 Such a prohibition would be idle, as it respects any effect it would have upon the territory; and I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God.  History of the American Civil War - Page 30by John William Draper - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 780 pages
...whatever. Such a prohibition would be idle, as it respects any effect it would have upon the territory; and I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God. I would put in no Wilmot Proviso for the mere purpose of a taunt or a reproach. I would put into it... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1881 - 620 pages
...the mines and of the expectations which a large number of the slaveholders attached thereto; and i " I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the will of God." Even long after the civil war it has often been attempted to repel all attacks on Webster by the mere... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1881 - 620 pages
...of the mines and of the expectations which a large number of the slaveholders attached thereto; and •"I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to ret'nnct the will of God." Even long after the civil war it has often been attempted to repel all attacks... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - Constitutional history - 1881 - 626 pages
...of the mines and of the expectations which a large number of the slaveholders attached thereto; and '"I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reiinact the will of God." Even long after the civil war it has often been attempted to repel all attacks... | |
 | Harry Laurenz Wells - Butte County (Calif.) - 1882 - 430 pages
...one of those sentences that fasten themselves upon the memory of mankind : " I would not take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God." William H. Seward, then young in the senate, was found battling side by side with Webster, Clay, Bentuu,... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1883 - 412 pages
...would be a useless taunt and wanton insult to the South. The famous sentence in which he said that he " would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the will of God," was nothing but specious and brilliant rhetoric. It was perfectly easy to employ slaves in California,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston - 1887 - 332 pages
...Such a prohibition would be idle, as it respects any effect it would have upon the territory ; and I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God. I would put in no Wilmot proviso for the mere purpose of a taunt or a reproach. I would put into it... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - United States - 1889 - 816 pages
...whatever. Such a prohibition would be idle, as it respects any effect it would have upor the territory; and I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will 3Í God I would put in no Wilmot Proviso for the mere purpose of a taunt or a reproach. I would put... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1894 - 480 pages
...proviso would simply anger the South to no practical purpose. This view he summed up in the words, " I would not take pains uselessly to re-affirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God. I would put in no Wilmot proviso for the mere purpose of a taunt or reproach." Of this Mr. Rhodes says,... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - American literature - 1894 - 528 pages
...proviso would simply anger the South to no practical purpose. This view he summed up in the words, " I would not take pains uselessly to re-affirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God. I would put in no Wilmot proviso for the mere purpose of a taunt or reproach." Of this Mr. Rhodes says,... | |
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