 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.  The True History of the Missouri Compromise and Its Repeal - Стр. 291авторы: Susan Bullitt Dixon ("Mrs. Archibald Dixon, ") - 1899 - Страниц: 623Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1981 - Страниц: 340
...concluding that the Proviso game had ceased to be worth the candle. The law of nature, he declared, "settles forever, with a strength beyond all terms of human enactment, that slavery cannot exist in California or New Mexico." This was a line of argument frequently used by supporters... | |
 | Robert A. Trendel - 1981 - Страниц: 453
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 | Maurice Glen Baxter - 1984 - Страниц: 676
...he addressed the issues before the Senate. With respect to California and New Mexico, he asserted, "I hold slavery to be excluded from those territories...superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas [where he would leave it untouched]. I mean the law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the... | |
 | Donald Davidson - 1938 - Страниц: 394
...excluded from the western territories "by a law superior to that which sanctions it in Texas . . . the law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth." Stephen A. Douglas made the same point in his debate with Lincoln. It would be more nearly correct... | |
 | D. W. Meinig - 1986 - Страниц: 662
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 | Lucy Maynard Salmon - 2001 - Страниц: 290
...Webster said in the United States Senate that slavery had been excluded from California and New Mexico by the law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth, and that he would not through the Wilmot Proviso take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature... | |
 | H. W. Brands - 2002 - Страниц: 547
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