 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 730 pages
...to be set at 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...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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American 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...long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence " it was ever created is erased from memory. It is so odious " that nothing can support... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
