...has told us that language must be construed strictly in favor of liberty and justice. It has told us where rights are infringed, where fundamental principles are overthrown, where the general system of the law is departed from, the Legislative intention must be expressed with irresistible clearness, to induce...

...implication. Wood v. Tunnicliff, 74 NY 38, 43. Where rights are infringed, 644 76 NEW YORK SUPPLEMENT (Sup. Ct where fundamental principles are overthrown, where...laws is departed from, the legislative intention must he expressed with irresistible clearness, to induce a court of justice to suppose a design to effect...

...thus laid down by Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of United States v. Fisher, 2 Cranch, 390. " Where rights are infringed, where fundamental principles...overthrown, where the general system of the laws is 15* departed from, the legislative intention must be expressed with irresistible clearness, to induce...

...general system of the law is departed from, a legislative intention must be expressed with irreristible clearness to induce a court of justice to suppose a design to effect rack objects."J The constitutional provision regarding the slave trade, cautions in its phraseology,...