 Peaceable secession! Peaceable secession! The concurrent agreement of all the members of this great republic to separate! A voluntary separation, with alimony on one side and on the other. Why, what would be the result? Where is the line to be drawn?...  Great American Legislators: Source Extracts - Page 82by Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Statesmen - 1902 - 338 pages
...sharpness of a personal grief which was almost agonizing. When, in the 7th of March speech, he cried out, " What States are to secede ? What is to remain American ? What am I to be ?" a political opponent said the tone of the last question made him shudder as if some dire calamity... | |
 | Elizabeth Armstrong Reed - Biography & Autobiography - 1903 - 190 pages
...of all the members of this great republic to separate! "A voluntary separation, with alimony on the one side and on the other. Why, what would be the...longer? Where is the flag of the republic to remain? Where is the eagle still to tower? or is he to cower, and sink, and fall to the ground? "Why, sir,... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1905 - 596 pages
...secession ! The concurrent agreement of all the members of this great republic to separate ! . . . Why, what would be the result ? Where is the line...longer? Where is the flag of the republic to remain ? Where is the eagle still to tower ? or is he to cower, and shriek, and fall to the ground ? Why,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1903 - 354 pages
...concurrent agreement of all the members of this great republic to separate ! A voluntary separation, with alimony on one side and on the other. Why, what would...American ? What am I to be ? An American no longer ? Am I to become a sectional man, a local man, a separatist, with no country in common with the gentlemen... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 464 pages
...concurrent agreement of all the members of this great Republic to separate! A voluntary separation, with alimony on one side and on the other. Why, what would...American? What am I to be? An American no longer? Am I to become a sectional man, a local man, a separatist, with no country in common with the gentlemen... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Oratory - 1903 - 278 pages
...a personal grief which was almost agonizing. When, in the seventh of March speech, he cried out, " What states are to secede ? What is to remain American ? What am I to be ? " a political opponent said the tone of the last question made him shudder as if some dire calamity... | |
 | Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener - United States - 1905 - 560 pages
...secession ! The concurrent agreement of all the members of this great republic to separate ! . . . Why, what would be the result ? Where is the line...longer? Where is the flag of the republic to remain ? Where is the eagle still to tower ? or is he to cower, and shriek, and fall to the ground ? Why,... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1910 - 778 pages
...of all the members of this great Republic to separate! A voluntary separation, with alimony on the one side and on the other ! Why, what would be the...drawn? What States are to secede? What is to remain America? What am I to be? An American no • longer ? Am I to become a sectional man, a local man,... | |
 | Arthur Edward Phillips - Elocution - 1909 - 394 pages
...— I see that disruption must produce such a war as I will not describe in its twofold characters. the line to be drawn? What states are to secede? What...longer ? Where is the flag of the Republic to remain ? Where is the eagle still to tower? or is he to cower, and shrink, and fall to the ground? WThy, sir,... | |
 | United States - 1910 - 604 pages
...7th of March speech in the great passage on "peaceable secession, " he cried out in agony of spirit : What States are to secede? What is to remain American? What am I to be? An American no longer? Am I to become a sectional man, a local man, a separatist, with no country in common with the gentlemen... | |
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