 Now, as to California and New Mexico, I hold slavery to be excluded from those Territories by a law even superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas. I mean the law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth.  Thoughts - Side 156af Horace Mann - 1867 - 240 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 sider
...What is it then? Simply and exclusively this. Slavery is sufficiently excluded from those territories by " the law of nature, of physical geography, the...Mexico are Asiatic in their formation and scenery." Asiatic, forsooth ; — if he wanted a highly suggestive word and redolent of freedom only, why did... | |
 | 1850 - 676 sider
...What is it then ? Simply and exclusively this. Slavery is sufficiently excluded from those territories by " the law of nature, of physical geography, the...Mexico are Asiatic in their formation and scenery." Asiatic, forsooth ; — if he wanted a highly suggestive word and redolent of freedom only, why did... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1850 - 52 sider
...from those Territories by a law even superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas. I mean the law of nature — of physical geography — the law of the formation of the earth. That law settles forever, with a strength beyond all terms of human enactment, that slavery cannot... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1850 - 64 sider
...from those Territories by a law, even superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas. I mean the law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth. That law settles for ever, with a strength beyond all terms of human enactment, that slavery cannot... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 588 sider
...territorial government for Neio Mexico, I would not vote to put any prohibition into it whatever." (p. 44.) The reason given is, that slavery is already excluded...geography, the law of the formation of the earth." (p. 42.) "California and New Mexico are Asiatic in their formation and scenery. They are composed of... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 626 sider
...territorial government for New Mexico, I would not vole to put any prohibition into it what' ever." (p. 44.) The reason given is, that slavery is already excluded...geography, the law of the formation of the earth." (p. 42.) "California and New Mexico are Asiatic in their formation and scenery. They are composed of... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 568 sider
...from those territories by a law even superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas. I mean the law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth. That law settles for ever, with a strength beyond all terms of human enactment, that slavery cannot... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 592 sider
...servitude, (except for crime,) shall be forever prohibited," she should have said, " Whereas, by a law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth," "slavery cannot exist in California," therefore we will not " reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 588 sider
...servitude, (except for crime,) shall be forever prohibited," she should have said, " Whereas, by a law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth," "slavery cannot exist in California," therefore we will not " reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor... | |
 | Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - 1851 - 374 sider
...New Mexico, I would not vote for any prohibition into it whatever " ! And this, because Slavery was already excluded from California and New Mexico, by the law of nature and physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth ! And this immediately following an argument,... | |
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