 I hear with distress and anguish the word " secession," especially when it falls from the lips of those who are patriotic, and known to the country, and known all over the world, for their political services. Secession ! Peaceable secession ! Sir, your...  Great American Legislators: Source Extracts - Page 82by Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster - Compromise of 1850 - 1850 - 52 pages
...distress, the word secession — especially 32 when it falls from the lips of those who are eminently patriotic, and known to the country, and known all...eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion ! The breaking up of the fountains of the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Compromise of 1850 - 1850 - 64 pages
...circumstances, such a dissolution was possible. ! I hear with pain, and anguish, and distress, the word j " secession," especially when it falls from the lips...to the country, and known : all over the world, for thtir political services. Secession ! Peaceable secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 568 pages
...body, that, in any case, under the pressure of any circumstances, such a dissolution was possible. I hear with distress and anguish the word " secession,"...eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion ! The breaking up of the fountains of the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 566 pages
...body, that, in any case, under the pressure of any circumstances, such a dissolution was possible. I hear with distress and anguish the word " secession,"...eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion ! The breaking up of the fountains of the... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...flight, unresisted and unopposed, to the rich regions of Oregon. LX.— SECESSION. DANIEL WEBSTER. SECESSION ! Peaceable Secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion ! The breaking up of the fountains of the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 568 pages
...body, that, in any case, under the pressure of any circumstances, such a dissolution was possible. I hear with distress and anguish the word " secession,"...Peaceable secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destiued to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion ! The breaking... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 554 pages
...and distress, the word secession, especially when it falls from the lips of those who are eminently patriotic, and known to the country, and known all...eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion ! The breaking up of the fountains of the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 560 pages
...of any circumstances, such a dissolution was possible. I hear with pain, and anguish, and distress, the word secession, especially when it falls from the lips of those who are eminently patriotic, and known to the country, and known all over the world, for their political services.... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...north. Mr. Webster expressed great pain at hearing secession spoken of as a possible event. Said he : " Secession ! Peaceable secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. Who is 30 foolish — I beg every body's pardon — as to expect to see any such thing? There could... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...any body that, in any case, under the pressure of any circumstances, such a dissolution was possible. I hear with distress and anguish the word " secession,"...eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion ! The breaking up of the fountains of the... | |
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