 | George Punchard - 1881 - 744 pages
...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 pages
...slavery from the Northwest Territories. (Webster's works, vol. 3, page 263.) " I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1887 - 734 pages
...law-givers of anquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus; but I doubt whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaps, while the Ohio... | |
 | Alexander Pope Humphrey - 1884 - 36 pages
...to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus, but I doubt whether one single law of any law giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct,...and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaps, while the Ohio... | |
 | 1890 - 726 pages
...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... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1885 - 606 pages
...The side of Jefl'erson is best supported by Hon. Edward Coles, a Virginian, at one time Governor of single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." This Ordinance is an exhibition of national sovereignty on the grandest scale, yet there was no authority... | |
 | Ohio University - 1885 - 118 pages
...shall fot ever be encomaged." This ordinance, of which Mr. Webster said in 1830, "I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...of more distinct, marked, and lasting character," was passed July 13, 1787. On the I7th, Dr. Cutler returned from Philadelphia, where he had spent a... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1885 - 126 pages
...point of fact belongs to neither party, but to both. The side of Jefferson is best supported cient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct,...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." This Ordinance is an exhibition of national sovereignty on the grandest scale, yet there was no authority... | |
 | 1886 - 996 pages
...In the language of Webster, already quoted, this series of ankles will close : "I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has...and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see them, perhaps, while the Ohio... | |
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I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. 
