Speaking of slavery there, he says, "It is shocking to humanity, violative of every generous sentiment, abhorrent utterly from the Christian religion-There cannot be a more dangerous maxim than that necessity is a plea for injustice, for who shall fix the degree of this necessity?
"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I"
Thomas Clarkson
"To withhold his commission, therefore," said Marshall, "is an act deemed by the Court not warranted by law, but violative of a legal vested right."
"Union and Democracy"
Allen Johnson
He may have required them to bring other Heathens under a form of servitude violative of the general morality of his word.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society