Excerpt from History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America, Vol. 2 I spent much of this day in transiently reading the report of the trial in the Supreme Court of the United States of the case of Edward Prigg against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, otherwise called the Fugitive Slave case - seven judges, everyone of them dissenting from the reasoning of all the rest, and everyone of them coming to the same con elusion - the transcendant omnipotence of slavery in these United States, riveted ...
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Excerpt from History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America, Vol. 2 I spent much of this day in transiently reading the report of the trial in the Supreme Court of the United States of the case of Edward Prigg against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, otherwise called the Fugitive Slave case - seven judges, everyone of them dissenting from the reasoning of all the rest, and everyone of them coming to the same con elusion - the transcendant omnipotence of slavery in these United States, riveted by a clause in the Constitution. George Ticknor wrote to William Ellery Charming, April 20, 1842. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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