Report of the Lemmon Slave Case: Containing Points and Arguments of Counsel on Both Sides, and Opinions of All the JudgesH. Greeley & Company, 1861 - 146 páginas |
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Página 126 - should be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States, and that the people of each State should have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and should enjoy
Página 57 - discourages arts and manufactures. The poor despise labor when performed by slaves. They prevent the emigration of whites, who really enrich and strengthen a country. They produce the most pernicious effect on manners. Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of Heaven on a country. . . . Mr.
Página 136 - bo entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States ; and the people of each State should have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and should enjoy
Página 136 - have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and should enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof, respectively.
Página 97 - not all, of the other States, they are, in all respects, chattels ; as, for instance, in South Carolina, where the law declares, " Slaves shall be deemed, sold, taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever.
Página 141 - restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any State to any other State, of which the owner is an inhabitant.
Página 56 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the greatest object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. But, previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa
Página 90 - In other words, except in cases where the power is restrained by the Constitution of the United States, the law of the State is supreme over the subject of slavery within its jurisdiction. " As a practical illustration of the principle, we may refer to the legislation of the free States in abolishing slavery, and prohibiting its introduction into their territories.
Página 140 - progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. It
Página 56 - I can only say, that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it. But there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority ; and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting But