...before Ohio, the first of the five states, was admitted into the Union. "I doubt," says Daniel Webster, "whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." Nothing could have been more emphatically an exercise of national sovereignty; yet, as Madison said,...

...before Ohio, the first of the five states, was admitted into the Union. "I doubt," says Daniel Webster, "whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient...marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of IT8T." Nothing could have been more^emphatically an exercise of national sovereignty ; yet^as Madison...

...foundations on which they might build mighty and prosperous commonwealths. Daniel Webster said that no one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern,...of more distinct, marked and lasting character than this ordinance. Of it Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States, wrote, " Never, probably...

...forever. Said Mr. Webster, in his first reply to Hayne, in the United States Senate, January 20, 1830: " We are accustomed to praise the law-givers of. antiquity....and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." And the purpose and pith of our eulogy turn chiefly on the interdiction of slavery embpdied in the...

...must be largely the results of the blending of those with which they were respectively familiar.3 1 " We are accustomed to praise the lawgivers of antiquity...marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787 ;" Webster, first speech on Foot's Resolution, Works, III, 263. 3Webster, Works, III, 264, 277 ff....

...of his greatest speeches, said: " We are accustomed, sir, to praise the law-givers of antiquity, and we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus;...marked, and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787 We sees its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them perhaps, while the Ohio...

...the celebrated Ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, sir, to praise the law-givers of antiquity, and we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts.1 It was adopted,...

...20, 1830: " We are accustomed to praise the law-givers of antiquity. We help to perpetuate the fair.e of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I doubt whether one single...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." And the purpose and pith of our eulogy turn chiefly on the interdiction of slavery embodied in the...

...fame of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modem, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaps, while the Ohio...

...the celebrated Ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, sir, to praise the law-givers of antiquity, and we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then aud now a citizen of Massachusetts.1 It was adopted,...