| Robert Samuel Rantoul - 1881 - 690 Seiten
...constitution of these new Northwestern Slates lies the celebrated Ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, Sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity; we help to perpetuate...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts. It was adopted,... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1881 - 578 Seiten
...constitution of these new Northwestern States lies the celebrated Ordinance of 1787. We are accustomed, Sir, to praise the lawgivers of antiquity ; we help to...marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1767. That instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now a citizen of Massachusetts. It \v as adopted,... | |
| Gail Hamilton - 1881 - 358 Seiten
...territory and consecrated it for ever to liberty and light. Of this ordinance Daniel Webster said: "I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." Judge Walker said : '-' It approaches as nearly to absolute perfection as anything to be found in the... | |
| George Punchard - 1881 - 744 Seiten
...Northwest of the River Ohio." • Mr. Webster said of this ordinance : "I doubt whether one iingle law of any Lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more disiinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." Nathan Dane, of Beverly, Mass.,... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1883 - 240 Seiten
...resolution excluding slavery from the Northwest Territories. (Webster's works, vol. 3, page 263.) " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting a character than the Ordinance of 1 787. The instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane, then and now, a citizen... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1883 - 104 Seiten
...this ordinance Daniel Webster, in his great speech made in the United States Senate in 1830, said : "I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of a more distinct, marked, and lasting character." The third article of this celebrated ordinance declares... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1884 - 258 Seiten
...school purposes. Webster, referring to this great act of patriotism, remarks : " We are accustomed to praise the law-givers of antiquity ; we help to...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions northwest of the Ohio." This great... | |
| Alexander Pope Humphrey - 1884 - 36 Seiten
...Justice." Of the Ordinance it has been said by Webster. "We are accustomed to praise the law givers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon...Lycurgus, but I doubt whether one single law of any law giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character... | |
| 1890 - 726 Seiten
...to the territory northwest of the Ohio. Even thus shorn of half its strength, Webster said of it, " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of a more distinct, marked, or lasting character than the Ordinance of 1 787." The ordinance was as distinctly... | |
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