 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
 | Frank Cummins Lockwood, Clarence De Witt Thorpe - Oratory - 1921 - 298 pages
...through into intensified utterance. Webster's burning query in his "seventh of March" speech — • "What states are to secede? What is to remain American? What am I to be?" which made some in the audience "shudder as if some dire calamity was at hand;" Patrick Henry's flaming... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - Elocution - 1927 - 790 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... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Presidents - 1928 - 780 pages
...its two-fold character* 'Peaceable secession! Peaceable secession! . . . What would be the result? What is to remain American? . . . What am I to be?.... . Where is the flag of the republic to remain?' Northern States under one government 'Calhoun. • Editorial in the Republic, clipped in Alexandria... | |
 | Herbert Raymond Mayes - Authors, American - 1928 - 274 pages
...convulsions! The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep without ruffling the surf ace I . . . Where is the line to be drawn? What States are to secede? What is to remain America? What am I to be? An American no longer? . . . Alger had another favorite passage, along with... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Presidents - 1928 - 784 pages
...its two-fold character.3 'Peaceable secession! Peaceable secession! . . . What would be the result? What is to remain American? . . . What am I to be? An American no longer? . . . Wrhere is the flag of the republic to remain?' Northern States under one government 1 Calhoun.... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - History - 1992 - 600 pages
...1850, when the threats of Southern secession became common, the old Daniel Webster anxiously asked: "Why, what would be the result? Where is the line...American? What am I to be? An American no longer?" It was his, and the others', very identity that was at stake. Everything was secondary to that. Rather... | |
 | Timothy B. Powell - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 240 pages
...articulate the magnitude of the issues at hand: "Peaceable secession! — peaceable secession! . . . Why, what would be the result? Where is the line to be drawn? . . . What is to remain American? What am I to be? An American no longer? . . . Heaven forbid!" In the concluding... | |
 | Ernest Pertwee - Self-Help - 2006 - 281 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 to...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... | |
 | Paul Calore - History - 2014 - 306 pages
...anxious over the loose talk of secession. "Peaceful secession!" he inquired, "What would be the results? Where is the line to be drawn? What states are to secede? What is to remain an American? What am I to be? An American no longer. Am I to become a sectional man, a local man, a... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 590 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...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 ? Why,... | |
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