Does the expression, "a fire bell in the night," sound familiar? It is attributed to Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Senator John Holmes, as he contemplated the expansion of slavery into Missouri, 40 years before the beginning of the Civil War.
Jefferson continued, "I am now to die in the belief the useless sacrifice of themselves…
Does the expression, "a fire bell in the night," sound familiar? It is attributed to Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Senator John Holmes, as he contemplated the expansion of slavery into Missouri, 40 years before the beginning of the Civil War.
Jefferson continued, "I am now to die in the belief the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776 . . . is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it."
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Does the expression, "a fire bell in the night," sound familiar? It is attributed to Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Senator John Holmes, as he contemplated the expansion of slavery into Missouri, 40 years before the beginning of the Civil War.
Jefferson continued, "I am now to die in the belief the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776 . . . is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it."
Source: U of Virginia Library
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