History of the United States I / Unit 11 USH1 1521 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Jefferson's Fire Bell
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The idea
Jefferson wrote in April eighteen twenty that the crisis came like a fire bell in the night, and awakened and filled him with terror.
In practice
The former president calling it the knell of the Union.
Where people slip
He warned that a geographical line, once held up to the angry passions of men, would never be obliterated, and every new irritation would mark it deeper.
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