| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 984 страници
...is incapable of being 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 learned chief-justice therefore ordered that Somersett, being claimed as a Virginia slave brought... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1871 - 564 страници
...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." 1 And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 542 страници
...it 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."1 Therefore the authority for Slavery cannot be derived from any words of doubtful import. Such... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1871 - 564 страници
...it 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."1 And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1872 - 512 страници
...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 reason,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 562 страници
...argument 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 Edwards Lester - 1874 - 648 страници
...it 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." And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 540 страници
...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 - 1875 - 848 страници
...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 institution... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1876 - 920 страници
...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... | |
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