 | Government publications - 1989 - 90 pages
...schoolchildren 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...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,... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be,... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - United States - 2007 - 196 pages
...the 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...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be,... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...Daniel Webster delivered these words in his second speech on Foote's Resolution, January 26, 1830: When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States disevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be,... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 830 pages
...prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be,... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day, at least, that curtain...may not rise. God grant, that on my vision never may he opened what lies hehind. When my eyes shall he turned to hehold, for the last time, the sun in heaven,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...Union should be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it shall be broken up and destroyed. While the Union lasts, we...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be,... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 416 pages
...of his reply to Hayne have come ringing down the years, and stand unequalled as sheer eloquence : " When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds or drenched, it may be,... | |
 | Glenn M. Linden - History - 2001 - 280 pages
...and inviolable Union. Daniel Webster stated this article of faith eloquently in 1830 when he said: "When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ... let her last feeble and lingering gleams rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 476 pages
...prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that, in my day, at least, that curtain...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union, on States 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 drenched,... 
