 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, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is...  Report of the Commissioners, Minutes of the Evidence, and Appendix, with ... - Página xlviipor Great Britain. Royal Commission on Fugitive Slaves - 1876 - 251 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - 1875 - 848 páginas
...a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force .long after...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... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1876 - 920 páginas
...preserves its force I' 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... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1877 - 598 páginas
...only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions, and time itseli from whence it was created is erased from memory....inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I can not say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore the black must... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - 1878 - 588 páginas
...law is applied ; but here he says the want of a positive law concludes the Court, because slavery ' is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.' In effect he accepts the first argument for the slave, that slavery is contrary to the law of nature... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1879 - 460 páginas
...being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law." And, again, " Slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." Now, if by positive law is meant a law enacted by the legislative power of the country, this assertion... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1863 - 548 páginas
...It had been declared by Lord Mansfield, in the Court of King's Bench, in England, that slavery was " so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law." At the time the Federal Constitution was adopted, there was not, in the State Constitutions, any thing... | |
 | James Breckinridge Waller - 1880 - 104 páginas
...the laws of the West Indies.' In the final judgment he delivers himself thus : ' The state of slavery is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.' That is slavery as it existed in the West Indies, for it is to that he looks, considering that many... | |
 | George Washington Williams - 1882 - 1152 páginas
...or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasions, and time itself from whence it was created is erased...inconveniences, therefore, may follow from the decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England, and therefore the black must be... | |
 | Frederick Charles Moncreiff - 1882 - 204 páginas
...incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, and can only be enforced in obedience to positive law, which preserves its force long after...reasons, occasion, and time itself, from whence it sprang, are erased from the memory. It is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but... | |
 | 1882 - 260 páginas
...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." This is the language more than a century since uttered by no softhearted humanitarian, but by the Conservative... | |
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