 | William Smyth - 1855 - 590 pages
...may not rise ! God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my e3•es shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on... | |
 | William Smyth - 1855 - 588 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, the sun in heaven, may 1 not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments* of a once glorious union ; on states... | |
 | 1855 - 902 pages
...joins in the memorable aspiration of Webster, (in his reply to Hayne,) that when his " eyes should be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, he might not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments x>fa once glorious Union ; on States... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...that curtain mny 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,... | |
 | 1989 - 90 pages
...were required to memorize the closing lines of Daniel Webster's second reply to Robert Hayne: "When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union. . . . but every where, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds,... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - 1992 - 273 pages
...future, he spoke, as he had when a teenager himself, of "states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ... a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood," and like John Witherspoon a half-century before, he called instead for "Liberty and Union,... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 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...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,... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - 2007 - 196 pages
...right to nullify or set aside an act of Congress. The concluding words of Webster's speech were: When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, with fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign... | |
 | Jeffrey Jerome Cohen - 1996 - 331 pages
...dishonored fragments of a once-glorious Union . . . states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ... a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!" Instead, Webster urged loyalty to the "sentiment, dear to every true American heart — Liberty... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - 1997 - 830 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...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,... | |
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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... 
