...claim for it a guaranty in the Constitution, as a national interest, — it being, in its nature," so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law " ? Bill was framed. The history of that clause is thus related by MR. HILDRETH : " When the article...

...claim for it a guaranty in the Constitution, as a national interest, — it being, in its nature, " so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law " ? Bill was framed. The history of that clause is thus related by MR. HILDRETH : " When the article...

...said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Somerset, "is of such a nature that-it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral...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...

...that Somerset must he discharged. Lord Mansfield in Somerset's case says, that the state of slavery is so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. "In this collision of individual opinions, and opposing decisions in the British books, ! this court...

...after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It's so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or...

...after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It's so odious that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. "Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed...

...is incapable of being introduced on any reasons moral or political, but only by positive law ; and, it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law. The same doctrine is clearly stated in the full and able opinion of Marshall CJ, in ihe case of the...

...state of Slavery," said Lord Mansfield, pronouncing judgment in the great case of Sommersett, " is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced...nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW." 1 And a slaveholding tribunal, — the Supreme Court of Mississippi, — adopting the same principle,...

...true rule of interpretation. " The 1 Hoare's Memoirs of Sharp, p. 38. 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...

...such a nature that it 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...