A Complete Collection of State Trials Vol. XX |
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Pàgina 1
... slavery , or compelled to perpetual service ; and to discharge Mr. Wedderburn from sending the petitioner ' abroad . ' B " The property which , in Jamaica , was es- THE Case of JAMES SOMMERSETT, a Negro, on a Habeas Corpus, A D 1771 ...
... slavery , or compelled to perpetual service ; and to discharge Mr. Wedderburn from sending the petitioner ' abroad . ' B " The property which , in Jamaica , was es- THE Case of JAMES SOMMERSETT, a Negro, on a Habeas Corpus, A D 1771 ...
Pàgina 3
... slavery is not contrary to the law of nations . law of Jamaica , which authorizes the slavery Writers upon that law have enumerated seve- of Africans brought into that island .. Under ral just and lawful origins of slavery ; such as ...
... slavery is not contrary to the law of nations . law of Jamaica , which authorizes the slavery Writers upon that law have enumerated seve- of Africans brought into that island .. Under ral just and lawful origins of slavery ; such as ...
Pàgina 5
... slavery of negroes . cessary ; but there are certain bounds , beyond which , if any institution , subjecting one indi- vidual to another , should go , the injustice and immorality of it cannot admit of a doubt . Such is the institution ...
... slavery of negroes . cessary ; but there are certain bounds , beyond which , if any institution , subjecting one indi- vidual to another , should go , the injustice and immorality of it cannot admit of a doubt . Such is the institution ...
Pàgina 7
... slaves in Africa ; and that during all the. " I , John Knowles , commander of the vessel called the Ann and Mary in the ... slavery were adopted by the laws of this country , yet that the common law could not be understood to favour the ...
... slaves in Africa ; and that during all the. " I , John Knowles , commander of the vessel called the Ann and Mary in the ... slavery were adopted by the laws of this country , yet that the common law could not be understood to favour the ...
Pàgina 9
... slavery . The same observations are in general so appli- cable to the state of salters , that it is unneces sary to consider it . " On the part of the defender it was argued by Mr. Ferguson ( lord Pitfour , ) " There still exists in ...
... slavery . The same observations are in general so appli- cable to the state of salters , that it is unneces sary to consider it . " On the part of the defender it was argued by Mr. Ferguson ( lord Pitfour , ) " There still exists in ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 19 - ... or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole...
Pàgina 249 - Chief of our said Province for the time being, then such and so many of the said Laws, Statutes and Ordinances as shall be so disallowed and not approved shall from thenceforth cease, determine and become utterly void and of none effect, anything to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
Pàgina 801 - WHEN the complaints of a brave and powerful people are observed to increase in proportion to the wrongs they have suffered, when, instead of sinking into submission, they are roused to resistance, the time will soon arrive at which every inferior consideration must yield to the security of the sovereign and to the general safety of the state.
Pàgina 665 - ... to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were for that reason only inhumanly murdered by the king's troops at or near Lexington and Concord, in the province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April; which sum being immediately collected, it was thereupon resolved that Mr.
Pàgina 81 - 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 erased from memory: it's so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.
Pàgina 801 - ... you heard it in the complaints of your people. It is not however too late to correct the error of your education. We are still inclined to make an indulgent allowance for the pernicious lessons you received in your youth, and to form the most sanguine hopes from the natural benevolence of your disposition.'' We are far from thinking you capable of a direct deliberate purpose to invade those original rights of your subjects, on which all their civil and political liberties depend. Had it been...
Pàgina 243 - Governors of our said colonies, respectively, that, so soon as the state and circumstances of the said colonies will admit thereof, they shall, with the advice and consent of the members of our council, summon and call general assemblies, within the said governments, respectively, in such manner and form as is used and directed in those colonies and provinces in America, which are under our immediate government...
Pàgina 649 - In contempt of our said Lord the King, in open violation of the laws of this kingdom, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Pàgina 805 - ... unworthy personal resentment. From one false step you have been betrayed into another, and, as the cause was unworthy of you, your ministers were determined that the prudence of the execution should correspond with the wisdom and dignity of the design. They have reduced you to the necessity of choosing out of a variety of difficulties — to a situation so unhappy that you can neither do wrong without ruin nor right without affliction. These worthy servants have undoubtedly given you many singular...
Pàgina 811 - Lay aside the wretched formalities of a king, and speak to your subjects with the spirit of a man, and in the language of a gentleman. Tell them you have been fatally deceived.