Thomas Jefferson Quote

But this momentous question [the Missouri Compromise], like a firebell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it the knell of the Union.


letter to John Holmes, 22 April 1820


But this momentous question [the Missouri Compromise], like a firebell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it the knell of...

But this momentous question [the Missouri Compromise], like a firebell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it the knell of...

But this momentous question [the Missouri Compromise], like a firebell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it the knell of...

But this momentous question [the Missouri Compromise], like a firebell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it the knell of...