 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...state of Slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Sommersett, " 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 And a slaveholding... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - Publishers' catalogues - 1872 - 598 pages
...Mansfield declared it in these memorable words : We canuot direct the law ; the law must direct us. * * * The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, whence it was created, is erased from the memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be sufficient to... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 534 pages
...It begins with the great words of Lord Mansfield, who, in the memorable case of Somerset, said : " The state of Slavery is of such a nature that it is...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 This principle... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 512 pages
..."The state of Slavery," said Lord 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 i only by positive law. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW,"... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Abolitionists - 1874 - 648 pages
..."The state of Slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somersett, " 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." And a slaveholding tribunal,... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Abolitionists - 1874 - 644 pages
...The state of Slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somersett, " is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced...any reasons moral or political, but only by positive laiv. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." And a slaveholding... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 848 pages
...importance was felt and expressed by the bench. In giving the opinion of the court, Lord Mansfield said: " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...occasion, and time itself, from whence it was created, is erased from the memory ; it is of a nature that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1875 - 598 pages
...is used. The power of a master over his slave has been exceedingly different in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons morul or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 920 pages
...justice of the court of king's bench observed, " has been extremely different in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is...introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only positive law, which preserves its force I' EL' after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence... | |
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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... 
