 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
 | Dunbar Rowland - Mississippi - 1907 - 1030 pages
...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 - History - 1908 - 1018 pages
...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,... | |
 | United States - 1908 - 796 pages
...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 - United States - 1909 - 512 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Allen Butler - History - 1911 - 514 pages
...apply to any part of it the restrictions of the "Wilmot Proviso" would be an idle thing; and he said, "I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature nor to reenact the will of God. I would put in no 'Wilmot Proviso' for the mere purpose of a taunt or a reproach." Mr. Webster then... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Claude Halstead Van Tyne - United States - 1911 - 534 pages
...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 " ;... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - History - 1913 - 228 pages
...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,... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 436 pages
...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. I would put into it... | |
 | William MacDonald - United States - 1913 - 266 pages
...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,... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1914 - 454 pages
...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... | |
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