...preventing them from intermeddling or obstructing the rights of owners of slaves." Again: "The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive,...right on the part of the owner of the slave, which i\o State law or regulation can in any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain. The slave is not...

...construction, equally accordant with the words and sense thereof, ill enforce and protect them. The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive,...in any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain. The slave is not to be discharged from service or labour, in consequence of any state law or regulation....

...case of Prigg versus Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. (16 Peters, 539.) " The clause in the Constitution manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive unqualified right on the part of the owner of the fugitive slave, which no state law or regulation can in any way qualify, regulate, control, or...

...interfere. Ibid. The clause in the constitution of the United States, relating to fugitives from labour, manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive,...rights of the owner to the immediate command of his services or labour, operates, pro tanto, a discharge of the slave therefrom. The question can never...

...clause was adopted into the constitution by the unanimous consent of the framers of it. The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive...any way, qualify, regulate, control, or restrain. It puts the right of the owner, with all its incidents, upon the same ground in all the States. His...

...providing for the recovery of fugitive slaves from labor, manifestly admits and asserts the exercise of a positive unqualified right on the part of the...any way qualify, regulate, control or restrain. Any law or regulation which interrupts, limits, 'delays or postpones the rights of the owner to the immediate...

...providing for the recovery of fugitive slaves from labor, manifestly admits and asserts the exercise of a positive unqualified right on the part of the...any way qualify, regulate, control or restrain. Any law or regulation which interrupts, limits, 'delays or postpones the rights of the owner to the immediate...

...holder by the clause of the Constitution under consideration, the court proceed to say: "The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive...in any way qualify, regulate, control or restrain. The slave is not to be discharged from service or labor in consequence of any State law or regulation....

...unanimous consent of the framers of it — a proof at once of its intrinsic and practical necessity." It "manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive,...slave, which no State law or regulation can in any way regulate, control, qualify, or restrain." And Judge Baldwin, in the case of Johnson against Tompkins...

...framers of it, — a proof at once of its intrinsic and practical necessity." Again : " The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive,...slave, which no State law or regulation can in any way regulate, control, qualify, or restrain." The opinion of the other learned judges was not less emphatic...