 | Charles Sumner - 1871 - 564 Seiten
...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."1 And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle,... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 656 Seiten
...it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive lav.'. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 562 Seiten
...at the bar, and protracted adjournments of the court, it was solemnly decided, in 1772, that Slavery "is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive laiv,"* and since no such law could be shown in England, Slavery was impossible there. This case, besides... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 540 Seiten
...moral or political, but only by positive law It is • RANSOM OF SLAVES AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. 41.3 so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." 1 This principle has been adopted by tribunals even in slaveholdiug States.2 But I do not stop to dwell... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - 1875 - 848 Seiten
....long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, from whence it was created, are erased from the memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." That there is a difference in the systems of States, which recognize and which do not recognize the... | |
 | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Fugitive Slaves - 1876 - 350 Seiten
...preserves " its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created is " erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing...Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, 1 cannot " say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1876 - 652 Seiten
...preserves " its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created is " erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing...Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, 1 cannot " say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1876 - 920 Seiten
...preserves its force I' EL' after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created are erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. "What<\vr inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - 1878 - 588 Seiten
...law is applied ; but here he says the want of a positive law concludes the Court, because slavery ' is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.' In effect he accepts the first argument for the slave, that slavery is contrary to the law of nature... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1879 - 460 Seiten
...being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law." And, again, " Slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." Now, if by positive law is meant a law enacted by the legislative power of the country, this assertion... | |
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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... 
