...never may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their lost feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored...

...never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it mny be, in frntenial blood I Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gnrgeous...

...never may be opened what lies behind ! When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on states severed, discordant, belligerent ; or on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal...

...Webster's "integrity of heart and magnanimity of feeling" (v1, 7, 8, 14, 41, 46, 15). Hayne's methods mean "States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a...feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!" Webster's attitude leads instead to "the prosperity and honor of the whole country." Fortunately, the...

...Webster's second reply to Robert Hayne: "When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...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, now and...

...never may be opened what lies behind! When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full and high advanced,...

...concluding words of Webster's speech were: When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...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...

...Foote's Resolution, January 26, 1830: When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken...dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States disevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal...

...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 and...