 | Edmund Burke - 1851 - 884 páginas
...been enacted under its authority. " The series of measures to which I have alluded are regarded by me as a settlement in principle and substance — a final settlement of the dangerous and exciting subjects which they embraced. Most of these subjects, indeed, are beyond your reach, as the legislation... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1882 - 510 páginas
...that these compromise measures, the act known as the fugitive slave law included, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States, as a settlement, in principal and substance, of the dangerous and exciting questions which they embrace;" and, "We will... | |
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That the series of acts of the Thirty-second Congress, the act known as the Fugitive Slave law included, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States as a settlement in principle and substance of the dangerous and exciting questions... 
