 | 1839 - 397 pages
...States, hy preventing them from intermeddling or obstructing the rights of owners of slaves." Again: "The clause manifestly contemplates the existence...right on the part of the owner of the slave, which i\o State law or regulation can in any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain. The slave is not... | |
 | Edward Prigg, Richard Peters - 1842 - 154 pages
...territorial laws. The clause in the Constitution of the United States, relating to fugitives from labour, manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive,...in any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain. Any state law or regulation, which interrupts, limits, delays, or postpones the rights of the owner... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1845 - 654 pages
...case of Prigg versus Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. (16 Peters, 539.) " The clause in the Constitution manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive unqualified right on the part of the owner of the fugitive slave, which no state law or regulation can in any way qualify, regulate, control, or... | |
 | United States - 1845 - 818 pages
...interfere. Ibid. The clause in the constitution of the United States, relating to fugitives from labour, manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive,...in any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain. Any state law or regulation, which interrupts, limits, delays, or postpones the rights of the owner... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1849 - 1132 pages
...light, for the clause was adopted into the constitution by the unanimous consent of the framers of it. The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of...any way, qualify, regulate, control, or restrain. It puts the right of the owner, with all its incidents, upon the same ground in all the States. His... | |
 | 1847 - 602 pages
...providing for the recovery of fugitive slaves from labor, manifestly admits and asserts the exercise of a positive unqualified right on the part of the...in any way qualify, regulate, control or restrain. Any law or regulation which interrupts, limits, 'delays or postpones the rights of the owner to the... | |
 | 1847 - 604 pages
...providing for the recovery of fugitive slaves from labor, manifestly admits and asserts the exercise of a positive unqualified right on the part of the...in any way qualify, regulate, control or restrain. Any law or regulation which interrupts, limits, 'delays or postpones the rights of the owner to the... | |
 | 1849 - 626 pages
...consent of the framers of it, — a proof at once of its intrinsic and practical necessity." Again : " The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of...slave, which no State law or regulation can in any way regulate, control, qualify, or restrain." The opinion of the other learned judges was not less emphatic... | |
 | 1849 - 736 pages
...unanimous consent of the framers of it — a proof at once of its intrinsic and practical necessity." It "manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive,...slave, which no State law or regulation can in any way regulate, control, qualify, or restrain." And Judge Baldwin, in the case of Johnson against Tompkins... | |
 | 1851 - 408 pages
...the framers of it — a proof at once of its own intrinsic and practical necessity." And again : " The clause manifestly contemplates the existence of...in any way qualify, regulate, control or restrain." * * * * " We have not the slightest hesitation in holding that, under and in virtue of the Constitution,... | |
| |
States, relating to fugitives from labour, manifestly contemplates the existence of a positive, unqualified right, on the part of the owner of the slave, which no state law or regulation can in any way qualify, regulate, control, or restrain. 
