 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
 | Alexander Johnston - 1887 - 332 pages
...anybody, 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... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 pages
...anybody, 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... | |
 | Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker - Readers - 1889 - 120 pages
...another day, I'll find my highest happiness In a less selfish way. HKP PEACEABLE SECESSION. 0 ECESSION ! 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... | |
 | Jerome Cyril Knowlton, James Burrill Angell, Levi Thomas Griffin - 1891 - 36 pages
...March 7, 1850, was being read and re-read by every citizen North and South. Those prophetic words, " Secession ! Peaceable Secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle," were ringing in the ears of an entire people. It is not strange that a young and receptive mind, educated... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - United States - 1891 - 482 pages
...; none at all. . . . Sir, ... I hear with pain, and anguish and distress the word secession. . . . Secession ! Peaceable secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. Where is the line to be drawn ? . . . What is to remain American ? . . . Where is the flag of the Kepublic... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 460 pages
...anybody, 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 450 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 614 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 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 tc the country, and known all over the world, for their political services.... | |
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