 | Isaac William Stuart - 1836 - 234 pages
...destroyed, unless the moderate, the good and the wise unite to "frown indignantly upon the first dawnings of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country...from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together its various parts," Threats of resistance, secession, separation—have become common... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1836 - 66 pages
...Listening to the counsels of Washington, the democracy " frowns on the first attempt to alienate one portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together its various parts." It is the whigs of the South who " calculate the value of the... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - 1836 - 380 pages
...feelings. The last advice of our illustrious Washington was, " FROWN INDIGNANTLY ON THE FIRST DAWNINCS OF EVERY ATTEMPT TO ALIENATE ANY PORTION OF OUR COUNTRY FROM THE REST, OR ENFEEBLE THE SACRED TIES WHICH NOW LINK TOGETHER THE VARIOUS PARTS." ' Introduction of slavery. CONVERSATION... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 620 pages
...to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with...from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens,... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - 1864 - 640 pages
...jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be 5 abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first...country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties whi8h now link together the various parts." Are not these admonitions at the present moment peculiarly... | |
 | 1862 - 48 pages
...affectionately are we entreated to observe that unity of Government, which constitutes us one people ; " indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of the country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts."... | |
 | Kenneth M. Stampp - 1981 - 342 pages
...much of his Farewell Address to stressing the value of the Union. He urged his countrymen to reject "whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned" and to rebuke "every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest." Above all, he resorted... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 pages
...individual happiness; - that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; ... watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety;...frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt ... to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts (p. 219). The sacred national union... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...Americans must give utter loyalty to the union; they should "seek its preservation with jealous anxiety," indignantly frowning upon "the first dawning of every...from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the several parts." He continued, "Citizens by birth or choice of a common country... | |
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... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest... 
