 | English literature - 1825 - 798 pages
...even though his master were unwilling. " The Court (they say) have felt it to be beyond their power to give their sanction to any measure which could...of the slave to demand his freedom invito domino. The Spanish law allows a slave to enfranchise himself by purchase : the Dutch law gives no such right... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - African Americans - 1826 - 144 pages
...principle of the Trinidad code in this respect. "The court have felt it to be beyond their power" " to give their sanction to any measure which could,...invito domino. — They feel themselves called upon to avow the principle, that thnj have not tlw right to invade the property of their fellow-colonists,... | |
 | Sir Robert Wilmot Horton - Slavery - 1826 - 142 pages
...minated for that purpose, to give their sanction " to any measure which could, even by construc" tion, imply an acknowledged right on the part " of the Slave to demand his freedom, invito do" mino. They feel themselves called upon openly " to avow the principle, that they have not the "right... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay - Antislavery movements - 1827 - 416 pages
...body, " without the breach of a sacred trust, to give their sanction to any measure which could ever, by construction, imply an acknowledged right, on the...have not the right to invade the property of their fellow colonists, by admitting that they can, in any manner, be deprived of it contrary to law, by... | |
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They feel themselves called upon to avow the principle, that thnj have not tlw right to invade the property of their fellow-colonists, by admitting that they can in any manner be deprived of it contrary to the law by which it is secured to them, and which... 