 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.  The Principles of Argumentation - Halaman 31oleh George Pierce Baker, Henry Barrett Huntington - 1905 - 677 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 halaman
...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 - 1881 - 620 halaman
...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... | |
 | Harry Laurenz Wells - 1882 - 430 halaman
...antagonist, uttered 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 - 396 halaman
...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 halaman
...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... | |
 | 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 - 1894 - 480 halaman
...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 - 1894 - 528 halaman
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1896 - 452 halaman
...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... | |
 | Susan Bullitt Dixon ("Mrs. Archibald Dixon, ") - 1899 - 654 halaman
...prohibition would be idle, as it respects any effect it would have upon the Territory ; and I would not take pains to re-affirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God. And I would put in no Wilmot Proviso, for the purpose of a taunt or a reproach. "Mr. President, in... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1899 - 548 halaman
...Proviso ; and he relentlessly followed out, point by point, Webster's declaration " that he would not take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of Nature, nor to reenact the will of God." " Sir," exclaimed Chase, " I should like to know what laws we are to reenact if we are not to reenact... | |
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