 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
 | Enoch Walter Sikes, William Morse Keener - United States - 1905 - 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.... | |
 | Albert Phelps - Louisiana - 1905 - 438 pages
...inconsiderate enmity were hurrying the country to civil war. " Secession ! Peaceable secession!" he said. " Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without a convulsion ! . . . Sir, nobody can look over the face... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 pages
...North and not on the South." Three days later, Webster, advocating the proposed Compromise, exclaimed: "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... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 pages
...North and not on the South." Three days later, Webster, advocating the proposed Compromise, exclaimed: "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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English literature - 1906 - 242 pages
...the 7th of March, fixing his big, blazing eyes full on the Southern members, he spoke these words: " Peaceable secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. Who is so 10 foolish — I beg everybody's pardon — as to expect to see any such thing? There can... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 768 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.... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1910 - 778 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... | |
 | Arthur Edward Phillips - Elocution - 1909 - 394 pages
...made Ireland rich? Has it made Ireland loyal? Has it made Ireland free?"] 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... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1910 - 774 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,' especially when it falb from the lips of those who are patriotic, and known to the country and known all over the world,... | |
 | Hannis Taylor - Constitutional history - 1911 - 738 pages
...should part in peace, tell us so, and we shall know what to do." Three days later Webster exclaimed: "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... | |
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