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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     N. Y. Court of Appeals. REPORT OF THE LEMMON SLAVE CASE: CONTAINING POINTS AND ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL ON BOTH SIDES, AND OPINIONS OF ALL THE JUDGES. LC NEW YORK: HORACE GREELEY &…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE STATE OF NEW YORK. PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ON THE RELATION OF LOUIS NAPOLEON, RESPONDENTS, AGAINST JONATHAN LEMMON, A CITIZEN OF THE…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     4 Carlisle street, where they were discovered by a colored man named Louis Napoleon, who thereupon presented a petition to the Hon. Elijah Paine, then one of the Justices of the Superior…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     5 Lemmon, the wife of this respondent, for whom they are held and retained by this respondent. That the said Juliet has been the owner of such persons as slaves for several…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     6 That the said slaves are not confined or restrained of their liberty, against their will, by this respondent, or the said Juliet, or by any other one on her behalf. Jonathan…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     7 I shall first consider whether those cases can be sustained upon general principles. The first case of the kind which occurred, was that of Sewall's Slaves, which was decided in Indiana…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     8 of the criminal code, for a violation of which the plaintiff is indicted, does most distinctly recognize the existence of the institution of slavery in some of these United States, and…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     9 hold that, even where slavery is established by the local law, a man cannot have that full and absolute property in a person which he may have in an inanimate thing.…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     10 a citation, upon that point, from Vattel (Preliminaries, s. 6). “The law of nations is originally no more than the law of nature applied to nations.” I ought also to notice…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     11 by the three cases upon which the counsel mainly relies. And even if all this were not so, I apprehend that the Constitution having undertaken to regulate both external and internal…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     12 seventh section provides, that families coming hero to reside temporarily, may bring with them and take away their slaves; and the sixth section contains the following provision: “Any person not being…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     13 justice. A denial of this comity is unheard of among civilized nations, and if deliberately and wantonly persisted in, would be just cause of war. Governor Johnson, of Virginia, made it…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     14 1880 seems to have been intended to place this beyond doubt (see sect. 16, p. 559). It is “Every person born within this State, whether white or colored, is FREE (the…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     15 THE CASE IN THE COURT OF APPEALS. The case came on for argument in the Court of Appeals on the 24th day of January 1860, before the full bench, George F.…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     16 York, except for the mere purpose of such passage as aforesaid; and that the said Juliet Lemmon was so on her way, in transitu, as aforesaid, with the said eight slaves…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     17 of its own members, endowed by nature with mental and physical equality, must ever be repugnant to an enlightened sense of justice. Of course, the colonists abhorred it, saw that it…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     18 by the sages of the English law in theory, though often violated in practice. ( c.) For proofs of this acknowledgment we refer to the habitual definition of judicial power— jus…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     19 for his tendencies to usurp the power of making law than for any inclination to diminish prerogative or to defend the liberty of his white fellow-subjects. The pride of office, the…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     20 (4.) When Justinian says in his Institutes, Book I, tit. 2, § 2, and elsewhere, that slavery is contrary to the law of nature, he means no more than that it…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     21 IV. In fact there is no violation of the principles of enlightened justice nor any departure from the dictates of pure benevolence in holding negroes in a state of slavery. (1.)…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     22 for the enjoyment of mental and physical luxuries, in proportion to the measure of his capacity and attainments. And all this is at the cost of the mechanical and agricultural laborer,…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     23 III. Whatever others may do, no American judge can pronounce slave property an exception to this rule upon the general ground that slavery is immoral or unjust. Every American citizen is…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     24 peaceably passing through her territory with his slaves or other property on a lawful visit to a State where slavery is allowed by law. I. Congress has power “to regulate commerce…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     25 Per Baldwin J. Groves v. Slaughter, 15 Peters, 510, 511, 513, 515, 516, in point as to slaves. See Argt. of Mr. Clay, 15 Peters, 489, Mr. Webster, p. 495. R.…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     26 III. This section, like its brother in the judicial article, applies only to the stranger. The moment a citizen of Virginia ceasing from his journey, sits down in the State of…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     27 lasts, will hold in its hand the power of dissolving our whole social system. Evil passions or some new fanaticism might at any moment set that power in motion. Sixth Point.…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     28 in the fundamental institutions of our country, where, with full power to accomplish the fell purpose, he may lurk until the hour when it shall be his pleasure to apply the…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     29 deviate from the cool, calm, deliberate method which the practice requires to be observed both by counsel and by the bench, in the prosecution of judicial inquiries. I say this much,…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     30 Through appropriate legislative and executive action, two sovereign States have placed themselves before the Courts and the public, as the contestants. On the one side stands the State of New York,…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     31 of all their rights, their associations and domestic relations unimpaired and unaffected, during the period of their sojourn with us. We engaged that they might, leave our territory with unimpaired rights…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     32 who may bring their slaves into the State, with the intention of remaining. Such an interpretation would compel a reversal of the judgment below and a restoration of these slaves to…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     33 negro-slavery; and they will tell you that it is a monstrous outrage against natural justice; that all good and honest men are bound by the obligations of conscience to employ every…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     34 any court of justice in this State, or in any State of the Union, at this day, to pronounce such a sentence as that, preliminarily to an inquiry into the import…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     35 recognize and was fundamentally hostile to slavery. I speak as if the English settled this State. That, I believe, is a proposition of law undeniable in this court, whether in point…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     36 might well lead us to wish never had been exhibited. The original lords of the soil were thought not too elevated to become bondmen, and they too were held in slavery.…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     37 Any lawyer will admit that this doctrine of Lord Mansfield was the merest of truisms; what is not known to the existing law cannot be incorporated into the national jurisprudence, except…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     38 its admitted lawfulness by complicated and elaborate provisions for its protection. That, too, was the slavery of white men equal in natural gifts with those who held them in bondage. There…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     39 constitution, as it is written and adopted by his country, has a right, in the exercise of his judicial power, to employ this natural understanding of justice in opposition to the…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     40 How can my learned friends, with their avowed principles, withhold from John Brown the tribute of their admiration, or from his deeds the sanction of their approval. It will be seen,…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860
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    People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant | Lemmon slave case     41 invariably put forth in passing ill-considered remarks and in a very crude and general way. The law of which they speak has no practical influence or operation, and the writers who…
    • Contributor: New York (State) - Napoleon, Louis - Lemmon, Jonathan - New York (State). Court of Appeals
    • Date: 1860

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Title

  • Report of the Lemmon slave case : containing points and arguments of counsel on both sides, and opinions of all the judges

Other Title

  • People of the state of New York on the relation of Louis Napoleon, respondents, against Jonathan Lemmon ... of Virginia, appellant
  • Lemmon slave case

Names

  • New York (State). Court of Appeals
  • Napoleon, Louis, active 1852-1860, respondent
  • Lemmon, Jonathan, active 1852-1860, appellant
  • New York (State), respondent

Created / Published

  • New York : H. Greeley & Co., 1860.

Headings

  • -  Slavery--United States--Legal status of enslaved persons in free states
  • -  African Americans--New York (State)
  • -  New York (State)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans
  • -  Napoleon, Louis,--active 1852-1860,--respondent
  • -  Lemmon, Jonathan,--active 1852-1860,--appellant

Notes

  • -  Case presented for argument in the New York Court of Appeals on January 24, 1860. cf. p. 15.

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  • 146 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KF4545.S5 N49 1860
  • KF4545.S5 N49 1860a Variant issue. Prices given at foot of t.p.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 03020167

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  • 3789029

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New York . Court Of Appeals, Louis Napoleon, Jonathan Lemmon, and Respondent New York. Report of the Lemmon slave case: containing points and arguments of counsel on both sides, and opinions of all the judges. New York: H. Greeley & Co, 1860. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/03020167/.

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New York . Court Of Appeals, Napoleon, L., Lemmon, J. & New York, R. (1860) Report of the Lemmon slave case: containing points and arguments of counsel on both sides, and opinions of all the judges. New York: H. Greeley & Co. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/03020167/.

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New York . Court Of Appeals, et al. Report of the Lemmon slave case: containing points and arguments of counsel on both sides, and opinions of all the judges. New York: H. Greeley & Co, 1860. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/03020167/>.