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Updated: June 11, 2025
The whole question, therefore, resolves itself into the consent or non-consent of the local authority; and herein lies the absurdity of both extreme sectional dogmas of Congressional power to prohibit and Congressional power to permit, both conceding ultimate power in the State legislatures to establish or prohibit slavery, and denying it to the territorial legislatures, in the face of the admitted fact that it is not the Congress, but the local authority that must ultimately decide.
The metropolitan tribunal, while admitting the first two grounds, namely, the absence of witnesses and of the proper priest, based its decision principally on the non-consent of the Emperor. The diocesan tribunal had declared that to atone for the infringement of the laws of the Church, Napoleon and Josephine should be compelled to bestow a sum of money to the poor of the parish of Notre Dame.
Had the matter of consent or non-consent of slaves been consulted as to negro slavery, we have no reason for believing that the negro would ever have had his freedom.
"But," he continued, in a honeyed tone, "Monsieur le baron, on such occasions our duties are preceded by efforts at conciliation Deign, therefore, to have the goodness to listen to me It is in evidence that Mademoiselle Ginevra di Piombo attains this very day the age at which the law allows a respectful summons before proceeding to the celebration of a marriage in spite of the non-consent of the parents.
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