 | Melvin Johnson White - 1910 - 130 páginas
...American." He spoke for the preservation of the Union. Nature had excluded slavery from the acquired territory, and "I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of 44. Cong. Globe, 31 Cong., 1 Sess., Appendix, pp. 115-127. 45. Ibid, pp. 451-455. 46. Discourse on... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1911 - 534 páginas
...the plantation with its slave system could never thrive. " I would not," he declared, " take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of nature nor to reenact the will of God." In a word, nature had forbidden slavery there, why should man? 630. Seward and the " Higher Law " ;... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 436 páginas
...territorial government for New Mexico, I would not vote to put any prohibition into it whatever. The use of such a prohibition would be idle as it respects any...have upon the Territory, and I would not take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the will of God. And I would put in no Wilmot proviso... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1913 - 228 páginas
...such prohibition was unnecessary as the territory was not adapted to slavery. "I would not," he said, "take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the will of God."1 The South obtained a more stringent Fugitive Slave Law. Most of the negroes yearned for freedom,... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1913 - 266 páginas
...natural laws of soil and climate, he saw no reason for excluding it by statute. "I would not take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the will of God. And I would put in no Wilmot Proviso, for the purpose of a taunt or a reproach. " The South, he thought,... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1914 - 786 páginas
...that, if a resolution or a bill were now before us, to provide a territorial government for New Mexico, I would not vote to put any prohibition into it whatever....and I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordi.•jance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God. I would put in no Wilmot Proviso for the... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1914 - 454 páginas
...Webster," Vol. V, pp. 325-326 ; " Writings and Speeches," Vol. X, pp. 57-58. would not " take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of Nature, nor to reenact the will of God," — that he would " put in 110 Wilmot proviso, for the purpose of a taunt or a reproach." The "criminations... | |
 | James Zachariah George, William Hayne Leavell - 1915 - 388 páginas
...question forever." Speaking of the Wilmot proviso, he declared that "such a proviso would be idle as respects any effect it would have upon the Territory, and I would not take the pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the will of God. I would put... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - 1916 - 474 páginas
...that, if a resolution or a bill were now before us, to provide a territorial government for New Mexico, I would not vote to put any prohibition into it whatever....ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the will of God." In short, Webster answered Calhoun's political explication of the growth of divergence between the... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1917 - 718 páginas
...Mexico because he was sure that it could never flourish there. As he put it, "I would not take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of nature nor to reenact the will of God." Compromise of 1850 353 Northern senators like Salmon P. Chase of Ohio scouted the idea that the Union... | |
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The use of such a prohibition would be idle, as it respects any effect it would have upon the territory ; and I would not take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God. 
