 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 418 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...nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law."1 Therefore the authority for Slavery cannot be derived from any words of doubtful import. Such... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 404 pages
...introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but » 1 irv. I™, Absalom and Achitophel, Fart 1. 301, 303. 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 Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 434 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 law,"* and since no such law could be shown in England, Slavery was impossible there. This case, besides constituting... | |
 | George Burton Adams, Henry Morse Stephens - Constitutional history - 1901 - 590 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, I cannot say this case is allowed... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 598 pages
...long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from where it was created are erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may fol24 low this decision, I can not say this case is allowed... | |
 | Slason Thompson - Biography & Autobiography - 1901 - 440 pages
...this case Roswell Field contended for the broad principle enunciated by Lord Mansfield that " Slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." He consented to a discontinuance of the original action because of the variance of the complaint from... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Slavery - 1906 - 402 pages
...slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law."' In every one of the British colonies in America, however, slavery was legal by positive law when the... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Abolitionists - 1906 - 410 pages
...slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." 3 In every one of the British colonies in America, however, slavery was legal by positive law when... | |
 | Addison Briggs Burk, Howard A. Chase, J. Lee Patton, Hampton Moor - 1906 - 256 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. inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say, this case is allowed or approved... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Slavery - 1906 - 402 pages
...slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.'*3 In every one of the British colonies in America, however, slavery was legal by positive law... | |
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