 | Massachusetts - Session laws - 1861 - 446 pages
...exclusively in congress. It declares that the clause of the constitution contemplates.the existence of "a positive, unqualified right on the part of the...in any way qualify, regulate, control or restrain." This-opinion was pronounced for the court by Mr. Justice Story; it has been approved by the legislature... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1861 - 536 pages
...emphatically say that the fugitive slave clause of the Constitution " manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive unqualified right on the part of the owner of the slave which no State law cr regulation can in any way qualify, regulate, control or restrain," it La to be remarked that the... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1861 - 876 pages
...Pennsylvania, 16 Peter's Reporta, page 612, decided in 1842: "The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive, unqualified right on the part of the owner of the slave, which no State law can in any way qualify, regulate, control or restrain. The slave is not to be discharged from service... | |
 | Joel Parker - Personal liberty laws - 1861 - 100 pages
...any nicetyx>f criticism upon words, it may fairly and reasonably be said, that any State law or State regulation which interrupts, limits, delays, or postpones, the rights of the owner to the immediate possession of the slave, and the immediate command of his service and labor, operates, pro tanto, as... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Conflict of laws - 1862 - 854 pages
...and sense thereof, will enforce and protect them. "The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive, unqualified right on the part of the...in any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain. The slave is not to be discharged from service or labor, in consequence of any State law or regulation.... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - United States - 1864 - 586 pages
...obstructing or abolishing the right of the owners of slaves. The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive, unqualified right on the part of the...qualify, regulate, control or restrain. . . . . . Any State law or" State regulation which interrupts, limits, delays, or postpones the right of the owner... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 696 pages
...and sense thereof, will enforce and protect them. The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive, unqualified right on the part of the...in any way qualify, regulate, control or restrain. The slave is not to be discharged from service or labor, in consequence of any state law or regulation.... | |
 | WILLIAM SCHOULER - 1868
...Judge Story, himself a Massachusetts man, declared that the Constitution contemplated the existence of " a positive, unqualified right, on the part of...any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain." This opinion of the Supreme Court, Governor Banks said, "has been approved by the Legislature of this... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - Massachusetts - 1875 - 746 pages
...provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law. Judge Story had ruled that the constitution contemplated the existence of a " positive, unqualified right on the part of the owner of a slave, which no state law or regulation can in any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain."... | |
 | George Lowell Austin - Massachusetts - 1884 - 686 pages
...provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law. Judge Story had ruled that the constitution contemplated the existence of a " positive, unqualified right on the part of the owner of a slave, which no state law or regulation can in any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain."... | |
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The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive, unqualified right on the part of the owner of the slave, which no State law or regulation can in any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain. 
