 | United States - 1850 - 616 pages
...well-known and dignified address : " 1 have, senators, believed from the first that the agitation on the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion ;" and it closes with the solemn declaration : " I have now, senators, done rny duty, in expressing... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 608 pages
...well-known and dignified address: "1 have, senators, believed from the first that the agitation on the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and eflective measure, end in disunion ;" and it closes with the solemn declaration : " I have now, senators,... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1851 - 544 pages
...by his colleague, Judge Butler, on the 4th day of March, 1850: — SPEECH ON THE SLAVERY OUESTION. I have, Senators, believed from the first, that the...some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have, on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention of both... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 648 pages
...read his remarks. The honorable gentleman then read Mr. OALnoru's remarks as follows : Mr. CALHOUN. I have, Senators, believed from the first that the...some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention of each... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1858 - 800 pages
...speech, which was read for him (March 4, 1849) by another senator. He declared in tins speech his belief from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timetouN ive measure, end in disunion. It had, however, gone o: palpably in danger. Tl !ie union b-... | |
 | 1861 - 458 pages
...great speech, delivered March 4, 1850, a few days before his death, opened with the words, " I have believed from the first that the agitation of the...some timely and effective measure, end in disunion." And he went on to say: "If something is not done to avert it, the South will be forced to choose between... | |
 | James Williams (American diplomat.) - Presidents - 1863 - 448 pages
...from. Mr. Calhoun's last Speech in the Senate — Year 1850. I have believed from the first, senators, that the agitation of the subject of slavery would,...some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion I have, on all proper occasions, endeavoured to call the attention of each... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1863 - 642 pages
...read his remarks. The honorable gentleman then read Mr. GALIIOUN'S remarks as follows : Mr. CALHOUN. I have, Senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of shivery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1865 - 1244 pages
...Government. In March, 1830, John C. Calhoun declared, in the Senate of the United States', that he had believed from the first that " the agitation of the...prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in the dissolution of the Union." His prediction was verified. The " agitation" of so important an institution... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1874 - 604 pages
...the constitution gives us. SPEECH Oa the Slavery Question, delivered in the Senate, March 4th, 1850. I HAVE, Senators, believed from the first that the...some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have, on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention of both... | |
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I HAVE, Senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. 
