This proviso received eleven votes, and twenty-eight were recorded against it.
Bill of Rights, prohibiting Slavery or involuntary servitude, came up for adoption, and it was moved to add a proviso suspending the operation of this section for the period of twelve months after the admission of the State.
The usual powers were given as we have seen before of absolute power, the proviso of bringing the savages to the light of the Holy Roman and Catholic and Apostolic religion being included as usual.
All he would promise was to hearken to a General Council, but even this promise he qualified with a proviso which rendered his assent illusory: “So long as no judgment contrary or detrimental to the truth is pronounced.
Luther and his followers agreed to the negotiations, but with the so-called “proviso of the Gospel,” i.
I would put in no Wilmot Proviso for the mere purpose of a taunt or a reproach.
It could not be done; and as the South regarded the Proviso as merely a source of irritation, and as designed by some to irritate, I thought it unwise to apply it to New Mexico or Utah.
For when the committees of Congress had struck out the proviso respecting exchange, it was not worth a rush; it was not worth the parchment it would be engrossed upon.
Therefore, when it was proposed in Congress to apply the Wilmot Proviso to New Mexico and Utah, it appeared to me just as absurd as to apply it here in Western New York.
Jefferson Davis spoke for the extension westward of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean, with a proviso positively establishing slavery south of that line.
In Congress they debated the matter hotly; the friends of the Wilmot proviso met in bitter conflict the advocates of the westward extension of the line of 36° 30'.
He was emphatic and distinct in reiterating this proviso as fundamental.
A brief period of so-called independence on the part of Texas was followed by the annexation of her territory to the United States,[62] with the proviso that from her great area might in the future be cut off still four other States.
Repeatedly and in various shapes was the substance of this proviso voted upon, but always it was voted down.
There are wily persons who systematically and habitually insert in their catalogues items which they have acquired with the distinct proviso that they were defective, and have naturally acquired at a proportionate price.
In a catalogue of 1681, however, there is a proviso that at least twenty gentlemen must attend.
Pedro ought to sign the summonses; but as he refused to do this, they were all signed by the Queen, with the proviso that such signature should hold good only till the Assembly of the Estates should settle the question.
We shall see how, in the sequel, this latter proviso came very near fulfilment.
For example, Kautsky opposes direct legislation--with the proviso that perhaps it may have a certain value in English-speaking countries and under some circumstances in France.
In anticipation of the acquisition of territory from Mexico, on account of the Mexican war, the famous Wilmot proviso passed the House of Representatives at the heel of the session in 1846.
He opposed the incorporation of the Wilmot proviso into the two or three million bills.
Thirteen of the seventeen committee members concurred with the staff study without reservation; the remaining four concurred with the proviso that states prohibiting segregation be granted the right to integrate.
He never alluded to the Missouri compromise, unless it was by the allusion to the Wilmot proviso in the Oregon bill, and therein said it was a useless and, in that connection, senseless thing.
The term of the President by whom he was appointed had expired and the "one month thereafter" had also expired; therefore, the proviso reported by the Conference Committee was futile to protect him.
Sherman replied that the proviso was not intended to apply to a particular case or to the present President, and that Doolittle's interpretation of the phrase as not protecting Stanton in office was the true interpretation.
The forty-ninth degree of north latitude was to be followed west, as far as the territories of the two countries extended in that direction, with a proviso against its application to the country west of the Rocky Mountains.
Mr. Calhoun said there was a remedy for it in a few words, by adding a proviso of exception, if the land distribution bill became a law.
The bank is first limited to such acquisitions of real estate as are necessary to its own accommodation; then comes a proviso to undo the limitation, so far as it concerns purchases upon its own mortgages and executions!
Mr. Benton was utterly opposed to such a proviso--a proviso to take effect if the same thing did not become law in another bill.
When Adams paid no attention to the proviso but insisted on signature of the treaty, Russell at last wrote a declaration in the nature of an insult, which could not be disregarded[254].
Captain Bullock had indeed made such a contract of sale to French merchants but with the proviso of resale to him, after delivery.
His record on the Wilmot Proviso has been thoroughly exposed, both by himself and Mr. Douglas, and in the Presidential campaign by his friends and foes.
The Wilmot Proviso has been before the country some time.
When I was at Washington, I voted for the Wilmot Proviso as good as forty times; and I never heard of any one attempting to un whig me for that.
Many contracts contain the proviso that in case of future dispute the parties would abide by "the decision of the king.
The soldiery were given a free hand with the proviso that churches, women, and unarmed priests were to be respected.
But with this proviso always, that our cloth pass out with as much labour of our people as may be, wherein great consideration ought to be had.
Proviso for persons going harvesting into other counties.
At Philadelphia the Wilmot Provisoitself was stifled, amidst cries of "Kick it out!
As conditions were at its passage, theproviso applied only to certain Congregational churches that, preferring the polity of the Cambridge Platform, were determined to adhere to it.
Accordingly she placed side by side upon her statute book a Toleration Act with a proviso in favor of her Established Church, and a Church platform with a proviso for "sober dissenters" therefrom.
Out of this proviso grew a misunderstanding in the Norwich church, which happens also to furnish a typical illustration of the difficulties sometimes encountered in trying to collect a minister's salary.
Hence the Toleration Act, and, of necessity, the proviso in the act of the following session of the General Court whereby it approved the Saybrook Platform.
Toleration Act and proviso notwithstanding, no rival church was desired at this time in Connecticut.
Now, the proviso represented that liberal-minded party within the church who would extend tolerance to the minority who still clung to the outgrown convictions and principles of an earlier age.
The former Democrats and Whigs who were friendly to the Wilmot Proviso formed the Free Soil party in 1848, to which also the Abolitionists naturally attached themselves.
Then a joint resolution was introduced, and, after a hot discussion, was passed with the proviso that the incoming President might act, if he preferred, by treaty.
Before the outbreak of the Mexican War, Congressman David Wilmot, of Pennsylvania, introduced the Proviso known by his name.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proviso" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
