 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1858 - 698 pages
...sometimes been controverted: — " When I drew the Ordinance, (which passed, a few words exccpted, as I originally formed it,) I had no idea the States...draft; but finding the House favorably disposed on the subject, after we had completed the other parts, I moved the article, which was agreed to without... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1860 - 694 pages
...Mr. Dane's letter to Mr. King is decisive of the point which has sometimes been controverted : — " When I drew the Ordinance, (which passed, a few words...draft; but finding the House favorably disposed on the subject, after we had completed the other parts, I moved the article, which was agreed to without... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1863 - 700 pages
...Mr. Dane's letter to Mr. King is decisive of the point which has sometimes been controverted: — " When I drew the Ordinance, (which passed, a few words...draft; but finding the House favorably disposed on the subject, after we had completed the other parts, I moved the article, which was agreed to without... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1876 - 494 pages
...that clause ? In the letter he wrote to Rufus King, July 16, three days after the passage, he says : " When I drew the Ordinance, which passed, a few words...draft ; but, finding the House favorably disposed on the subject, after we had completed the other parts, I moved the article, which was agreed to without... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1876 - 256 pages
...that clause ? In the letter he wrote to Rufus King, July 16, three days after the passage, he says : " When I drew the Ordinance, which passed, a few words...draft; but, finding the House favorably disposed on the subject, after we had completed the other parts, I moved the article, which was agreed to without... | |
 | James Breckinridge Waller - Enslaved persons - 1880 - 104 pages
...its adoption he wrote to Mr. Rufus King, saying: "I had no idea the states w'ould agree to the 6th Article, prohibiting slavery, as only Massachusetts...draft, but finding the House favorably disposed on the subject, after we had completed the other parts, I moved the Article, which was agreed to without... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair, William Henry Smith - Indians of North America - 1881 - 644 pages
...says : " When I drew the ordinance, which passed, a few words excepfed, as I originally formed it,2 I had no idea the States would agree to the Sixth...draft; but, finding the House favorably disposed on the .subject, after we had completed the other parts, I moved the article, which was the Ordinance... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair, William Henry Smith - Indians of North America - 1881 - 638 pages
...moral philosophy, with the venerable Dr. Franklin, when that article was drafted. Mr. Dane says : " When I drew the ordinance, which passed, a few words excepted, as I originally formed it,2 I had no idea the States would agree to the Sixth Article, prohibiting slavery, as only Massachusetts... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair, William Henry Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 648 pages
...moral philosophy, with the venerable Dr. Franklin, when that article was drafted. Mr. Dane says: " When I drew the ordinance, which passed, a few words excepted, as I originally formed it, 2 I had no idea the States would agree to the Sixth Article, prohibiting slavery, as only Massachusetts... | |
 | Ohio - 1905 - 534 pages
...passed as I originally formed it, a few words excepted) I had no idea the states would agree to the Vlth Article, prohibiting slavery, as only Massachusetts...was present ; and therefore omitted it in the draft. Rut finding the House favorably disposed on this subject, after we had completed the other parts, I... | |
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When I drew the ordinance (which passed, a few words excepted, as I originally formed it) I had no idea the states would agree to the sixth article, prohibiting slavery, as only Massachusetts of the Eastern states was present, and therefore omitted it... 
