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But this concession on the part of Northern politicians had no real value to the South, for, as Webster pointed out at the time, slave labor was effectually interdicted from competing with free labor for the possession of this land by a power higher than the Wilmot proviso, viz., by a law of nature.
"I should suppose that to be easily accomplished, as I am now a partaker of its hospitality. What else?" "The remaining proviso is that you take service, with his lordship, the Archbishop of Treves, and swear entire allegiance to him." "I am already in the service of the Emperor." "It has just been proven that you are not."
"Certainly I meant it," Dominic replied, "the proviso I have made being respected." "Yes, yes, of course but what do you understand by fighting for me? Money?" Dominic had risen, too. He remained for a moment in thought. "Within reasonable relation to my means, yes," he said. "I only want my chance," the other asserted. "The rest will follow as a matter of course. You would risk nothing, Mr.
"If you or your lawyers would like to examine Sir George's will, it is quite at your service; you will see here the proviso which I mentioned, that gives the entire fortune to Lady Griffin Lady Crabs that is: and here, my dear boy, you see the danger of hasty conclusions.
When Lee read over the draft he flushed slightly on coming to this generous proviso and gratefully said: "This will have a very happy effect upon my army." Grant then asked him if he had any suggestions to make; whereupon he said that the mounted Confederates, unlike the Federals, owned their horses.
If the house were unfurnished, and you had leisure to pick and choose, you might suit yourself tolerably well, always with the proviso that things English could be suitable to the foreigner. And certainly, in the 1850's, the English commanded living conditions more desirable, on the whole, than Americans did.
Its consistency only was challenged. After giving a history of the various steps in organizing the three Territories in 1861, and of the great need, by reason of the pressure of thousands of emigrants, of providing a government therefor, and the impracticability of passing a Territorial bill with an anti-slavery proviso, Mr. Grow, in a letter to the author, says,
And all might have gone well with it, if the author could only have held his tongue, when near the ears of women. But this was beyond his sense as it seems, although so good a writer. Lizzie sat on a log of wood, and listened with all her ears up, having made proviso that no one else should be there to interrupt her.
Congress, now in harmony with the executive, responded by placing the reconstruction of the three states in the hands of the President, but with the proviso that each state must ratify the Fifteenth Amendment. Grant thereupon fixed a time for voting in each state and directed that in Virginia and Mississippi the disfranchising clauses be submitted separately.
Everything was going finely so far. He added that proviso of so far instinctively. "Besides, Jack," he went on, changing to another subject that was equally vital to his ego, "this name of Wingfield is something to work for. I was the son of a poor New England clergyman, but there is family back of it; good blood, good blood! I was not the first John Wingfield and you shall not be the last!"
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