Ap Enlgish Language Exam
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This passage is adapted from Daniel Webster's "The Seventh of March Speech," given on March 7, 1850.
Mr. President, I should much prefer to have heard from every member on this floor declarations of opinion that this
Union could never be dissolved, than the declaration of opinion by any body, that, in any case, under the pressure of any
(5) circumstances, such a dissolution was possible. I hear with distress and anguish the word "secession," especially when it falls from the lips of those who are patriotic, and known to the country, and known all over the world, for their political services.
Secession! Peaceable secession! Sir, your eyes and mine are never
(10) destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion! The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep without ruffling the surface! Who is so foolish,
I beg everybody's pardon, as to expect to see any such thing? Sir, he who sees these States, now revolving in harmony around a
(15) common centre, and expects to see them quit their places and fly off without convulsion, may look the next hour to see heavenly bodies rush from their spheres, and jostle against each other in the realms of space, without causing the wreck of the universe.
There can be no such thing as peaceable secession. Peaceable
(20) secession is an utter impossibility. Is the great Constitution under which we live, covering this whole country, is it to be thawed and melted away by secession, as the snows on the mountain melt under the influence of a vernal sun, disappear almost unobserved, and run off? No, Sir! No, Sir! I will not state what might produce the disruption
(25) of the Union; but, Sir, I see as plainly as I see the sun in heaven what
Practice Quiz
Top of Form
Questions 1-10
This passage is adapted from Daniel Webster's "The Seventh of March Speech," given on March 7, 1850.
Mr. President, I should much prefer to have heard from every member on this floor declarations of opinion that this
Union could never be dissolved, than the declaration of opinion by any body, that, in any case, under the pressure of any
(5) circumstances, such a dissolution was possible. I hear with distress and anguish the word "secession," especially when it falls from the lips of those who are patriotic, and known to the country, and known all over the world, for their political services.
Secession! Peaceable secession! Sir, your eyes and mine are never
(10) destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion! The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep without ruffling the surface! Who is so foolish,
I beg everybody's pardon, as to expect to see any such thing? Sir, he who sees these States, now revolving in harmony around a
(15) common centre, and expects to see them quit their places and fly off without convulsion, may look the next hour to see heavenly bodies rush from their spheres, and jostle against each other in the realms of space, without causing the wreck of the universe.
There can be no such thing as peaceable secession. Peaceable
(20) secession is an utter impossibility. Is the great Constitution under which we live, covering this whole country, is it to be thawed and melted away by secession, as the snows on the mountain melt under the influence of a vernal sun, disappear almost unobserved, and run off? No, Sir! No, Sir! I will not state what might produce the disruption
(25) of the Union; but, Sir, I see as plainly as I see the sun in heaven what