| Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - 1862 - 252 페이지
...England. " The state of slavery is of such a nature," said LORD MANSFIELD, " 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." According to this decision,... | |
| Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 페이지
...law; the law must direct us. * * * * 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, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time of itself whence it was created,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1868 - 208 페이지
...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" — that is, express words... | |
| Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1862 - 1642 페이지
...Lord Mansfitld in Sommersett's case was, that slavery is of such a nature, thvt it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law ; and, it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. The same doctrine... | |
| Great Britain. Courts - 1870 - 730 페이지
...of slavery. Lord MANSFIELD says, " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political,...incumbent on the plaintiff in this case, therefore, to show, that at the time when he demanded these slaves to be gi'en up to him, they were Hie slaves by... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1871 - 564 페이지
...pronouncing judgment in the great case of Sommersett, " 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." 1 And a slaveholding tribunal,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 542 페이지
...Memoirs of Sharp, p. 38. 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 positive law It' is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law."1 Therefore the authority for... | |
| L. U. Reavis - 1872 - 598 페이지
...law ; the law must direct us. * * * 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, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, whence it was created,... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 648 페이지
...pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somersett, " 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." And a slaveholding tribunal,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 528 페이지
...pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somerset, "is of such a nature that it is incapable of Wing 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... | |
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