 | George Punchard - Church history - 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 - History - 1883 - 240 pages
...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 - Government publications - 1883 - 104 pages
...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 - Education - 1884 - 258 pages
...to praise the law-givers of antiquity ; we help to perpetuate the fame of Solon and Lycurgus ; but I doubt whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787. It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions northwest... | |
 | United States - 1887 - 734 pages
...accustomed to praise the 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...effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences at this moment, and we shall never cease to see... | |
 | New England - 1890 - 726 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope Humphrey - Northwest, Old - 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, marked, and lasting character than the ordinance of 1787. We see its consequences this moment, and we shall never cease to see them,... | |
 | Ohio University - 1885 - 118 pages
...means of education shall fot ever be encomaged." This ordinance, of which Mr. Webster said in 1830, "I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient...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... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 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...effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787." This Ordinance is an exhibition of national sovereignty on the grandest... | |
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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. 
