A matter admitting of no discussion.
1842. The gentleman, in derision of the “fixed fact,” argued that there was no moral power nor spirit of resistance in the people.—Mr. Wise of Va., House of Repr., Dec. 29: Cong. Globe, p. 97.
1847. That the present war had been commenced by the President was, to use a very significant phrase once introduced here in debate, “a fixed fact.”—Mr. Davis of Ky., the same, Feb. 3: id., p. 308, App.
1847. That he did dispose of a large quantity of oil, and afterwards desert from the vessel, are fixed facts.—Boston Post, June (Bartlett).
1849. That this country [of Texas] would never be surrendered to Mexico, might be put down as “a fixed fact.”—Mr. Vinton of Ohio, House of Repr., Feb. 19: Cong. Globe, p. 556.
1850. We do not demand that you shall establish slavery in the territories. I have endeavored to show that you have no power to do so. Slavery is a “fixed fact” in your system.—Mr. Toombs of Georgia, the same, Feb. 27: id., p. 199, App.
1851. I submit it as a “fixed fact,” that there is scarcely one out of every score which marks itself differently from its contemporaries.—A. Oakey Hall, ‘The Manhattaner in New Orleans,’ p. 163.
1857. By Saturday evening Abram’s idea was embodied. It was a ‘fixed fact’ in the shape of the ‘Island Church!’—Knick. Mag., l. 291 (Sept.).
1861. Secession was a fixed fact, and that the constitutional power did not exist to coerce a State he believed to be incontestable.—O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. 186.
1866. This invention of the Selectmen became a “fixed fact” at the west end of the meeting-house.—Seba Smith, ‘’Way Down East,’ p. 12.
