 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 130 pages
...when it shall be broken up and destroyed. While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children....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,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...when it should be broken up and destroyed. While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children....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,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that, I seek not to penetrate the vail. God grant, that in my day, at least, that curtain...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,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...ante-rooms and stairways, as he pronounced in deepest tones of pathos these words of solemn significance : ' 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,... | |
 | Readers - 1853 - 458 pages
...spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond tiiat I seek not to penetrate the veil, trod grant that, in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise. God grant, that oil my vision never may be opened what lies behind. When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Common Council - Cabinet officers - 1853 - 282 pages
...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes," he said, on that great occasion, " are 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,... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1853 - 714 pages
...enemies might profit by his example. His efforts were successful. His prayer was: " When my eyes shall bo 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,... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1853 - 748 pages
...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes," he said, on that great occasion, " are turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not sec him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered,... | |
 | United States. Congress (32nd, 2nd session : 1852-1853) - 1853 - 102 pages
...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes," he said on that great occasion, " are turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, -may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered,... | |
 | United States. Congress (32nd, 2nd session : 1852-1853) - 1853 - 94 pages
...rather, which could withstand their united power. " When my eyes/' he said on that great occasion, " are turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered,... | |
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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... 
