 | 1839 - 1092 sider
...judgment for the slave in 1772. Lord Mansfield said of slavery, in concluding his judgment : " Slavery is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive lav, and it is not allowed or approved by the law of England." The same question had arisen in Scotland... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 926 sider
...themselves free by coming here." 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 the slavery as it existed in the West Indies : for it is to that he looks, considering that... | |
 | Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty, John Haggard - 1827 - 76 sider
...themselves free by coming here." 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, the slavery as it existed in the West Indies ; for it is to that he looks, considering... | |
 | 1828 - 390 sider
...preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, are erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing...Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England ; and therefore the... | |
 | 1828 - 924 sider
...selves free by coming here." hi 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 the slavery as il existed in the West Indies : for it is to that he looks, considering that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 946 sider
...free by coming here." !<-•. 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 the slavery as il existed in the West Indies : for it is to that he looks, considering that... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 sider
...preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, are erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing...Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England; and therefore the... | |
 | Great Britain. High Court of Admiralty, John Haggard - 1833 - 484 sider
...themselves free by coming here." 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, the slavery as it existed in the West Indies; for it is to that he looks, considering that... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1859 - 634 sider
...but only positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and lime itself, Is erased from memory. It is so odious that nothing...Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England : and therefore the... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1838 - 648 sider
...judgment for the Slave in 1 772. Lord Mansfield said of Slavery, in concluding his judgment, " Slavery is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law, and it is not allowed or approved by the law of England." The same question had arisen in Scotland,... | |
| |
The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political; but only... 
