| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 266 pages
...plaintiff is not entitled to sue as a citizen in a court of the United States. The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this...to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied by that instrument to the citizen? One of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1857 - 608 pages
...States ? " The facts stated, as correctly condensed by the Chief Justice, are that the plaintiff is " a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves." The plaintiff alleges that he is a citizen of Missouri; the defendant says that this is not true, because... | |
| Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1858 - 604 pages
...have a right to bring it, and it is our duty to meet it and decide it. The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this...rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen 1 One of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court of the United... | |
| Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 530 pages
...a Pennsylvania case declaring a negro not a citizen. TANKT, CJ ***** The question is simply this : Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this...rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen ? One of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court of the United... | |
| Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 558 pages
...Pennsylvania case declaring a negro not a citizen. TANET, CJ * * * * * The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this...rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen? One of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court of the United... | |
| Michael W. Cluskey - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 794 pages
...have a right to bring it, and it is our duty to meet it and decide it. The question is simply this : Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this...to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied by that instrument to the citizen ? One of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - African Americans - 1860 - 104 pages
...have a right to bring it, and it is our duty to meet it and decide it. " The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this...to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied by that instrument to the citizen? One of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court... | |
| Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 526 pages
...Pennsylvania case declaring a negro not a citizen. Taney, CJ * * * * * The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this...rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen ? One of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court of the United... | |
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