 | David Christy - Antislavery movements - 1862 - 646 pages
...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... | |
 | George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...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... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester Reynolds - Slavery - 1862 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1864 - 1062 pages
...of the true rule of interpretation. " The 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 posit i re law. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it bul, positive law." —... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1864 - 656 pages
...that Somerset must he discharged. Lord Mansfield in Somerset's case says, that the state of slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. "In this collision of individual opinions, and opposing decisions in the British books, ! this court... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - 1864 - 774 pages
...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 it but positive law. "Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - 1864 - 644 pages
...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 it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 1642 pages
...reason assigned by 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Sommersett, " is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral...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 Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 542 pages
..." The 1 Hoare's 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...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, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is... 
