 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
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 632 pages
...territorial government for New Mexico, I would not vote to put any prohibition into it whatever ... 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. I would put into it... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 634 pages
...territorial government for New Mexico, I would not vote to put any prohibition into it whatever ... 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. I would put into it... | |
 | James Zachariah George, William Hayne Leavell - African Americans - 1915 - 388 pages
...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 in no Wilmot proviso, for the mere purpose of a taunt and of a reproach." Yet for a mere... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - Cotton growing - 1916 - 474 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 reenact the will of God." In short, Webster answered Calhoun's political explication of the growth of divergence between the... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 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 reenact 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 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 reenact 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... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1917 - 718 pages
...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... | |
 | Frank Bergen - 1918 - 68 pages
...exclude slavery, he said, "would be idle as it respects any effect it would have upon the territory, and I would not take pains uselessly to re-affirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the will of God. " It has been said that Webster was in error when he declared that nature had barred slavery from New... | |
 | Frank Bergen - 1918 - 78 pages
...exclude slavery, he said, "would be idle as it respects any effect it would have upon the territory, and I would not take pains uselessly to re-affirm an ordinance of nature, nor to reenact the will of God. ' ' It has been said that Webster was in error when he declared that nature had barred slavery from... | |
 | John Holladay Latané - United States - 1918 - 702 pages
...strength beyond all terms of human enactment, that slavery cannot exist in California and New Mexico. ... 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 reproach." As regards fugitive... | |
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