 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - - 1864 - 644 pages
...haw, 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 l*ing introdufced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 1642 pages
...slave comes in question in the one case more than in the other ? The third principle is, that " the state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable...reasons moral or political, but only by positive law." " Slavery is so odious, lhat nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." Now, if by positive... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 730 pages
...inasmuch as the law of England did not recognise L the state of slavery. Lord MANSFIELD says, " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law." It is incumbent on the plaintiff in this case, therefore, to show, that at the time when he demanded... | |
 | Literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...back to Missouri. In this HARRIET, WIFE OF DRED SCOTT. our Declaration of Independence, that " the state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable...introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only positive law. . . . It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." The... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 542 pages
...true rule of interpretation. " The 1 Hoare's Memoirs of Sharp, p. 38. state of Slavery," he said, " 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."1 Therefore the authority... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...contains a summary of these cases. («) Edeti's Chtmeery Report*, p. 126. " in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature " that it is...reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence " it was ever created is erased from memory. It is so odious " that nothing can support it but positive law.... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...state of Slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Sommersett, " 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."1 And a slaveholding... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - Publishers' catalogues - 1872 - 598 pages
...declared it in these memorable words : We canuot direct the law ; the law must direct us. * * * The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable...long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, whence it was created, is erased from the memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be sufficient to... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 534 pages
...begins with the great words of Lord Mansfield, who, in the memorable case of Somerset, said : " The state of Slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law. .... It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." 1 This principle... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 512 pages
..."The state of Slavery," 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 i only by positive law. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW,"... | |
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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... 
