 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - History - 1864 - 628 pages
...says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive...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.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1864 - 1062 pages
...quoted as an illustration 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." —... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - 1864 - 774 pages
...the law, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - 1864 - 644 pages
...the law, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - - 1864 - 644 pages
...the haw, as I understand, for the occasion, but certainly ruled it as the common law, says this : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of l*ing introdufced for any reasons, moral or political ; but only by positive law, which preserves its... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 1642 pages
...the slave comes in question in the one case more than in the other ? The third principle is, that " the state of slavery is of such a nature, that it...reasons moral or political, but only by positive law." " Slavery is so odious, lhat nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." Now, if by positive... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 730 pages
...liberty, inasmuch as the law of England did not recognise L the state of slavery. Lord MANSFIELD says, " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law." It is incumbent on the plaintiff in this case, therefore, to show, that at the time when he demanded... | |
 | Literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...family back to Missouri. In this HARRIET, WIFE OF DRED SCOTT. our Declaration of Independence, that " the state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 542 pages
...true rule of interpretation. " 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...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... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - International law - 1871 - 800 pages
...contains a summary of these cases. («) Edeti's Chtmeery Report*, p. 126. " in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature " that it...reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence " it was ever created is erased from memory. It is so odious " that nothing can support it but positive law.... | |
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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... 
