 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1894 - 408 pages
...for the settlement of difficulties with Mexico by a purchase of territory. It stipulated •• that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory." This proviso passed the House, but was defeated in the Senate. Its principle, however, was affirmed... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1896 - 812 pages
...the following amendment : " Provided, That as an express fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated betwecn them, and to the use by the executive of the moneys herein appropriated,... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Biography & Autobiography - 1898 - 424 pages
...express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the said territory," which was adopted in the House, but rejected in the Senate. Soon it became a battle-cry... | |
 | Susan Bullitt Dixon ("Mrs. Archibald Dixon, ") - Missouri compromise - 1899 - 654 pages
...the twomillion bill.1 "Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated,... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless - Pennsylvania - 1900 - 456 pages
...acquisition of fresh territory if it were secured against slavery, and offered a resolution that ' ' neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever...exist in any part of said territory except for crime." The " Wilmot proviso" became for the time being the rallying cry of the free party of the North. It... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 pages
...amendment, on August 8, 1846: Provided, That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to be used by the executive of moneys herein appropriated,... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 288 pages
...amendment, on August 8, 1846: Provided, That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to be used by the executive of moneys herein appropriated,... | |
 | Bookbinding - 1900 - 308 pages
...Wilmot of Pennsylvania moved as an addition to every Bill which affected United States territory, ' That neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the said territory ;' and it is evident that his condemnation of the system, on moral grounds as a... | |
 | Henry Ketcham - Presidents - 1901 - 516 pages
...condition to the acquisition of any territory from the republic of Mexico by the United States . . . neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the said territory." By reason of amendments, this subject came before the house very many times, and... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 598 pages
...Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, provided as one of the conditions of this cession that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of this Territory, except for the punishment of crime." Notwithstanding the lenient policy and the wisdom... | |
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Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein... 
