 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...rendered the following judgment : — " 'We cannot direct the law; the law must direct us. * * * * The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it...its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time of itself whence it was created, is erased from the memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be sufficient... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 670 pages
...extent, we find a clear intimation of the principle above stated. Slavery, .said Lord Mansfield, "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." But this is a clear... | |
 | David Christy - Antislavery movements - 1862 - 646 pages
...V. Brown, 2 Salk., 666 ; 20 State Trials, 55, note.) (c) Lord MANSFIELD said, in Somersett's case, ' The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reason, moral or political, but only by positive law,' and negrophilism has been in raptures with him... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1868 - 208 pages
...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 only by positive law. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW" — that is, express... | |
 | 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...long 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
