 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - 1889 - 590 Seiten
...consider themselves free by coming hither." In. the final judgment he delivered himself thus : " Slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." That is, the slavery as it existed in the West Indies ; for it is to that he looks, considering that... | |
 | 1904 - 926 Seiten
...The essence of Lord Mansfield's famous judgment in Somersett's Case is, "that the state of slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law; this state of slavery is neither allowed nor approved by the law of England, and therefore the black... | |
 | Horace Bertram Nelson - 1889 - 516 Seiten
...and time itself from whence it was created is erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can bo suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England ; and therefore the... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 526 Seiten
...it is incapable of being 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 learned chief-justice therefore ordered that Somersett, being claimed as a Virginia slave brought... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 530 Seiten
...it is incapable of being 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 learned chief-justice therefore ordered that Somersett, being claimed as a Virginia slave brought... | |
 | William T. Alexander - 1800 - 662 Seiten
...that it is incapable of being introduced ou 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 learned Chief-Justice, therefore, ordered that Sommersett being claimed as a Virginia slave, brought... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - 1893 - 628 Seiten
...116. 4 Loffl., I. long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created, are erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can...support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences may follow from this decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1896 - 452 Seiten
...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." * * * # * * * ' Of course every power to uphold slavery must have an origin as distinct as that of... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 392 Seiten
...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." J And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 418 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 Therefore the authority for Slavery cannot be derived from any words of doubtful import. Such... | |
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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... 
