 Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every...  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Page 1801834Full view - About this book
 | Kenneth M. Stampp - History - 1981 - 342 pages
...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 to what was at that time the most persuasive appeal: "Is there doubt whether... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...loyalty to the union; they should "seek its preservation with jealous anxiety," indignantly frowning upon "the first dawning of every attempt to alienate...country 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... | |
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