 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 512 pages
...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," — that is, express words of a written text ; and this principle, which commends itself to the enlightened... | |
 | 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...can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle, has... | |
 | 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...nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW," — that is, express words of a written text ; and this principle, which commends itself to the enlightened... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Abolitionists - 1874 - 656 pages
...it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive lav.'. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle, has... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...at the bar, and protracted adjournments of the court, it was solemnly decided, in 1772, that Slavery "is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive laiv,"* and since no such law could be shown in England, Slavery was impossible there. This case, besides... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 540 pages
...moral or political, but only by positive law It is • RANSOM OF SLAVES AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. 41.3 so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." 1 This principle has been adopted by tribunals even in slaveholdiug States.2 But I do not stop to dwell... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 848 pages
...after the reasons, occasion, and time itself, from whence it was created, are erased from the memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." That there is a difference in the systems of States, which recognize and which do not recognize the... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 920 pages
...EL' after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created are erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. "What<\vr inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed... | |
 | Great Britain. Royal Commission on Fugitive Slaves - Enslaved persons - 1876 - 350 pages
...long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created is " erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but " positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, 1 cannot " say this case is allowed... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1876 - 652 pages
...long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created is " erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but " positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, 1 cannot " say this case is allowed... | |
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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... 
