A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway

Written By: Pat Buchanan  |  Posted: Friday, August 5th, 2011

            "Like a fire bell in the night," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, "this momentous question ... awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union."

            Jefferson was writing of the sudden resurgence of the slavery issue in the debate on Missouri's entry into the Union, as foreshadowing a civil war.

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