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Dred Scott
The Decision in the Dred Scott Case. Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 3-16-1857 American At a single blow it shatters and destroys the platform of the Republican party. |
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The Decision in the Supreme Court. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 3-9-1857 American The decision just made in the Dred Scott case, an obscure African, by the Supreme Court of the United States, is probably the most important that ever emanated from that highest tribunal of our country. |
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Dred Scott
The Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case. Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat Little Rock, Arkansas 4-4-1857 American The Black Republican papers, with but few exceptions, so far as we have seen, are down upon the Supreme Court, for their decision in the Dred Scott case. |
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Dred Scott
The Dred Scott Case and the Missouri Compromise Natchez Daily Courier Natchez, Mississippi 3-14-1857 American This is a seeming blow at the doctrine of squatter sovereignty, but not quite as hard a one as we could wish the Court had given. |
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Sun Baltimore, Maryland 3-11-1857 American we can but foresee that this decision will create, everywhere, a profound sensation |
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Dred Scott
Sun Baltimore, Maryland 3-10-1857 American the United States Supreme Court decides the unconstitutionality of the Missouri compromise act, and rules that a colored man cannot be a citizen of the United States |
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Sumner Caning
Boston Daily Bee Boston, Massachusetts 5-23-1856 American An outrage so gross and villianous was neverbefore committed within the walls of the Capitol. |
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Sumner Caning
Congress and the Sumner Assault. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-28-1856 American Let the root of the evil be aimed at, by a prompt and determined "call to order" immediately on the first digression from the proper parliamentary discourse, and we may then escape any more such scenes as disgrace the body and tend to provoke violence. |
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Sumner Caning
Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-15-1856 American These two gentlemen have all at once become prominent characters and objects of public sympathy in their respective sections of country. |
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Sumner Caning
Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 5-27-1856 American His assault upon Mr. S., a member of the Senate, upon the floor of the Senate, was a great outrage upon that body, and cannot be justified or excused. |
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Sumner Caning
Sun Baltimore, Maryland 6-9-1856 American Senator Wilson, in a speech at Worcester said, that when he and others were conveying Mr. Sumner to his lodgings, Mr. S. remarked: "I shall give it to them again if God spares my life. |
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Sumner Caning
Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 6-6-1856 American We copy the following from the Charleston Mercury: |
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Sumner Caning
Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 5-28-1856 American It is monstrous that a member of the House of Representatives should beat a Senator upon the floor of the Senate for a speech made in the Senate |
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Sumner Caning
Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 6-5-1856 American The course of a portion of the Southern press is no less reprehensible in applauding the brutal and deadly assault of Brooks upon the person of a United States Senator upon the floor of the Senate chamber. |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 6-6-1856 American in censuring the attack, let not the cause be forgotten |
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Daily Herald Wilmington, North Carolina 5-26-1856 American he has yet given a good handle for the Northern people to seize, in denunciation of his course, and deprived the South of the opportunity of justification |
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Sumner Caning
Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 6-4-1856 American They speak of Sumner as a martyr to the Freesoil sentiment of the North. |
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Sumner Caning
Richmond Daily Whig Richmond, Virginia 5-31-1856 American the Abolition wretch, with his Abolition physicians as accomplices in the trick, is playing possum. |
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Sumner Caning
Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 5-24-1856 American A pitched battle has long been raging between the champions of those two States, and generally the harshest and most offensive language has come from the South Carolinians |
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Sumner Caning
Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-24-1856 American It is seldom, perhaps, that a more general feeling of disapprobation has been felt and expressed in regard to a circumstance of the kind, than is called forth on all hands by the outrage and descration commited by the Hon. Mr. Brooks, of S. C., in his recent assault upon Senator Sumner, in the Senate Chamber, on Thursday last. |
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Sumner Caning
Richmond Daily Whig Richmond, Virginia 6-7-1859 American A member of Congress may say what he pleases in his place; but if he publishes his speech, he becomes amenable to the law of libel or the cudgel |
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Sumner Caning
The Progress of the Revolution. Richmond Daily Whig Richmond, Virginia 6-4-1859 American To speak of feeling an insult as a wound would be to them an unintelligible jargon. |
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Sumner Caning
Sun Baltimore, Maryland 6-3-1856 American Mr. Brooks, of S. C., has been burned in effigy at Cambridge, Mass.. |
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Sumner Caning
Violence in the Senate Chamber. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-23-1856 American Scarcely a session of Congress passes in which the public ear is not abused with violence of some sort in one or other of the houses of Congress, or among the members elsewhere. |
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