 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 656 strani
...be profitable there, and he summed up his principles in the striking phrase, "I would not take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of nature nor to reenact the will of God." Perhaps there was some danger to the Union: the Virginia legislature voted for "determined resistance... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 644 strani
...profitable there, and he summed up his principles in the striking phrase, " I would not take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of nature nor to reenact the will of God." Perhaps there was some danger to the Union : the Virginia legislature voted for " determined resistance... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 766 strani
...probable that slavery would ever be introduced there. " I would not, therefore," he said, " take the pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature nor to reenact the will of God " when its only practical effect would be the irritation of the slaveholders of the South. If such... | |
 | George Pierce Garrison - 1906 - 394 strani
...words, upon the framing of a territorial government for New Mexico, he said : " 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." As to the return of... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - 1907 - 742 strani
...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....re-enact the will of God. I would put in no Wilmot Provieo for the mere purpose of a taunt or a reproach; I would put into it no evidence of the votes... | |
 | Dunbar Rowland - 1907 - 1030 strani
...that there was disdain in Webster's lordly dictum regarding yielding them the deserts of New Mexico ; "I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of Nature, nor to re-enact the will of God." Meanwhile, many newspapers in the State declared for secession. "Upon the adjournment of congress the... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1908 - 1018 strani
...exclude slavery by law from California and New Mexico, as the laws of nature had already done this. " I would not take pains, uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the will of God." He also declared that the North had lacked in its duty to the South in the matter of runaway slaves,... | |
 | 1908 - 796 strani
...it in Texas. I mean the law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth. I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the law of God. I would put in no Wilmot proviso for the mere purpose of a law or a reproach." Let me anticipate... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 544 strani
...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,... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - 512 strani
...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 reenact the will of God. And I would put in no Wilmot proviso, for the purpose of a taunt or a reproach 32. Bla1r and Rives,... | |
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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. 
