 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
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - Cotton growing - 1916 - 474 pages
...near the close, when, referring to Calhoun's suggestion of peaceable secession, Webster exclaimed : "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... | |
 | Elijah Robinson Kennedy - Lawyers - 1924 - 292 pages
...independent, free labor of the North?" Mr. Webster then launched into a fervid deprecation of secession : " 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 foundation of the... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1928 - 734 pages
...needlessly compromised with his convictions, but to Webster it meant more than that, it meant Civil War. "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... | |
 | Herbert Raymond Mayes - Authors, American - 1928 - 274 pages
...speeches. Parts of them he declaimed for the boys of the lodging house, and this was his favorite passage : "Secession! Peaceable secession! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsions! The breaking up of the fountains of the... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Presidents - 1928 - 782 pages
...of manner, and majesty of bearing, Webster swept on. 'Secession! Peaceable secession!' he exclaimed. '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... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 772 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... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 758 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.... | |
 | Paul C. Nagel - Federal government - 1964 - 342 pages
...because these references came from world-renowned patriots. Rejecting peaceful dismemberment, he said, "Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle." He attacked the idea in much the same way as some colleagues earlier had pronounced the notion insane.... | |
 | Lincoln County (Mo.) - 1888 - 662 pages
...and prophetic warning: — "I hear with pain, anguish and distress the words secession; pe aceable 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... | |
 | C. C. Goen - History - 1985 - 216 pages
...[political] result." Webster traced other signs of widening cleavage between North and South, and then cried: 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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