 | Peter Burke - Law - 1854 - 358 pages
...power of a master over his slave has been extremely different, in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable...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,... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 930 pages
...power of a master over his slave has been extremely different in different countries. The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of...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 ever... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 406 pages
...master over his slave has been extremely different in different countries. The state of shivery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being introduced...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 ever... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 172 pages
...in these memorable words : v " We cannot direct the law ; the law must direct us. ** * Thefltateof Slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law. which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself whence it was created,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 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...reasons moral or political, but only by positive law. It is so odious, that nothing can lie suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." * And a slavcholding... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 186 pages
...it in these memorable words : " We cannot direct the law ; the law mnet direct us. s* * The state of Slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of being mtroduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law. -which preserves its force... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 254 pages
...power of the master over his slave has been extremely different in different countries." " The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable...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,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...and expressed by the Bench. In giving the opinion of the court, Lord Mansfield said : " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of...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,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 688 pages
...power of the master over his slave has been extremely different in different countries." " The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable...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,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...proceedings against his master for the recovery of his freedom, MANSFIELD says : — " The state of slavery is of such a nature that it is incapable of...reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself whence it was created,... | |
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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 by positive law... 
