...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 ; " and every court of every State, slave and free, has echoed and reechoed these immortal words !...

...itself whence it was created, is erased from the memory. It is so odious that nothing can be sufficient to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say that ihis case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore...

...itself whence it was created, is erased from the memory. It ia so odious that nothing can be sufficient to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say that this case ia allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore...

...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." But this is a clear admission, and indeed this is manifest throughout his opinion, that although odious...

...It had been declared by Lord Mansfield, in the Court of King's Bench, in England, that slavery was " so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." At the time the Federal Constitution was adopted, there was not, in the State Constitutions, any thing...

...the thirteen North American colonies.^ But Lord Mansfield said, in Somerset's case, that slavery was "so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law." No such positive law was ever passed by Parliament — certainly not with reference to any of these...

...claim for it a guaranty in the Constitution, as a national interest, — it being, in its nature," so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law " ? Bill was framed. The history of that clause is thus related by MR. HILDRETH : " When the article...

...claim for it a guaranty in the Constitution, as a national interest, — it being, in its nature, " so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law " ? Bill was framed. The history of that clause is thus related by MR. HILDRETH : " When the article...

...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" — that is, express words of a written text ; and this principle, which commends itself to the enlightened...

...after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It's so odious that nothing can be suffered to support...case is allowed or approved by the law of England." I need not go back to authority. We have it abundantly in our own country, in all the free States,...