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	Dred Scott AGITATION OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-17-1857 Democratic if they would let us alone and leave slavery to the states, and to the same protection and privileges enjoyed by all other property under the Constitution, the agitation of the question would come to an end on the instant.
	Dred Scott Dred Scott's Case. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-12-1857 Democratic the black republicans have wasted more breath, ink and time on the Missouri compromise
	Dred Scott Highly Important Decision. Weekly North Carolina Standard Raleigh, North Carolina 3-11-1857 Democratic The Supreme Court of the United States, on Friday last, delivered through Chief Justice Taney its decision in the Dred Scott case, containing the following opinions:
	Dred Scott Republican Insincerity. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 3-16-1857 Democratic Since the demise of the late Republican Party on the fifth of November, a post mortem has revealed some of the principal causes of the the brevity of its life, which before was but partially known, for the depth of its corruption and canker sores could not be probed while the body was shrieking and struggling.
	Dred Scott SUPREME COURT vs. THE ABOLITIONISTS. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-13-1857 Democratic Abolitionism must now unmask, and wage its warfare openly and above board against the government
	Dred Scott The Decision of the Supreme Court. Weekly North Carolina Standard Raleigh, North Carolina 3-18-1857 Democratic We publish to-day, at length, the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, delivered by Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case.
	Dred Scott THE DRED SCOTT CASE. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-10-1857 Democratic in contradistinction to and in repudiation of the diabolical doctrines inculcated by factionists and fanatics; and that too by a tribunal of jurists, as learned, impartial and unprejudiced as perhaps the world has ever seen.
	Dred Scott The Dred Scott Decision: Its Legal and Political Consequences New Orleans Daily Delta New Orleans, Louisiana 3-19-1857 Democratic The late formal decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case has been undergoing the most vigorous and untiring explanation and discussion in the New York journals, and no end of incomprehensible legal profundity is employed to mystify the few intelligible points of constitutionality and law contained in the decision.
	Dred Scott The Important Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Slavery Question. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 3-8-1857 Democratic This is a complete vindication of the doctrine of the Nebraska Bill
	Dred Scott The Issue must be met. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 3-31-1857 Democratic The late decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Dred Scott case, will bring the enemies of the South face to face with the Constitution of their country.
	Dred Scott The Millennium at Last. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 3-27-1857 Democratic we shall acquire, by the decision of the Supreme Court, not one right more than they granted to us before -- not one foot of slave territory more than we would have acquired without it.
	Dred Scott The Past and the Future. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 3-17-1857 Democratic slavery is guaranteed by the constitutional compact.
	Dred Scott The Question Settled. -- Black Republicanism vs. the Constitution. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hampshire 3-18-1857 Democratic It utterly demolishes the whole black republican platform and stamps it as directly antagonistical to the constitution.
	Dred Scott The Unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 3-11-1857 Democratic The opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case in which seven of the nine Judges concur, is unquestionably the most important one in itself, and its bearings upon the leading political question of the day that has been pronounced within the present century.
	John Brown A Caution. Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 10-9-1859 Democratic These journals thus make themselves the agents, which abolitionism desires, for sending its tracts into the midst of the South, and, under professions of friendship, do the work of our deadliest foes.
	John Brown An Insurrection Without Negroes Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 12-4-1859 Democratic the negroes of Virginia are not insurrectionally inclined.
	John Brown Anti-Slavery Blasphemy. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 12-7-1859 Democratic several lives, of unoffending victims, are without the least provocation and most wantonly taken away by lawless violence, yet not a word of reproof is heard from our pulpits.
	John Brown Brown Republican Sympathizers. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 11-9-1859 Democratic If abolitionism and republicanism are identical in New York, they are equally in so Illinois.
	John Brown Brown's Foray. Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 11-8-1859 Democratic Now that John Brown's foray upon Virginia is over and the surviving ringleaders are under doom for their crimes, the agitation which has greatly subsided at the South continues to grow and increase at the North.
	John Brown Don't Like Their Own Medicine. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 10-29-1859 Democratic he was backed up and sustained by money and arms obtained from Abolitionists and Republicans of the North
	John Brown Gerrit Smith's Insanity. Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 11-11-1859 Democratic None of these are improbable effects of the Harper's Ferry events on a man of Gerrit Smith's temperament, history frailties and fanaticisms
	John Brown Important Disclosures -- Seward and Chase -- Harper's Ferry. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 10-28-1859 Democratic the leading Abolition Republicans of the free states were privy to it
	John Brown Military Aid to Virginia. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-28-1859 Democratic We are satisfied that every intelligent man in the South has been completely disgusted at the broad and pathetic farce that has been played off before the public about the hanging of that hoary villain, "OLD BROWN."
	John Brown Mr. Wendell Phillips Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-5-1859 Democratic Avarice alone keeps them in association with us -- avarice gratified at our submission to their policy of plunder and [sic] aggrandisement.
	John Brown MURDER AND TREASON vs. PATRIOTISM. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-4-1859 Democratic the Tribune considers the act of Brown as the act of a patriot
	John Brown No False Issue. Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 11-3-1859 Democratic Giddings and Smith would desire no better position -- for giving them a strength, beyond that which either can hope to possess as Abolitionists, within the free States -- than to be made the subject of a formal demand for transfer to Virginia
	John Brown No Title. Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 11-1-1859 Democratic if this man should be caught, and made to suffer the penalties of his crimes, we suppose he would be elevated to the rank of a "martyr" in the calendar of Abolitionism, where Marat, Couthon, and Robespierre ought to stand.
	John Brown Our Harper's Ferry and Charlestown News. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 12-3-1859 Democratic We rejoice that old BROWN has been hung
	John Brown Pardon for John Brown. Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 11-16-1859 Democratic Some such answer will Virginia give to the clamorous outcry that comes to her from the free States for mercy to John Brown.
	John Brown Prayers and Sneers. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 12-6-1859 Democratic a scoundrel and traitor has paid the just penalty of the laws.
	John Brown The Abolition Insurrection at Harper's Ferry -- The Irrepressible Conflict begun. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 11-1-1859 Democratic this was a regularly concocted, and premeditated attempt of Abolition Fanatics to overthrow the Government, and emancipate the slaves.
	John Brown The Abolitionists of the North Implicated in the Harper's Ferry Insurrection. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 10-20-1859 Democratic the Northern Abolitionists are implicated and are at the bottom of the Harper's Ferry conspiracy.
	John Brown The Cloud in the Distance No Bigger then a Man's Hand" - The First Battle of the "Irrepressible Conflict." Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 10-19-1859 Democratic It was an Abolitionplot to free the negroes ofMaryland and Virginia at the point of the bayonet.
	John Brown The Democratic Party and Old Brown. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-8-1859 Democratic To weaken, subject and use the South, but not to lose her, is their policy.
	John Brown The Harper's Ferry Affair. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 10-26-1859 Democratic the dangerous tendencies of the pernicious doctrines which, during a few years past, have been so zealously taught and advocated by political leaders and partisan preachers here at the North.
	John Brown The Harper's Ferry Affair. Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 10-25-1859 Democratic The whole affair dwindles into utter insignificance as the literal facts are brought out from the uncertainty peculiar to the first demonstration.
	John Brown The Harper's Ferry Insurrection. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 10-19-1859 Democratic a concerted movement of abolitionists and their black victims in southern States
	John Brown The Harper's Ferry Invasion as Party Capital. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 10-25-1859 Democratic The vile clamor of party, the struggle of Republicanism for power, has given an impetus to the abolition zeal of old Brown and his comrades
	John Brown The Harper's Ferry Tragedy. State Gazette Austin, Texas 11-5-1859 Democratic The bloody tragedy which we have endeavored to relate in our columns is at least some evidence of the influence of Black Republican agitation upon the masses of the Northern people.
	John Brown The Insurrection Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 10-21-1859 Democratic It is a warning profoundly symptomatic of the future of the Union with our sectional enemies.
	John Brown The New York Elections and their Meaning. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-24-1859 Democratic there are men whose minds are so blindly and determinedly fixed on preserving the Union, at all events, that nothing, short of the very fires of insurrection at their own homes, and the abduction of their property when Black Republican policy shall come to its consummation in the last grand catastrophe, can wean from vain hopes of northern magnanimity, or wake from the delusive dreams of future peace.
	John Brown The Plan of Insurrection. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-1-1859 Democratic Although BROWN'S effort at an insurrection has been silly and abortive, the developments are rapidly showing that a wide-spread scheme was maturing at the North for insurrections throughout the South.
	John Brown The Rules of Ossawatamie. State Gazette Austin, Texas 12-3-1859 Democratic no pull quote designated
	John Brown The True Lesson. Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 10-30-1859 Democratic It is a very careless use of words to describe the Harper's Ferry outbreak as a "negro insurrection," or "slave insurrection," as is frequently done by presses
	John Brown Virginia and the Fate of the Invaders Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-14-1859 Democratic A question of policy to avoid giving occasion for their wailings and denunciations for the doom of their unfortunate confreres, pioneering the way to universal emancipation at the South!
	John Brown Virginia. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-28-1859 Democratic No one in the South could have watched the course of the Virginia statesmen and public presses since her sad fall in 1852, without marking her steady drifting to an anti-Southern nationalism.
	John Brown What is "Kansas Work?" Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 10-29-1859 Democratic viewed in its true light, how there can be any question that it forms a part, and an important part, of the criminal transaction
	John Brown Where is the Responsibility? Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 10-25-1859 Democratic Reports speak of discoveries of correspondence with noted abolitionists and proofs of concert with notorious men in the Northern and Western States.
	John Brown Writhing of the Serpent. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 10-27-1859 Democratic The excuses of the black republican press are as various and conflicting as they are shallow.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) A Contest of Principle. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-10-1854 Democratic The only serious danger to the permanency of our institutions is the proclivity of the central power to interfere in the rights of the States.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) A Crisis. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-27-1854 Democratic But whether slavery would or would not go to Nebraska, is not the question. That must be left to the people, whom we must learn to trust.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) A Little Strange. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-10-1854 Democratic Let not abolitionists talk to us of the sacredness of compromises! Nothing is sacred with them.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Abolitionism. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-30-1854 Democratic If the Journal editor would not be classed as an abolitionist, he should not fulminate abolition doctrines.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Another Greely Forgery. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-13-1854 Democratic Since the introduction of a Nebraska bill Greely has been busily engaged in fabricating public opinion against it.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Excitement in Congress. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-4-1854 Democratic The principle of Congressional non intervention in the domestic affairs of the States and Territories is strongly intrenched in the popular heart.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Explicit. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-11-1854 Democratic Shall, or shall not, the people of the Territories be permitted to manage their own affairs in their own way?
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Glorious News from Washington -- Passage of the Nebraska Bill. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 5-24-1854 Democratic Those who desire to keep the disturbing and distracting subject of slavery in Congress, as an eternal bone of contention between the North and the South, instead of referring its decision to those to whom it legitimately belongs, will, of course, send up a howl of rage over the result, which, to them, is so calamitous.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Illiberal. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 3-14-1854 Democratic With such a showing as this, the Whig paper at the South, that raises its voice against Northern Democrats, should call up on the mountains and the rocks to fall on them and hide them forever from the gaze of honest and patriotic men.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Let the People Rule. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-4-1854 Democratic And it is this same principle, so eloquently advanced by Clay and Webster and the Democratic statesmen who went with them in that movement, that is incorporated in the new bill for Nebraska
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Meeting in New York. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-4-1854 Democratic we expect to see abolition attempting now to cloak its head under the mantle of good faith, and cry aloud for the maintenance of pledges, while it presses forward its own wicked objects.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Michigan and the Nebraska Question. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-3-1854 Democratic no effort at agitation, either on the part of abolition, whig or "independent" papers, can move that sentiment from the firm base on which it stands.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Mr. Brooks's Speech Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 3-21-1854 Democratic it places the claims of the bill to Southern support on the true ground of the equal constitutional rights of all the States in the Territories
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Mr. Douglass' Speech. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-7-1854 Democratic We furnish our readers to-day with the first half of Senator Douglas' speech on the territorial bill.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Mr. Everett's Position -- Necessity of Mr. Douglas' Bill. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-15-1854 Democratic Let democratic statesmen, at least, be consistent, and cling to the republican doctrine of non-intervention.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Nebraska - Mr. Douglas's Report. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 1-16-1854 Democratic We commend Mr. Douglas' report not only for the ability with which it is prepared, but for the sound, national, Union-loving sentiments, with which it abounds.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Nebraska. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 1-23-1854 Democratic the North and the South ought to unite in sweeping it into the rubbish of extinct legislative anomalies
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Nebraska. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-4-1854 Democratic Senator DOUGLAS made a powerful speech in vindication of the Nebraska bill
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) New Territories. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-6-1854 Democratic It is no part of the business of Congress to legislate for the territories.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 1-30-1854 Democratic The persons who have been busiest in charging the Administration with favoring Free Soilism, are now "standing upon the other tack," and assert that the Administration is doing all it can for the benefit of slavery!
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-2-1854 Democratic As we are a little oblivious respecting the "loud-mouthed attacks of the democratic press," which the Courant alludes to, will the editor be good enough to produce them?
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-2-1854 Democratic The only mode of relief we can think of, will be to elect the editor a delegate to the great "Hen convention
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-4-1854 Democratic The abolitionists, free soilers, and free soil whigs, the Boston Post thinks, had better save their breath to cool their porridge, instead of wasting it in denunciation of the Nebraska bill.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-6-1854 Democratic its sole object is to confirm the principles of the Compromise of 1850, and remove the question of slavery from the National Councils.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-14-1854 Democratic Whiggery lives upon such excitements.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. Mississippian Jackson, Mississippi 3-31-1854 Democratic we have no fanatical women roving over the country and bringing reproach upon the community in which they live, by mingling in affairs which pertain to the sterner sex, we have no preachers who convert the sacred desk into an arena of sectional strife, and whose blasphemies make the very angels weep.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) One Hundred Guns for Nebraska! New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 5-24-1854 Democratic At sunrise this morning, one hundred guns were fired from the Public Square, by order of the Democratic Town Committee, in honor of the passage of the bill
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Out of the Woods at Last. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-29-1854 Democratic We are glad to get rid of it.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Parties -- will they be Sectional? Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 3-28-1854 Democratic We have too much confidence in the magnanimity, good sense and prudence of many Northern Democratic Statesmen, to despair of National Parties at this time.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Passage of the Nebraska Bill in the House. Mississippian Jackson, Mississippi 6-2-1854 Democratic it achieves the great object of removing from Congressional interference the slavery question
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Passage of the Nebraska Bill. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 5-26-1854 Democratic It has not been our opinion that the South would gain any very decisive advantage by the passage of the Nebraska bill in its present shape
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Passage of the Nebraska Bill. Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat Little Rock, Arkansas 9-6-1854 Democratic The final passage of the Nebraska bill, through the Senate, was publicly announced by the roaring cannon.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Renewal of the Slavery Agitation. -- The Nebraska Bill. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 2-1-1854 Democratic the selfish schemes of trading politicians who seek to get up another abolition mania in the hope of thereby getting into office.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-3-1854 Democratic distinctly and unequivocally in favor of repealing all the anti-slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Rights of Minorities Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-27-1854 Democratic As Mr. CALHOUN observed, governments were formed to protect minorities -- majorities can take care of themselves.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Senator Douglas -- the Nebraska Bill. Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat Little Rock, Arkansas 2-3-1854 Democratic It is predicted that this report and bill will re-open the slavery agitation, both North and South.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Senator Douglas' Speech -- The Nebraska Question. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 2-11-1854 Democratic the able and unanswerable speech of Judge Douglas upon the Nebraska Territorial bill
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Senator Douglas-- Squatter Sovereignty Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-14-1854 Democratic So far therefore from these governments being empowered to exclude slavery, any action they may take upon the subject, would be a matter for discussion and decision, both by Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Senator Douglas. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-6-1854 Democratic We are able to do only imperfect justice to the speech of this distinguished Senator in defence of the territorial bill
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Slavery Agitation Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 6-3-1854 Democratic the passage of the Nebraska Bill is the renewal of agitation of the subject of slavery, under circumstances, too, of unprecedented intensity and bitterness.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Slavery in the New Territories. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-15-1854 Democratic It is simply recognizing, to its proper limit, the great principle of the right of the people, every where, to self-government.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Speech of Judge Douglas on the Nebraska Bill. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 2-14-1854 Democratic We regret to learn that several whig papers at the South, such as the National Intelligencer, the Louisville Journal, and the New Orleans Bulletin are out in opposition to the Nebraska Bill.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Speech of Mr. Douglas -- Renewal of the Slavery Agitation -- Its object. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 2-1-1854 Democratic We have seldom read an abler or more conclusive argument in support of any measure
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Squatter Sovereignty. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 4-18-1854 Democratic We see a disposition in some quarters of the Democratic party to discuss the question of Squatter Sovereignty as applied to the Nebraska Bill.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Cloven Foot! New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-1-1854 Democratic The Compromise of 1850 is well understood to be a "finality" -- superceding all previous action, and designed to stop all agitation of the slavery question, in or out of Congress.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Crisis in Congress -- Duty of the Majority Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 5-15-1854 Democratic The principle of the power of the majority is essential to the authority of government, and should not be sacrificed to those technical rules which are ordained for the protection of the rights of a minority.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Crisis. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-21-1854 Democratic it must be apparent to every one who looks upon the Congressional proceedings, that the whig organization, as a National party is ended
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Democracy and the Union New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 1-9-1854 Democratic That not only the administration, but the Democracy of the whole country will show their determination to stand by these measures, and to practically apply them whenever in the organization of territorial and State governments, or otherwise, the same principles shall arise, we feel the fullest confidence.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Dividing Line. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-18-1854 Democratic The battle is between popular constitutional rights on the one hand, and the encroachments of the central power on the other.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Duty of the South Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 2-16-1854 Democratic On our side we have the whole power of the Federal government and the moral support of a sound public sentiment
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Feeling in the South. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-2-1854 Democratic Northern journals betray a gross misrepresentation of the temper of the public mind of the South
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Importance of the Early Passage of the Nebraska Bill. Mississippian Jackson, Mississippi 4-21-1854 Democratic The condition on which the Democracy of the slave-holding States co-operate with their brethren of the North, is that of non-interference with the rights of slave-holding States, and opposition to Congressional legislation, which discriminates in any form against the property of one section of the Union
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Journal on Alien Suffrage Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-13-1854 Democratic Its daily conglomerate, hashed up from Greely's mint of festering misrepresentation, calumny, and impotent malice, finds no response with the people of Illinois.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Missouri Compromise -- How the Question Stands. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-2-1854 Democratic We deny to Congress the power to either establish slavery or to prohibit it, in a Territory or a State.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Nebraska Bill Passed. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 5-30-1854 Democratic the South has learned that she has many friends at the North upon whom she may rely for justice in the hour of need.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Nebraska Bill. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-3-1854 Democratic There never was a more needless excitement than that which the whig press is trying to raise on this subject.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Nebraska Bill. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 5-19-1854 Democratic The opponents of the Nebraska bill failed in their disorganizing efforts to defeat this measure by legislative trickery
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Nebraska Bill. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 5-31-1854 Democratic it will tend to remove from the halls of Congress the slavery controversy, and to transfer it to the people
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Nebraska Bill. Abolitionism. Union Washington, D. C. 1-15-1854 Democratic his proposition is regarded by abolitionists as a death-blow totheir hope of making the slavery question available forfuture political excitement.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Nebraska Question Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 1-25-1854 Democratic The union of the Democracy on this proposition will dissipate forever the charges of free soil sympathies so recklessly and pertinaciously urged against the administration by our Whig opponents
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Non-Intervention Principle. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 1-31-1854 Democratic Now is the time to give practical effect to the leading principles which triumphed in the election of Pierce.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Object of the Compromise of 1850. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-6-1854 Democratic take the whole question out of the hands of Congress, and give it into the charge of the people interested in it
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Organization of New Territories. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-10-1854 Democratic all questions pertaining to slavery in the Territories, and in the new States to be formed therefrom, are to be left to the decision of the people residing therein
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Present Crisis. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-9-1854 Democratic When abolitionism shall be finally crushed out of Congress, no other question can soon arise whose tendency will be to disturb the relations of cordiality which naturally subsist between the two great divisions of the country.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The South and the New York Factions. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 1-26-1854 Democratic It is perhaps, well for the South that parties at the North stand thus committed
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Territorial Question. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-12-1854 Democratic it takes the right ground essentially, and we have no doubt that the nation will sustain it.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Territorial Question. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-13-1854 Democratic The bill for the organization of Nebraska, like the Compromise Measures, is common ground upon which all sections can meet.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) What is Nebraska? Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-8-1854 Democratic But the position of the Abolitionists on this question is not only treacherous, but it makes also the legislation of the country absurdly inconsistent.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) What is the Nebraska Bill? Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 3-23-1854 Democratic Whether time and consultation, and the various influences that work on the minds of Members of Congress, will increase the number of supporters of the bill, remains to be seen.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) WHIG OPPOSITION TO THE NEBRASKA BILL. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 2-7-1854 Democratic we apprehend before the struggle is over, the majority of the active and aspiring Whigs of the South will be found in opposition to the repeal of the Missouri restriction.
	Sumner Caning A Constitutional Caning. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 6-11-1856 Democratic Brooks declares that, as the constitution provides that no member of either House of Congress shall be held responsible for words spoken in debate, that it would have been to have caned Sumner anywhere else than the place designated by the Constitution.
	Sumner Caning A Lie upon its Face. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 5-29-1856 Democratic Senator Sumner has floored himself much worse than Brooks did by the following foolish and false attempt to drag Senator Douglas into personal difficulty with Brooks.
	Sumner Caning A New Era. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic Was the like of this ever before published in a newspaper in South Carolina?
	Sumner Caning A NORTHERN FREE REPUBLIC: STAND BY THE UNION. Boston Post Boston, Massachusetts 6-3-1856 Democratic Madness rules the hour, in nullification-ridden Massachusetts.
	Sumner Caning An Atrocious Speech and a Disgraceful Assault. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 5-23-1856 Democratic It was an atrocious speech. But its atrocity did not warrant the personal assault upon him by a South Carolina member of the House of Representatives.
	Sumner Caning Another Richmond in the Field. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 5-26-1856 Democratic Senator Sumner is the man for Fusion Candidate for President.
	Sumner Caning Assault in the United States Senate Chamber. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 5-26-1856 Democratic Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate.
	Sumner Caning Assault in the United States Senate Chamber. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 5-26-1856 Democratic Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate.
	Sumner Caning Assault upon Mr. Sumner. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 5-28-1856 Democratic Sumner's speech was of such a character as to provoke the result which has followed
	Sumner Caning Brooks and Sumner. Mobile Daily Register Mobile, Alabama 6-6-1856 Democratic Greeley and his crowd are sharply ridiculous in their remarks, and their attempt to make political capital out of it, is so palpable, as to destroy, in a great measure, the effect of the venom they spit forth.
	Sumner Caning BROOKS AND SUMNER. Carolina Spartan Spartanburg, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic Few in South Carolina will withhold applause from Col. Brooks for his castigation of a man who to a foul tongue adds the crime of perjury.
	Sumner Caning CAPT. BROOKS' CASTIGATION OF SENATOR SUMNER. Edgefield Advertiser Edgefield, South Carolina 5-28-1856 Democratic we have borne insult long enough, and now let the conflict come if it must.
	Sumner Caning COL. BROOKS AND SUMNER Yorkville Enquirer Yorkville, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic If ever a high-minded man can be justified in promptly resenting insult and injury, surely Col. Brooks will receive from the people of his own State, at least, the mead of a most cordial approval.
	Sumner Caning Congressman Brooks' Assault on Senator Sumner. Vermont Patriot & State Gazette Montpelier, Vermont 5-30-1856 Democratic The remarks made by Mr. Sumner, which provoked this assault, were malignant and insulting beyond anything ever uttered in coolness upon the floor of the Senate.
	Sumner Caning Exciting Debate in the Senate -- Senator Sumner Whipped! Weekly North Carolina Standard Raleigh, North Carolina 5-28-1856 Democratic It was a speech full of abuse of his brother Senators -- full of the vilest and most dangerous appeals against the domestic institutions of the South, and calculated only to increase the strife between the two sections and lead to disunion and civil war.
	Sumner Caning Freedom in Debate. Locomotive Indianapolis, Indiana 5-23-1856 Democratic Freedom of speech should be guarantied to all public men in debate on public questions
	Sumner Caning LIBERTY OF SPEECH, OF THE PRESS, AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 6-3-1856 Democratic A community of Abolitionists could only be governed by a penitentiary system. They are as unfit for liberty as maniacs, criminals, or wild beasts.
	Sumner Caning Mr. Brooks's Letter to the Senate Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 6-6-1856 Democratic We copy below the letter of Mr. BROOKS, addressed to the President of the Senate
	Sumner Caning No Title. Boston Post Boston, Massachusetts 5-24-1856 Democratic The free soil politicians are prompt in their endeavors to make party capital out of this affair.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-28-1856 Democratic SUMNER was well and elegantly whipped, and he richly deserved it.
	Sumner Caning Public Approval of Mr. Brooks. South Carolinian Columbia, South Carolina 5-27-1856 Democratic Meetings of approval and sanction will be held, not only in Mr. Brooks' district, but throughout the State at large, and a general and hearty response of approval will re-echo the words, "Welldone," from Washington to the Rio Grande.
	Sumner Caning Quid Pro Quo. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 5-23-1856 Democratic Superficial and malevolent writers are attemptingto magnify Sumner into a martyr forfreedom and a victim of slavery.
	Sumner Caning Quid Pro Quo. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 5-27-1856 Democratic gentlemen everywhere will admit that Sumner's general tone was neither parliamentary nor gentlemanly
	Sumner Caning RESIGNATION OF BROOKS AND KEITT. Carolina Spartan Spartanburg, South Carolina 7-24-1856 Democratic These gallant gentlemen have done nothing justifying the action of the House, and their constituents will send them back strengthened to battle with the hosts of Black Republicanism
	Sumner Caning SUMNER CANED BY COL. BROOKS Patriot and Mountaineer Greenville, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic he was abusive of Judge BUTLER and Judge DOUGLAS, and denounced all slaveholders as criminals!
	Sumner Caning Sumner in his Seat. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 6-10-1856 Democratic We see that Senator Sumner is not only in his seat but is engaged in debate with Senator Douglas and others.
	Sumner Caning Sumner's Plagiarism. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 6-17-1856 Democratic We are unprepared to say that a man should be cudgeled over the head for the gross crime of plagiarism, but we believe it is a pretty good rule in the old-fashioned schools to give a youth a good licking for that offence.
	Sumner Caning Supremacy of the Law Boston Post Boston, Massachusetts 5-29-1856 Democratic personal violence is of akin to that higher-lawism Which has been so long urged by fanaticism.
	Sumner Caning The Assault on Hon. W. T. Butler. State Gazette Austin, Texas 6-14-1856 Democratic The most serious offence committed in the American Senate, and one which must be promptly rebuked, is the slanderous and dastardly attack upon the South and one of her proudest patriots, by Sumner, the abolitionist leader in the Senate.
	Sumner Caning The Brooks and Sumner difficulty. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 6-3-1856 Democratic We believe there are some kinds of slander and abuse, for the perpetration of which, no office or station should protect a man from deserved punishment.
	Sumner Caning THE BROOKS MEETING. Laurensville Herald Laurensville, South Carolina 6-6-1859 Democratic The first has been struck, which will be felt keener and longer than all the arguments and warnings ever used in Congress by Southern members
	Sumner Caning THE FRACAS IN THE SENATE. Carolina Spartan Spartanburg, South Carolina 6-5-1856 Democratic Intense excitement continues at the North, and the negro worshippers are forging capital from the original occurrence.
	Sumner Caning The Privileges of the Senate Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 6-9-1856 Democratic Precedent is the mask which tyranny wears when it strikes its deadliest blows.
	Sumner Caning The Right View of the Subject Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-30-1856 Democratic The South certainly has become generally convinced that it is by hard blows, and not by loud blustering and insulting denunciation, that the sectional quarrel is to be settled.
	Sumner Caning THE WASHINGTON DIFFICULTY. Laurensville Herald Laurensville, South Carolina 5-30-1859 Democratic we can only give our most hearty indorsement of the conduct of Mr. Brooks
	Sumner Caning True. Vermont Patriot & State Gazette Montpelier, Vermont 6-13-1856 Democratic no portion of our people seem to be so much pleased with the Sumner row and the Kansas troubles as our fusion abolitionists
	Sumner Caning Why don't they denounce? Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 5-28-1856 Democratic Why don't the Democrats denounce the ruffian Brooks?

Dred Scott

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
3-17-1857
Democratic
if they would let us alone and leave slavery to the states, and to the same protection and privileges enjoyed by all other property under the Constitution, the agitation of the question would come to an end on the instant.

Dred Scott

Dred Scott's Case.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
3-12-1857
Democratic
the black republicans have wasted more breath, ink and time on the Missouri compromise

Dred Scott

Highly Important Decision.

Weekly North Carolina Standard
Raleigh, North Carolina
3-11-1857
Democratic
The Supreme Court of the United States, on Friday last, delivered through Chief Justice Taney its decision in the Dred Scott case, containing the following opinions:

Dred Scott

Republican Insincerity.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
3-16-1857
Democratic
Since the demise of the late Republican Party on the fifth of November, a post mortem has revealed some of the principal causes of the the brevity of its life, which before was but partially known, for the depth of its corruption and canker sores could not be probed while the body was shrieking and struggling.

Dred Scott

SUPREME COURT vs. THE ABOLITIONISTS.

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
3-13-1857
Democratic
Abolitionism must now unmask, and wage its warfare openly and above board against the government

Dred Scott

The Decision of the Supreme Court.

Weekly North Carolina Standard
Raleigh, North Carolina
3-18-1857
Democratic
We publish to-day, at length, the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, delivered by Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case.

Dred Scott

THE DRED SCOTT CASE.

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
3-10-1857
Democratic
in contradistinction to and in repudiation of the diabolical doctrines inculcated by factionists and fanatics; and that too by a tribunal of jurists, as learned, impartial and unprejudiced as perhaps the world has ever seen.

Dred Scott

The Dred Scott Decision: Its Legal and Political Consequences

New Orleans Daily Delta
New Orleans, Louisiana
3-19-1857
Democratic
The late formal decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case has been undergoing the most vigorous and untiring explanation and discussion in the New York journals, and no end of incomprehensible legal profundity is employed to mystify the few intelligible points of constitutionality and law contained in the decision.

Dred Scott

The Important Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Slavery Question.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
3-8-1857
Democratic
This is a complete vindication of the doctrine of the Nebraska Bill

Dred Scott

The Issue must be met.

Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia
3-31-1857
Democratic
The late decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Dred Scott case, will bring the enemies of the South face to face with the Constitution of their country.

Dred Scott

The Millennium at Last.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
3-27-1857
Democratic
we shall acquire, by the decision of the Supreme Court, not one right more than they granted to us before -- not one foot of slave territory more than we would have acquired without it.

Dred Scott

The Past and the Future.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
3-17-1857
Democratic
slavery is guaranteed by the constitutional compact.

Dred Scott

The Question Settled. -- Black Republicanism vs. the Constitution.

Daily Patriot
Concord, New Hampshire
3-18-1857
Democratic
It utterly demolishes the whole black republican platform and stamps it as directly antagonistical to the constitution.

Dred Scott

The Unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
3-11-1857
Democratic
The opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case in which seven of the nine Judges concur, is unquestionably the most important one in itself, and its bearings upon the leading political question of the day that has been pronounced within the present century.

John Brown

A Caution.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
10-9-1859
Democratic
These journals thus make themselves the agents, which abolitionism desires, for sending its tracts into the midst of the South, and, under professions of friendship, do the work of our deadliest foes.

John Brown

An Insurrection Without Negroes

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
12-4-1859
Democratic
the negroes of Virginia are not insurrectionally inclined.

John Brown

Anti-Slavery Blasphemy.

Daily Patriot
Concord, New Hamphire
12-7-1859
Democratic
several lives, of unoffending victims, are without the least provocation and most wantonly taken away by lawless violence, yet not a word of reproof is heard from our pulpits.

John Brown

Brown Republican Sympathizers.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
11-9-1859
Democratic
If abolitionism and republicanism are identical in New York, they are equally in so Illinois.

John Brown

Brown's Foray.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
11-8-1859
Democratic
Now that John Brown's foray upon Virginia is over and the surviving ringleaders are under doom for their crimes, the agitation which has greatly subsided at the South continues to grow and increase at the North.

John Brown

Don't Like Their Own Medicine.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
10-29-1859
Democratic
he was backed up and sustained by money and arms obtained from Abolitionists and Republicans of the North

John Brown

Gerrit Smith's Insanity.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
11-11-1859
Democratic
None of these are improbable effects of the Harper's Ferry events on a man of Gerrit Smith's temperament, history frailties and fanaticisms

John Brown

Important Disclosures -- Seward and Chase -- Harper's Ferry.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
10-28-1859
Democratic
the leading Abolition Republicans of the free states were privy to it

John Brown

Military Aid to Virginia.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-28-1859
Democratic
We are satisfied that every intelligent man in the South has been completely disgusted at the broad and pathetic farce that has been played off before the public about the hanging of that hoary villain, "OLD BROWN."

John Brown

Mr. Wendell Phillips

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-5-1859
Democratic
Avarice alone keeps them in association with us -- avarice gratified at our submission to their policy of plunder and [sic] aggrandisement.

John Brown

MURDER AND TREASON vs. PATRIOTISM.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-4-1859
Democratic
the Tribune considers the act of Brown as the act of a patriot

John Brown

No False Issue.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
11-3-1859
Democratic
Giddings and Smith would desire no better position -- for giving them a strength, beyond that which either can hope to possess as Abolitionists, within the free States -- than to be made the subject of a formal demand for transfer to Virginia

John Brown

No Title.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
11-1-1859
Democratic
if this man should be caught, and made to suffer the penalties of his crimes, we suppose he would be elevated to the rank of a "martyr" in the calendar of Abolitionism, where Marat, Couthon, and Robespierre ought to stand.

John Brown

Our Harper's Ferry and Charlestown News.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
12-3-1859
Democratic
We rejoice that old BROWN has been hung

John Brown

Pardon for John Brown.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
11-16-1859
Democratic
Some such answer will Virginia give to the clamorous outcry that comes to her from the free States for mercy to John Brown.

John Brown

Prayers and Sneers.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
12-6-1859
Democratic
a scoundrel and traitor has paid the just penalty of the laws.

John Brown

The Abolition Insurrection at Harper's Ferry -- The Irrepressible Conflict begun.

Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia
11-1-1859
Democratic
this was a regularly concocted, and premeditated attempt of Abolition Fanatics to overthrow the Government, and emancipate the slaves.

John Brown

The Abolitionists of the North Implicated in the Harper's Ferry Insurrection.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
10-20-1859
Democratic
the Northern Abolitionists are implicated and are at the bottom of the Harper's Ferry conspiracy.

John Brown

The Cloud in the Distance No Bigger then a Man's Hand" - The First Battle of the "Irrepressible Conflict."

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
10-19-1859
Democratic
It was an Abolitionplot to free the negroes ofMaryland and Virginia at the point of the bayonet.

John Brown

The Democratic Party and Old Brown.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-8-1859
Democratic
To weaken, subject and use the South, but not to lose her, is their policy.

John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Affair.

Daily Patriot
Concord, New Hamphire
10-26-1859
Democratic
the dangerous tendencies of the pernicious doctrines which, during a few years past, have been so zealously taught and advocated by political leaders and partisan preachers here at the North.

John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Affair.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
10-25-1859
Democratic
The whole affair dwindles into utter insignificance as the literal facts are brought out from the uncertainty peculiar to the first demonstration.

John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Insurrection.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
10-19-1859
Democratic
a concerted movement of abolitionists and their black victims in southern States

John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Invasion as Party Capital.

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
10-25-1859
Democratic
The vile clamor of party, the struggle of Republicanism for power, has given an impetus to the abolition zeal of old Brown and his comrades

John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Tragedy.

State Gazette
Austin, Texas
11-5-1859
Democratic
The bloody tragedy which we have endeavored to relate in our columns is at least some evidence of the influence of Black Republican agitation upon the masses of the Northern people.

John Brown

The Insurrection

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
10-21-1859
Democratic
It is a warning profoundly symptomatic of the future of the Union with our sectional enemies.

John Brown

The New York Elections and their Meaning.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-24-1859
Democratic
there are men whose minds are so blindly and determinedly fixed on preserving the Union, at all events, that nothing, short of the very fires of insurrection at their own homes, and the abduction of their property when Black Republican policy shall come to its consummation in the last grand catastrophe, can wean from vain hopes of northern magnanimity, or wake from the delusive dreams of future peace.

John Brown

The Plan of Insurrection.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-1-1859
Democratic
Although BROWN'S effort at an insurrection has been silly and abortive, the developments are rapidly showing that a wide-spread scheme was maturing at the North for insurrections throughout the South.

John Brown

The Rules of Ossawatamie.

State Gazette
Austin, Texas
12-3-1859
Democratic
no pull quote designated

John Brown

The True Lesson.

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
10-30-1859
Democratic
It is a very careless use of words to describe the Harper's Ferry outbreak as a "negro insurrection," or "slave insurrection," as is frequently done by presses

John Brown

Virginia and the Fate of the Invaders

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-14-1859
Democratic
A question of policy to avoid giving occasion for their wailings and denunciations for the doom of their unfortunate confreres, pioneering the way to universal emancipation at the South!

John Brown

Virginia.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
11-28-1859
Democratic
No one in the South could have watched the course of the Virginia statesmen and public presses since her sad fall in 1852, without marking her steady drifting to an anti-Southern nationalism.

John Brown

What is "Kansas Work?"

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
10-29-1859
Democratic
viewed in its true light, how there can be any question that it forms a part, and an important part, of the criminal transaction

John Brown

Where is the Responsibility?

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, Louisiana
10-25-1859
Democratic
Reports speak of discoveries of correspondence with noted abolitionists and proofs of concert with notorious men in the Northern and Western States.

John Brown

Writhing of the Serpent.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
10-27-1859
Democratic
The excuses of the black republican press are as various and conflicting as they are shallow.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

A Contest of Principle.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-10-1854
Democratic
The only serious danger to the permanency of our institutions is the proclivity of the central power to interfere in the rights of the States.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

A Crisis.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
1-27-1854
Democratic
But whether slavery would or would not go to Nebraska, is not the question. That must be left to the people, whom we must learn to trust.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

A Little Strange.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-10-1854
Democratic
Let not abolitionists talk to us of the sacredness of compromises! Nothing is sacred with them.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Abolitionism.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
3-30-1854
Democratic
If the Journal editor would not be classed as an abolitionist, he should not fulminate abolition doctrines.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Another Greely Forgery.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
3-13-1854
Democratic
Since the introduction of a Nebraska bill Greely has been busily engaged in fabricating public opinion against it.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Excitement in Congress.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-4-1854
Democratic
The principle of Congressional non intervention in the domestic affairs of the States and Territories is strongly intrenched in the popular heart.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Explicit.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-11-1854
Democratic
Shall, or shall not, the people of the Territories be permitted to manage their own affairs in their own way?

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Glorious News from Washington -- Passage of the Nebraska Bill.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
5-24-1854
Democratic
Those who desire to keep the disturbing and distracting subject of slavery in Congress, as an eternal bone of contention between the North and the South, instead of referring its decision to those to whom it legitimately belongs, will, of course, send up a howl of rage over the result, which, to them, is so calamitous.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Illiberal.

Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia
3-14-1854
Democratic
With such a showing as this, the Whig paper at the South, that raises its voice against Northern Democrats, should call up on the mountains and the rocks to fall on them and hide them forever from the gaze of honest and patriotic men.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Let the People Rule.

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
2-4-1854
Democratic
And it is this same principle, so eloquently advanced by Clay and Webster and the Democratic statesmen who went with them in that movement, that is incorporated in the new bill for Nebraska

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Meeting in New York.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-4-1854
Democratic
we expect to see abolition attempting now to cloak its head under the mantle of good faith, and cry aloud for the maintenance of pledges, while it presses forward its own wicked objects.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Michigan and the Nebraska Question.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-3-1854
Democratic
no effort at agitation, either on the part of abolition, whig or "independent" papers, can move that sentiment from the firm base on which it stands.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Mr. Brooks's Speech

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
3-21-1854
Democratic
it places the claims of the bill to Southern support on the true ground of the equal constitutional rights of all the States in the Territories

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Mr. Douglass' Speech.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-7-1854
Democratic
We furnish our readers to-day with the first half of Senator Douglas' speech on the territorial bill.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Mr. Everett's Position -- Necessity of Mr. Douglas' Bill.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-15-1854
Democratic
Let democratic statesmen, at least, be consistent, and cling to the republican doctrine of non-intervention.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Nebraska - Mr. Douglas's Report.

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
1-16-1854
Democratic
We commend Mr. Douglas' report not only for the ability with which it is prepared, but for the sound, national, Union-loving sentiments, with which it abounds.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Nebraska.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
1-23-1854
Democratic
the North and the South ought to unite in sweeping it into the rubbish of extinct legislative anomalies

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Nebraska.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-4-1854
Democratic
Senator DOUGLAS made a powerful speech in vindication of the Nebraska bill

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

New Territories.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
1-6-1854
Democratic
It is no part of the business of Congress to legislate for the territories.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
1-30-1854
Democratic
The persons who have been busiest in charging the Administration with favoring Free Soilism, are now "standing upon the other tack," and assert that the Administration is doing all it can for the benefit of slavery!

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
2-2-1854
Democratic
As we are a little oblivious respecting the "loud-mouthed attacks of the democratic press," which the Courant alludes to, will the editor be good enough to produce them?

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
2-2-1854
Democratic
The only mode of relief we can think of, will be to elect the editor a delegate to the great "Hen convention

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
2-4-1854
Democratic
The abolitionists, free soilers, and free soil whigs, the Boston Post thinks, had better save their breath to cool their porridge, instead of wasting it in denunciation of the Nebraska bill.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
2-6-1854
Democratic
its sole object is to confirm the principles of the Compromise of 1850, and remove the question of slavery from the National Councils.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
2-14-1854
Democratic
Whiggery lives upon such excitements.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

Mississippian
Jackson, Mississippi
3-31-1854
Democratic
we have no fanatical women roving over the country and bringing reproach upon the community in which they live, by mingling in affairs which pertain to the sterner sex, we have no preachers who convert the sacred desk into an arena of sectional strife, and whose blasphemies make the very angels weep.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

One Hundred Guns for Nebraska!

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
5-24-1854
Democratic
At sunrise this morning, one hundred guns were fired from the Public Square, by order of the Democratic Town Committee, in honor of the passage of the bill

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Out of the Woods at Last.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-29-1854
Democratic
We are glad to get rid of it.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Parties -- will they be Sectional?

Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia
3-28-1854
Democratic
We have too much confidence in the magnanimity, good sense and prudence of many Northern Democratic Statesmen, to despair of National Parties at this time.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Passage of the Nebraska Bill in the House.

Mississippian
Jackson, Mississippi
6-2-1854
Democratic
it achieves the great object of removing from Congressional interference the slavery question

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Passage of the Nebraska Bill.

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
5-26-1854
Democratic
It has not been our opinion that the South would gain any very decisive advantage by the passage of the Nebraska bill in its present shape

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Passage of the Nebraska Bill.

Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat
Little Rock, Arkansas
9-6-1854
Democratic
The final passage of the Nebraska bill, through the Senate, was publicly announced by the roaring cannon.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Renewal of the Slavery Agitation. -- The Nebraska Bill.

Daily Patriot
Concord, New Hamphire
2-1-1854
Democratic
the selfish schemes of trading politicians who seek to get up another abolition mania in the hope of thereby getting into office.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-3-1854
Democratic
distinctly and unequivocally in favor of repealing all the anti-slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Rights of Minorities

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-27-1854
Democratic
As Mr. CALHOUN observed, governments were formed to protect minorities -- majorities can take care of themselves.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Senator Douglas -- the Nebraska Bill.

Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat
Little Rock, Arkansas
2-3-1854
Democratic
It is predicted that this report and bill will re-open the slavery agitation, both North and South.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Senator Douglas' Speech -- The Nebraska Question.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
2-11-1854
Democratic
the able and unanswerable speech of Judge Douglas upon the Nebraska Territorial bill

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Senator Douglas-- Squatter Sovereignty

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-14-1854
Democratic
So far therefore from these governments being empowered to exclude slavery, any action they may take upon the subject, would be a matter for discussion and decision, both by Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Senator Douglas.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-6-1854
Democratic
We are able to do only imperfect justice to the speech of this distinguished Senator in defence of the territorial bill

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Slavery Agitation

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
6-3-1854
Democratic
the passage of the Nebraska Bill is the renewal of agitation of the subject of slavery, under circumstances, too, of unprecedented intensity and bitterness.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Slavery in the New Territories.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
1-15-1854
Democratic
It is simply recognizing, to its proper limit, the great principle of the right of the people, every where, to self-government.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Speech of Judge Douglas on the Nebraska Bill.

Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia
2-14-1854
Democratic
We regret to learn that several whig papers at the South, such as the National Intelligencer, the Louisville Journal, and the New Orleans Bulletin are out in opposition to the Nebraska Bill.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Speech of Mr. Douglas -- Renewal of the Slavery Agitation -- Its object.

Daily Patriot
Concord, New Hamphire
2-1-1854
Democratic
We have seldom read an abler or more conclusive argument in support of any measure

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Squatter Sovereignty.

Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia
4-18-1854
Democratic
We see a disposition in some quarters of the Democratic party to discuss the question of Squatter Sovereignty as applied to the Nebraska Bill.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Cloven Foot!

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
2-1-1854
Democratic
The Compromise of 1850 is well understood to be a "finality" -- superceding all previous action, and designed to stop all agitation of the slavery question, in or out of Congress.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Crisis in Congress -- Duty of the Majority

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
5-15-1854
Democratic
The principle of the power of the majority is essential to the authority of government, and should not be sacrificed to those technical rules which are ordained for the protection of the rights of a minority.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Crisis.

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
2-21-1854
Democratic
it must be apparent to every one who looks upon the Congressional proceedings, that the whig organization, as a National party is ended

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Democracy and the Union

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
1-9-1854
Democratic
That not only the administration, but the Democracy of the whole country will show their determination to stand by these measures, and to practically apply them whenever in the organization of territorial and State governments, or otherwise, the same principles shall arise, we feel the fullest confidence.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Dividing Line.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-18-1854
Democratic
The battle is between popular constitutional rights on the one hand, and the encroachments of the central power on the other.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Duty of the South

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
2-16-1854
Democratic
On our side we have the whole power of the Federal government and the moral support of a sound public sentiment

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Feeling in the South.

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
3-2-1854
Democratic
Northern journals betray a gross misrepresentation of the temper of the public mind of the South

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Importance of the Early Passage of the Nebraska Bill.

Mississippian
Jackson, Mississippi
4-21-1854
Democratic
The condition on which the Democracy of the slave-holding States co-operate with their brethren of the North, is that of non-interference with the rights of slave-holding States, and opposition to Congressional legislation, which discriminates in any form against the property of one section of the Union

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Journal on Alien Suffrage

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
3-13-1854
Democratic
Its daily conglomerate, hashed up from Greely's mint of festering misrepresentation, calumny, and impotent malice, finds no response with the people of Illinois.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Missouri Compromise -- How the Question Stands.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-2-1854
Democratic
We deny to Congress the power to either establish slavery or to prohibit it, in a Territory or a State.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Nebraska Bill Passed.

Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia
5-30-1854
Democratic
the South has learned that she has many friends at the North upon whom she may rely for justice in the hour of need.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Nebraska Bill.

New-Haven Daily Register
New Haven, Connecticut
2-3-1854
Democratic
There never was a more needless excitement than that which the whig press is trying to raise on this subject.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Nebraska Bill.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
5-19-1854
Democratic
The opponents of the Nebraska bill failed in their disorganizing efforts to defeat this measure by legislative trickery

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Nebraska Bill.

Daily Patriot
Concord, New Hamphire
5-31-1854
Democratic
it will tend to remove from the halls of Congress the slavery controversy, and to transfer it to the people

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Nebraska Bill. Abolitionism.

Union
Washington, D. C.
1-15-1854
Democratic
his proposition is regarded by abolitionists as a death-blow totheir hope of making the slavery question available forfuture political excitement.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Nebraska Question

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
1-25-1854
Democratic
The union of the Democracy on this proposition will dissipate forever the charges of free soil sympathies so recklessly and pertinaciously urged against the administration by our Whig opponents

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Non-Intervention Principle.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
1-31-1854
Democratic
Now is the time to give practical effect to the leading principles which triumphed in the election of Pierce.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Object of the Compromise of 1850.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-6-1854
Democratic
take the whole question out of the hands of Congress, and give it into the charge of the people interested in it

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Organization of New Territories.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
1-10-1854
Democratic
all questions pertaining to slavery in the Territories, and in the new States to be formed therefrom, are to be left to the decision of the people residing therein

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Present Crisis.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
2-9-1854
Democratic
When abolitionism shall be finally crushed out of Congress, no other question can soon arise whose tendency will be to disturb the relations of cordiality which naturally subsist between the two great divisions of the country.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The South and the New York Factions.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
1-26-1854
Democratic
It is perhaps, well for the South that parties at the North stand thus committed

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Territorial Question.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
1-12-1854
Democratic
it takes the right ground essentially, and we have no doubt that the nation will sustain it.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Territorial Question.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
1-13-1854
Democratic
The bill for the organization of Nebraska, like the Compromise Measures, is common ground upon which all sections can meet.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

What is Nebraska?

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
2-8-1854
Democratic
But the position of the Abolitionists on this question is not only treacherous, but it makes also the legislation of the country absurdly inconsistent.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

What is the Nebraska Bill?

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
3-23-1854
Democratic
Whether time and consultation, and the various influences that work on the minds of Members of Congress, will increase the number of supporters of the bill, remains to be seen.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

WHIG OPPOSITION TO THE NEBRASKA BILL.

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
2-7-1854
Democratic
we apprehend before the struggle is over, the majority of the active and aspiring Whigs of the South will be found in opposition to the repeal of the Missouri restriction.

Sumner Caning

A Constitutional Caning.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
6-11-1856
Democratic
Brooks declares that, as the constitution provides that no member of either House of Congress shall be held responsible for words spoken in debate, that it would have been to have caned Sumner anywhere else than the place designated by the Constitution.

Sumner Caning

A Lie upon its Face.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
5-29-1856
Democratic
Senator Sumner has floored himself much worse than Brooks did by the following foolish and false attempt to drag Senator Douglas into personal difficulty with Brooks.

Sumner Caning

A New Era.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-29-1856
Democratic
Was the like of this ever before published in a newspaper in South Carolina?

Sumner Caning

A NORTHERN FREE REPUBLIC: STAND BY THE UNION.

Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts
6-3-1856
Democratic
Madness rules the hour, in nullification-ridden Massachusetts.

Sumner Caning

An Atrocious Speech and a Disgraceful Assault.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
5-23-1856
Democratic
It was an atrocious speech. But its atrocity did not warrant the personal assault upon him by a South Carolina member of the House of Representatives.

Sumner Caning

Another Richmond in the Field.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
5-26-1856
Democratic
Senator Sumner is the man for Fusion Candidate for President.

Sumner Caning

Assault in the United States Senate Chamber.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
5-26-1856
Democratic
Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate.

Sumner Caning

Assault in the United States Senate Chamber.

Illinois State Register
Springfield, Illinois
5-26-1856
Democratic
Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate.

Sumner Caning

Assault upon Mr. Sumner.

Daily Patriot
Concord, New Hamphire
5-28-1856
Democratic
Sumner's speech was of such a character as to provoke the result which has followed

Sumner Caning

Brooks and Sumner.

Mobile Daily Register
Mobile, Alabama
6-6-1856
Democratic
Greeley and his crowd are sharply ridiculous in their remarks, and their attempt to make political capital out of it, is so palpable, as to destroy, in a great measure, the effect of the venom they spit forth.

Sumner Caning

BROOKS AND SUMNER.

Carolina Spartan
Spartanburg, South Carolina
5-29-1856
Democratic
Few in South Carolina will withhold applause from Col. Brooks for his castigation of a man who to a foul tongue adds the crime of perjury.

Sumner Caning

CAPT. BROOKS' CASTIGATION OF SENATOR SUMNER.

Edgefield Advertiser
Edgefield, South Carolina
5-28-1856
Democratic
we have borne insult long enough, and now let the conflict come if it must.

Sumner Caning

COL. BROOKS AND SUMNER

Yorkville Enquirer
Yorkville, South Carolina
5-29-1856
Democratic
If ever a high-minded man can be justified in promptly resenting insult and injury, surely Col. Brooks will receive from the people of his own State, at least, the mead of a most cordial approval.

Sumner Caning

Congressman Brooks' Assault on Senator Sumner.

Vermont Patriot & State Gazette
Montpelier, Vermont
5-30-1856
Democratic
The remarks made by Mr. Sumner, which provoked this assault, were malignant and insulting beyond anything ever uttered in coolness upon the floor of the Senate.

Sumner Caning

Exciting Debate in the Senate -- Senator Sumner Whipped!

Weekly North Carolina Standard
Raleigh, North Carolina
5-28-1856
Democratic
It was a speech full of abuse of his brother Senators -- full of the vilest and most dangerous appeals against the domestic institutions of the South, and calculated only to increase the strife between the two sections and lead to disunion and civil war.

Sumner Caning

Freedom in Debate.

Locomotive
Indianapolis, Indiana
5-23-1856
Democratic
Freedom of speech should be guarantied to all public men in debate on public questions

Sumner Caning

LIBERTY OF SPEECH, OF THE PRESS, AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION.

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
6-3-1856
Democratic
A community of Abolitionists could only be governed by a penitentiary system. They are as unfit for liberty as maniacs, criminals, or wild beasts.

Sumner Caning

Mr. Brooks's Letter to the Senate

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
6-6-1856
Democratic
We copy below the letter of Mr. BROOKS, addressed to the President of the Senate

Sumner Caning

No Title.

Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts
5-24-1856
Democratic
The free soil politicians are prompt in their endeavors to make party capital out of this affair.

Sumner Caning

No Title.

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-28-1856
Democratic
SUMNER was well and elegantly whipped, and he richly deserved it.

Sumner Caning

Public Approval of Mr. Brooks.

South Carolinian
Columbia, South Carolina
5-27-1856
Democratic
Meetings of approval and sanction will be held, not only in Mr. Brooks' district, but throughout the State at large, and a general and hearty response of approval will re-echo the words, "Welldone," from Washington to the Rio Grande.

Sumner Caning

Quid Pro Quo.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
5-23-1856
Democratic
Superficial and malevolent writers are attemptingto magnify Sumner into a martyr forfreedom and a victim of slavery.

Sumner Caning

Quid Pro Quo.

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer
Cincinnati, Ohio
5-27-1856
Democratic
gentlemen everywhere will admit that Sumner's general tone was neither parliamentary nor gentlemanly

Sumner Caning

RESIGNATION OF BROOKS AND KEITT.

Carolina Spartan
Spartanburg, South Carolina
7-24-1856
Democratic
These gallant gentlemen have done nothing justifying the action of the House, and their constituents will send them back strengthened to battle with the hosts of Black Republicanism

Sumner Caning

SUMNER CANED BY COL. BROOKS

Patriot and Mountaineer
Greenville, South Carolina
5-29-1856
Democratic
he was abusive of Judge BUTLER and Judge DOUGLAS, and denounced all slaveholders as criminals!

Sumner Caning

Sumner in his Seat.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
6-10-1856
Democratic
We see that Senator Sumner is not only in his seat but is engaged in debate with Senator Douglas and others.

Sumner Caning

Sumner's Plagiarism.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
6-17-1856
Democratic
We are unprepared to say that a man should be cudgeled over the head for the gross crime of plagiarism, but we believe it is a pretty good rule in the old-fashioned schools to give a youth a good licking for that offence.

Sumner Caning

Supremacy of the Law

Boston Post
Boston, Massachusetts
5-29-1856
Democratic
personal violence is of akin to that higher-lawism Which has been so long urged by fanaticism.

Sumner Caning

The Assault on Hon. W. T. Butler.

State Gazette
Austin, Texas
6-14-1856
Democratic
The most serious offence committed in the American Senate, and one which must be promptly rebuked, is the slanderous and dastardly attack upon the South and one of her proudest patriots, by Sumner, the abolitionist leader in the Senate.

Sumner Caning

The Brooks and Sumner difficulty.

Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia
6-3-1856
Democratic
We believe there are some kinds of slander and abuse, for the perpetration of which, no office or station should protect a man from deserved punishment.

Sumner Caning

THE BROOKS MEETING.

Laurensville Herald
Laurensville, South Carolina
6-6-1859
Democratic
The first has been struck, which will be felt keener and longer than all the arguments and warnings ever used in Congress by Southern members

Sumner Caning

THE FRACAS IN THE SENATE.

Carolina Spartan
Spartanburg, South Carolina
6-5-1856
Democratic
Intense excitement continues at the North, and the negro worshippers are forging capital from the original occurrence.

Sumner Caning

The Privileges of the Senate

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
6-9-1856
Democratic
Precedent is the mask which tyranny wears when it strikes its deadliest blows.

Sumner Caning

The Right View of the Subject

Charleston Mercury
Charleston, South Carolina
5-30-1856
Democratic
The South certainly has become generally convinced that it is by hard blows, and not by loud blustering and insulting denunciation, that the sectional quarrel is to be settled.

Sumner Caning

THE WASHINGTON DIFFICULTY.

Laurensville Herald
Laurensville, South Carolina
5-30-1859
Democratic
we can only give our most hearty indorsement of the conduct of Mr. Brooks

Sumner Caning

True.

Vermont Patriot & State Gazette
Montpelier, Vermont
6-13-1856
Democratic
no portion of our people seem to be so much pleased with the Sumner row and the Kansas troubles as our fusion abolitionists

Sumner Caning

Why don't they denounce?

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
5-28-1856
Democratic
Why don't the Democrats denounce the ruffian Brooks?

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