On the record
We perceive that controversy concerning its future domestic institutions was inevitable; that no human prudence, no form of legislation, no wisdom on the part of Congress, could have prevented it.
Source
gutenberg.orgFranklin Pierce: “We perceive that controversy concerning its future domestic institutions was inevitable; that no human prudence, no form…”
Editor's note · Context
Pierce acknowledges that controversy over Kansas's future institutions was unavoidable, regardless of legislative efforts.
Share
More from Franklin Pierce
As their united valor was adequate to all the trials of the camp and dangers of the field, so their united wisdom proved equal to the greater task of founding upon a deep and broad basis institutions which it has been our privilege to…
We can afford to wait, but we can not afford to overlook the ark of our security.
At one period or another every maritime power has by some solemn treaty stipulation recognized that principle, and it might have been hoped that it would come to be universally received and respected as a rule of international law.
Interpreted and applied according to those principles, the great compact adapts itself with healthy ease and freedom to an unlimited extension of that benign system of federative self-government of which it is our glorious and, I trust…
Other voices in this conversation
