...will end by breaking into their simple units ..." Again, Jefferson refers to a possible civil war. "The coincidence of a marked principle, moral and...political, with a geographical line, once conceived, I fear, would never more be obliterated from the mind. Are we then to see again Athenian and Lacedaemonian...

...nothing, because it existed in every State, and united them together by the fraternism of party. But the coincidence of a marked principle, moral and political,...irritations, until it would kindle such mutual and moral hatred, as to render separation preferable to eternal discord. I have been among the most sanguine...

...fraternism of party. But the coincidence of a marked principle moral and political with a geographic Ime, once conceived, I feared would never more be obliterated...hatred as to render separation preferable to eternal d'scord I have been among the most sanguine in believing that our Union would be of long duration....

...would never be obliterated ; the controversy thus stirred would recur again and again until it kindled "such mutual and mortal hatred as to render separation preferable to eternal discord." As for the cession of slave property no man would be more ready than he for any practical sacrifice...

...slavery, they linked "a marked principle, moral and political, with a geographical line," and that line, "once conceived, I feared would never more be obliterated from the mind."24 The projection of a line that threatened to reduce the southern states to a subordinate, minority...

...nothing, because it existed in every State, and united them together by the fraternism. of -early. But the coincidence of a marked principle, moral and political, with a geographical line, once considered, I feared would never more be obliterated fiom the mind ; that it would be recurring on...