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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Incident of the Nineteenth Century--Romantic Elopement on an ox sled. (search)
certain that the judges did not intend to declare that all property in slaves should instantly cease, and yet such would have been the inevitable effect of their judgment in the case supposed, which some-what resembles that of America." Lord Brougham, then, believes the decision of Lord Mansfield, so much relied on, and so often and so confidently quoted, to have been erroneous! It would never have been made, had Jamaica lay in the Irish Soap or St. George's Channel, instead of the Gulf of Mexico!--Surely, this ought to settle the question. The anti-slavery proclivities of. Lord Brougham place his opinions, when they happen to be pro-slavery, above all suspicion. There can be no doubt that he would gladly have pronounced in favor of Lord Mansfield's decision had he found it possible to do so. His opinion seems to be that slavery is recognized by the common law, and that it can only be destroyed by statute — never by a change of locality within the political limits of the countr