 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...direct the law : the lair must direct ะจ. .... The state of Slavery is of such a nature that It la incapable of being Introduced on any reasons, moral...political, but only by positive- law, which preserves ita force long after the reasons, occasion, and time Iteell whence It was created, Is erased from the... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...cannot direct the law : the law must direct mi. . . . . The state of Slavery is of such a nature that it :incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral...political, but only by positive law, which preserves iw force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself whence it was created, is erased from the... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...declared it in these memorable words : " We cannot direct the law : the law must direct us. .... The state of Slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of heing introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...rendered the following judgment : โ " 'We cannot direct the law; the law must direct us. * * * * The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable...its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time of itself whence it was created, is erased from the memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be sufficient... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 670 pages
...extent, we find a clear intimation of the principle above stated. Slavery, .said Lord Mansfield, "is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law." " It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law." But this is a clear... | |
 | David Christy - Antislavery movements - 1862 - 646 pages
...Brown, 2 Salk., 666 ; 20 State Trials, 55, note.) (c) Lord MANSFIELD said, in Somersett's case, ' The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reason, moral or political, but only by positive law,' and negrophilism has been in raptures with him... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1868 - 208 pages
...said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somerset, "is of such a nature that-it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW" โ that is, express... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1864 - 1062 pages
...quoted as an illustration of the true rule of interpretation. " The state of Slavery," he said, " is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by posit i re law. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it bul, positive law." โ... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - 1864 - 774 pages
...law, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - History - 1864 - 628 pages
...law, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after... | |
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The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law... 
