 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 pages
...borrow the brilliant apostrophe of the gentleman from Massachusetts, if he will permit me; and " when my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of" the constitution of my country, once the xgis of our rights and the palladium of our liberty; but let... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 pages
...that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous Ensign of the Republic,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pages
...may be opened what lies behind. — When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, fhe sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! — Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - 1830 - 484 pages
...least, that curtain may not rise. God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerant; on... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 692 pages
...borrow the brilliant apostrophe of the gentleman from Massachusetts, if he will permit me; and *' when my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not sec him shining- on the broken and dishonored fragments of" the constitution of my country, once the... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1831 - 248 pages
...that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my 14* vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood !—Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 pages
...that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pages
...that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...that curtain may not rise ; God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1832 - 916 pages
...that curtain may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on Stales dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be,... | |
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When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or... 
