 Union at this incipient stage, I should deem that the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded. I proposed to him, however, to dine with me the next day, and I would invite another friend or...  Annual Report - Page 297by American Historical Association - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 pages
...the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded. I proposed to him, however, to dine with...was to save the Union. The discussion took place. 1 could take no part in it but an exhortatory one, because I was 448 a stranger to the circumstances... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 pages
...the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should he yielded. I proposed to him, however, to dine with...fail, by some mutual sacrifices of opinion, to form a compro* misc which was to save the Union. The discussion took place. I could take no part in it but... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1852 - 766 pages
...the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which, all partial and temporary evils should be yielded. I proposed to him, however, to dine with...was to save the Union. The discussion took place. 1 could take no part in it but an exhortatory one, because I was a stranger to the circumstances which... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 532 pages
...Hamilton should dine with him the next evening, and promised to invite another friend or two, thinking it " impossible that reasonable men, consulting together...form a compromise which was to save the Union." The meeting and the discussion took place, and it was finally decided that two of the Virginia members... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 466 pages
...Hamilton should dine with him the next evening, and promised to invite another friend or two, thinking it " impossible that reasonable men, consulting together...form a compromise which was to save the Union." The meeting and the discussion took place, and it was finally decided that two of the Virginia members... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1856 - 594 pages
...the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which, all partial and temporary evils should be yielded. I proposed to him, however, to dine with...and I would invite another friend or two, bring them in conference together, and I thought it impossible that reasonable men, consulting together cooly,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 822 pages
...the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded. I proposed to him, however, to dine with...consulting together coolly, could fail, by some mutual Bacrinost of opinion, to form a compromise which would aave the Union. The discussion took place. I... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 828 pages
...unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded. 1 proposed to him, however, to dine with me the next...consulting together coolly, could fail, by some mutual sucriflces of opinion, to form a compromise which would save the Union. The discussion took place.... | |
 | 1873 - 794 pages
...into conference together. I think it impossible that reasonable men, consulting together coolly, can fail, by some mutual sacrifices of opinion, to form a compromise which is to save the Union." The conference occurred. Jefferson, as usual with him on such occasions, did... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 710 pages
...consequences, ) avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded. I proposed to him, owever, to dine with me the next day, and I would invite another friend or two, ring them into conference together, and I thought it impossible that reasonable ion, consulting together... | |
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