 | Earl Browder - Communism - 1925 - 774 pages
...Commenting on this conflict over slavery Jefferson from his place of retirement at Monticello. wrote: "This momentous question, like a firebell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I conslddered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment. But this is a... | |
 | American essays - 1873 - 800 pages
...but blind to the path immediately before him. " This momentous question," he wrote in April, 1820, "like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror." He thought it was " the knell of the Union." Since Bunker Hill, he said, we had never had so ominous... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - History - 1971 - 1530 pages
...Letter to John Holmes, 1820 But this momentous question [the Missouri Compromise], like a (irebell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. ner at Baltimore. The Texas Republican published in Nacogdoches is first Englishlanguage Texan newspaper.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - History - 1989 - 946 pages
...time ceased to read newspapers, or to pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to...am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened, and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 624 pages
...Jefferson had written of slavery in tones of dire prophecy: "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once the knell of the FIGURE 59 *•• Matthew Brady, photograph of James Russell Lowell. Lowell was thirty-eight... | |
 | Melton Alonza McLaurin - Social Science - 1991 - 168 pages
...volume." In the South, an aging Thomas Jefferson wrote that the Missouri controversy "like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it the death knell of the Union." Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Morril, William Hunter, and others... | |
 | Shearer Davis Bowman - History - 1993 - 374 pages
...division between free and slave states. The "Missouri question" sparked fierce congressional debate that, "like a firebell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror," wrote Jefferson in 1820 from retirement at Monticello. The controversy seemed to signify "the death... | |
 | Norman K. Risjord - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 228 pages
...permanently divided. "This momentous question," he wrote, referring to the controversy, "like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror....considered it at once as the knell of the Union." The criticism from the North also made him more defensive about slavery. He still favored emancipation... | |
 | Conrad Cherry - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...ago with such startling emphasis: "I had ceased," writes he, "to pay any attention to public affairs, content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore...which I am not distant. But this momentous question (the Missouri controversy) like afire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...Holmes of April z2, 18zo. As Jefferson's words filled the Senate sanctuary, the galleries fell silent. This momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I consider it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a... | |
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But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. 
