...may not rise ! God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my e3•es shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the...heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on...

...that curtain may not rise ! God grant, that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may 1 not see him shining on the broken and dishonoured fragments* of a once glorious union ; on states...

...joins in the memorable aspiration of Webster, (in his reply to Hayne,) that when his " eyes should be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, he might not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments x>fa once glorious Union ; on States...

...that curtain mny not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,...

...were required to memorize the closing lines of Daniel Webster's second reply to Robert Hayne: "When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union. . . . but every where, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds,...

...future, he spoke, as he had when a teenager himself, of "states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ... a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood," and like John Witherspoon a half-century before, he called instead for "Liberty and Union,...

...least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,...

...right to nullify or set aside an act of Congress. The concluding words of Webster's speech were: When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time,...land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, with fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign...

...dishonored fragments of a once-glorious Union . . . states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ... a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!" Instead, Webster urged loyalty to the "sentiment, dear to every true American heart — Liberty...

...least, that curtain may not rise! God grant that on my vision never may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time...civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic,...