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	Dred Scott Court and Constitution Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-10-1857 Republican Judge Taney requests the American people to believe that the framers of the Constitution did not know their own minds.
	Dred Scott Decision in the Dred Scott Case. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 3-14-1857 Republican the power of Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territory was not, as the majority of the Court expressed, limited to territory belonging to the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution
	Dred Scott Half a Million Citizens Disfranchised. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-10-1857 Republican The half million of men and women paralysed by the atheistic logic of the decision of the case of Dred Scott
	Dred Scott Mr. Giddings' Letter to Mr. Benton. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 3-25-1857 Republican Thom H. Benton, in his copy-righted, Union-saving lecture, states "that the Constitution of the United States sets out with the declaration that 'slaves are property,'" to which Mr. Giddings replies in a long letter.
	Dred Scott No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 3-11-1857 Republican auctions of black men may be held in front of Faneuil Hall
	Dred Scott No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 3-12-1857 Republican our liberties may be subverted, our rights trampled upon; the spirit of our institutions utterly disregarded
	Dred Scott No Title. Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 3-7-1857 Republican We cannot speak for the Republican party; but we feel free to say that it will spurn this decision
	Dred Scott No Title. Republican Journal Columbus, Wisconsin 3-31-1857 Republican It strikes at the very vitals ofour free institutions
	Dred Scott No Title. Illinios State Journal Springfield, lllinois 3-17-1857 Republican several of the Supreme Court Judges are getting their opinions printed privately, and have revised them to conform to the points of Judges Curtis and McLean
	Dred Scott No Title. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 3-17-1857 Republican Yes, he has done all this, and delivered one of the most atrocious law opinions that has ever disgraced the history of the courts of civilized nations.
	Dred Scott No Title. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 3-18-1857 Republican There is a party at Washington, evidently, which derives great comfort from this notable judgment; it is talked of as the new corner stone of slave expansion, something almost equal to a palladium of liberty.
	Dred Scott Ohio Taking Her Position. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 4-3-1857 Republican We call the especial attention of our readers to the Report and Resolutions of the Committee of the Legislature in regard to the judicial outrage known as the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court upon the Dred Scott case.
	Dred Scott Opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-7-1857 Republican It is no novelty to find the Supreme Court following the lead of the Slavery Extension party, to which most of its members belong
	Dred Scott Shall Slavery Take Possession of the Nation, or shall Freedom Rule? Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 3-11-1857 Republican Many good-natured, Union-loving men hoped that the administration of Buchanan would be an improvement upon that of Franklin Pierce.
	Dred Scott Southern Confidence. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 3-17-1857 Republican The last thing we should anticipate from our Southern brethren would be a self-reproach that they had not been true to themselves
	Dred Scott The Conspiracy against Freedom. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-11-1857 Republican the People will from the hour of this Dred decision, unintermittingly roll back this mixed Conspiracy
	Dred Scott The Decision in the Case of Dred Scott. Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 3-7-1857 Republican We may henceforth throw to the winds the reasoning of Story and the decisions of Marshall
	Dred Scott The Issue Forced Upon Us. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-9-1857 Republican a new shackle for the North will be handed to the servile Supreme Court, to rivet upon us.
	Dred Scott The Opinion of Chief Justice Taney Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-10-1857 Republican a blot upon our National character abroad, and a long-remembered shame at home.
	Dred Scott The Supreme Court on the Slavery Question. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 3-16-1857 Republican We give this morning an abstract of the opinions of Justice McLean and Curtis, dissenting from said decision, wherein they maintain that the Missouri Compromise is constitutional
	Dred Scott The Supreme Court. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-19-1857 Republican Five of its nine silk gowns are worn by Slaveholders.
	Dred Scott The U. S. Supreme Court and its Decisions. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 3-14-1857 Republican The United States Supreme Court consists of nine judges.
	Dred Scott Who is My Neighbor? Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 3-31-1857 Republican The official organ of Mr. Buchanan at Washington, The Union, is trying its hand at expositions of Scripture.
	John Brown Brown and the Virginians. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 11-19-1859 Republican Brown, however, escapes being ridiculous by faith, fortitude, devotedness, and unshaken confidence in his cause and himself with which, wounded, a prisoner, his followers slain or captured, and himself condemned to death, he still adheres to his project as a feasible and rational no less than a philanthropic undertaking.
	John Brown From the Philadelphia Press. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 11-30-1859 Republican Our own belief is that he should not be executed
	John Brown Inciting To Insurrection. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-29-1859 Republican The Virginian Chivalry seem to be bent on proving that their Ancient Dominion was, and is, in danger of being taken away from them by foreign invasion and domestic insurrection.
	John Brown John Brown's Insanity. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 11-25-1859 Republican It is abundantly shown by these affidavits that on the mother's side Brown belonged to a family in which insanity was hereditary.
	John Brown Kansas Fruits. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-28-1859 Republican Those who are now straining every nerve to make party capital out of Old Brown, are careful not to look back so far as to see how and why he became a monomaniac.
	John Brown No Title Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 12-2-1859 Republican the mad men of the South who, to bolster up Slavery, are ready to abrogate the most sacred rights guaranteed to a free people.
	John Brown No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-18-1859 Republican A most extraordinary telegraphic bulletin startled the whole country yesterday -- one importing that an Insurrection had just broken out at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and that it was the work of negroes and Abolitionists!
	John Brown No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-19-1859 Republican The Insurrection, so called, at Harper's Ferry, proves a verity.
	John Brown No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-26-1859 Republican Rather than be complimented in this back-handed style, we imagine that the military would have preferred not to have been mentioned at all.
	John Brown No Title. Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 12-3-1859 Republican millions of curses were uttered against the hellish system which so mercilessly and ferociously cried out for his blood.
	John Brown The Fatal Friday. Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 12-2-1859 Republican The man's heroism which is as sublime as that of a martyr
	John Brown THE HARPER'S FERRY AFFAIR. Boston Evening Transcript Boston, Massachusetts 10-24-1859 Republican the panic Mr. Brown with his handful of deluded followers created in Maryland and Virginia was not at all creditable to the people or authorities of the vicinity.
	John Brown The Harper's Ferry Trials. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-25-1859 Republican we do not see how they could be demanded for trial in Virginia.
	John Brown The Martyr's Death and the Martyr's Triumph New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 12-9-1859 Republican no pull quote designated
	John Brown The Patriarchal Tenure. Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 10-26-1859 Republican The Slaveholders have evenless confidence in the "patriarchal tenure"than the "Abolitionists."
	John Brown The Reign of Terror.-- Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 11-30-1859 Republican Free speech is now denied at the South.
	John Brown The True Policy. Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 10-22-1859 Republican In all this they are assisted by the bogus Democratic party.
	John Brown The Virginia Insurrection. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-27-1859 Republican The slave-statutes of Virginia are but legislated, enacted, concrete fright.
	John Brown Where the Responsibility Belongs. Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 10-20-1859 Republican The Democratic party, however proposes toincrease the chances for insurrection, bloodshed and all the horrors of servile war, by extending the area of slavery indefinitely and by re-opening the African slave trade.
	John Brown Who Taught John Brown? New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 11-12-1859 Republican the champion of the slaveholding class will put to death the champion of the slave.
	Sumner Caning All the Courtesy.-- Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-30-1856 Republican The South boasts all the Chivalry:
	Sumner Caning As We Knew He Must. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-28-1856 Republican The Statesman has at last spoken.
	Sumner Caning Club Law in the Senate! Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-23-1856 Republican Read the telegraphic despatches from Washington.
	Sumner Caning Congressional Bullyism. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-2-1856 Republican All, without regard to political affinities execrate and denounce the assault upon Senator Sumner by Mr. Brooks of South Carolina, as cowardly and unwarrantable.
	Sumner Caning CONGRESSIONAL RUFFIANISM. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-24-1856 Republican Mr. Sumner was writing unsuspectingly and busily at his desk when attacked by Brooks.
	Sumner Caning Congressional. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-16-1856 Republican Senator Butler concluded his remarks, in reply to Mr. Sumner'sspeech, by claiming he had convicted Sumner of error, misrepresentation and calumny.
	Sumner Caning From the St. Louis Evening News: A Difference of Opinions Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-7-1856 Republican On the whole the Mercury concludes that the negro demonstration is a "spectacle as disgusting as it is novel -- offensive to every sentiment of South Carolina society, and calculated to bring ridicule and disgrace upon the whole movement." We think so, too.
	Sumner Caning Is the Kick Waited for? Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 6-6-1856 Republican The manner in which the deed has been defended in Congress and its perpetrator so shamefully applauded by the Southern press, has strengthened and prolonged the indignant response of our people.
	Sumner Caning Justifying Club Law Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 6-11-1856 Republican the club is to be the substitute for debate
	Sumner Caning Meeting at Brooklyn.-- Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-4-1856 Republican The indignation meeting held at Brooklyn was an ovation: The Mayor presided.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinios 6-21-1856 Republican [pointing finger] P.S.Brooks is talked of as the next Democratic candidate for Governor of South Carolina. And on the same principle, we presume, that Herbert will be the next Democratic candidate for Governor of California.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 5-23-1856 Republican the mouths of the representatives of the North are to be closed by the use of bowie-knives, bludgeons, and revolvers.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 5-24-1856 Republican The Boston Courier did not see fit to join yesterday morning in the unqualified rebuke which the assault upon Mr. Sumner elicited from almost every Boston newspaper.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 6-3-1856 Republican the Democratic party has kindled its flames; that if fanaticism has taken a new lease of life, that life was breathed into it by Pierce and Douglas and their fellow conspirators
	Sumner Caning No Title. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 6-4-1856 Republican The fault was not with our citizens, but with those who directly and indirectly lent their countenance to the ruffianly conduct of Brooks.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-31-1856 Republican As there have been political crimes in all ages, so there have been in all ages Doughfaces to defend them.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 6-5-1856 Republican they take upon themselves the unnecessary odium of being the opponents of Freedom of Debate.
	Sumner Caning No Title. New York Times New York, New York 5-23-1856 Republican The most fastidious reader will search in vain for anything which could give the slightest color of just provocation for the brutal outrage of Brooks.
	Sumner Caning No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 5-23-1856 Republican No meaner exhibition of Southern cowardice -- generally miscalled Southern chivalry -- was ever witnessed.
	Sumner Caning No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 5-24-1856 Republican a more vivid, if not a wholly original perception, of the degradation in which the Free States have consented for years to exist.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-23-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] The telegraphic despatches to-day will be read with interest.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-24-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] The reader will not fail to look at the Telegraphic head for the latest news from Washington.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-26-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] Our exchanges are teeming with accounts of the state of affairs at Washington and in Kansas, and commentaries thereon.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-27-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] The Louisville Journal speaks of the disgraceful outrage in the Senate chamber in a spirit of just condemnation, although it thinks Mr. Sumner ought to be punished "for his incendiary harangues."
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-2-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] If one thing more than another demonstrates the character of the man and the nature of the attack on Senator Sumner by Brooks, it is this -- that he could steal up unsuspectingly and attack his victim, whom he knew to be unarmed, for words spoken in debate, no way applying to him; but resorted to a challenge with Wilson, whom he knew would not accept, for words the most opprobrious directly applied to himself -- and why?
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-2-1856 Republican The committee on Federal Relations in the Connecticut Legislature, recently reported the following resolutions for the consideration of the two Houses of the General Assembly, viz.:
	Sumner Caning No Title. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-13-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] Senator Butler has been giving the Senate a specimen of his drivel, in reply to Mr. Sumner's speech.
	Sumner Caning No Title. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinios 6-3-1856 Republican Brooks declares upon his honor as a gentleman that he had no coajutor in his achievement in the Senate the other day.
	Sumner Caning Political "Non Sequiturs." Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-13-1856 Republican Mr. Sumner has the mark of Cain on his brow but it don't follow that he was Abel to defend himself.
	Sumner Caning Remove the Capitol Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-27-1856 Republican The seat of the National government should be where freedom of speech can safely be tolerated
	Sumner Caning Ruffianism at Washington. Buffalo Morning Express and Daily Democracy Buffalo, New York 5-24-1856 Republican The truth is, that slavery, with its southern chivalry and northern doughfaceism, found more than a match in the oratorical powers of Sumner. They had not the ability to cope with him in debate.
	Sumner Caning Ruffianism in Congress. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 5-23-1856 Republican Can the north no longer raise her voice in the halls of Legislation, without being outraged and insulted?
	Sumner Caning Senator Wilson and Brooks. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-4-1856 Republican Every one here thought when the stand takenby Senator Wilson was made known that a rencontrewould be the immediate consequence
	Sumner Caning Sermons in Brooks. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 6-3-1856 Republican Slavery shows its paternity of the deed by its thorough ratification.
	Sumner Caning South Carolina. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-5-1856 Republican The only men in South Carolina who gave their efforts to the country in the Revolutionary war, were poor men, and poor men in South Carolina at this time are denied the right of sufferage, and are incapable of holding office.
	Sumner Caning THE ASSAULT ON MR. SUMNER. Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 5-24-1856 Republican never before has the sanctity of the Senate Chamber been violated
	Sumner Caning The Assault on Senator Sumner a Pre - Meditated Affair. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 5-27-1856 Republican It seems that the assault upon Senator Sumner, among the Nebraska men, was a pre-meditated affair, and Senator Douglas was doubtless its principal instigator.
	Sumner Caning The Attack on Mr. Sumner.-- Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-24-1856 Republican If Southern men will resort to the fist to overawe and intimidate Northern men, blow must be given back for blow. Forbearance and kindly deportment are lost upon these Southern ruffians.
	Sumner Caning The Attack on Senator Sumner. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 5-24-1856 Republican We hope, for the credit of humanity, that every man in the Free States, without regard to party, will feel this outrage as a personal indignity, no less than an insult to the Free States.
	Sumner Caning The Meeting in New York.-- Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-2-1856 Republican The meeting on Friday evening, at the Tabernacle, to give expression to the feelings of the commercial capital of the Nation on the outrage at Washington, is among the occurrences of the day to be noted.
	Sumner Caning The Meeting To-Morrow Evening. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 6-5-1856 Republican The assault upon Senator Sumner was a National outrage.
	Sumner Caning The News. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 5-23-1856 Republican How long will the people of the Free States tamely submit to such outrages?
	Sumner Caning The Post and Mr. Sumner Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-26-1856 Republican when even Southern papers denounce the attack as atrocious, the Pittsburgh Post, alone among all the papers of the free States, hastes to the defence of Mr. Brooks and justifies his brutal and unmanly assault upon Mr. Sumner.
	Sumner Caning The Provocation to the Assault. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 5-29-1856 Republican If you would see the sure and unmistakable evidences of MEAN souls, look at the semi-apologies made in some of the Northern administration papers
	Sumner Caning The Ruffians in the Senate. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-23-1856 Republican For the first time has the extreme discipline of the Plantation been introduced into the Senate of the United States.
	Sumner Caning The U. S. Senate. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-6-1856 Republican Our leading papers, and letter-writers from Washington, are expressing great surprise and indignation at the action of the Senate on the breach of privilege committed on that body by the ruffianly assault on Sumner.
	Sumner Caning Wade in the Senate.-- Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-31-1856 Republican The passage on the floor of the Senate, in which Mr. Butler bore himself so courteously toward Mr. Wilson, and in which Mr. Toombs approved of mob law in regulating debate, has been sketched in our telegraphic dispatches.
	Sumner Caning Was it a Libel? Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-24-1856 Republican The record of the Revolutionary Struggle shows that South Carolina's Slavery, weakened South Carolina
	Sumner Caning We Mean to Subdue You. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 5-26-1856 Republican This outrage is of a piece with those in Kansas, with the additional merit of being bolder and having a more distinguished person for its victim.

Dred Scott

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
3-10-1857
Republican
Judge Taney requests the American people to believe that the framers of the Constitution did not know their own minds.

Dred Scott

Decision in the Dred Scott Case.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
3-14-1857
Republican
the power of Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territory was not, as the majority of the Court expressed, limited to territory belonging to the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution

Dred Scott

Half a Million Citizens Disfranchised.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
3-10-1857
Republican
The half million of men and women paralysed by the atheistic logic of the decision of the case of Dred Scott

Dred Scott

Mr. Giddings' Letter to Mr. Benton.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
3-25-1857
Republican
Thom H. Benton, in his copy-righted, Union-saving lecture, states "that the Constitution of the United States sets out with the declaration that 'slaves are property,'" to which Mr. Giddings replies in a long letter.

Dred Scott

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
3-11-1857
Republican
auctions of black men may be held in front of Faneuil Hall

Dred Scott

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
3-12-1857
Republican
our liberties may be subverted, our rights trampled upon; the spirit of our institutions utterly disregarded

Dred Scott

No Title.

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3-7-1857
Republican
We cannot speak for the Republican party; but we feel free to say that it will spurn this decision

Dred Scott

No Title.

Republican Journal
Columbus, Wisconsin
3-31-1857
Republican
It strikes at the very vitals ofour free institutions

Dred Scott

No Title.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, lllinois
3-17-1857
Republican
several of the Supreme Court Judges are getting their opinions printed privately, and have revised them to conform to the points of Judges Curtis and McLean

Dred Scott

No Title.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
3-17-1857
Republican
Yes, he has done all this, and delivered one of the most atrocious law opinions that has ever disgraced the history of the courts of civilized nations.

Dred Scott

No Title.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
3-18-1857
Republican
There is a party at Washington, evidently, which derives great comfort from this notable judgment; it is talked of as the new corner stone of slave expansion, something almost equal to a palladium of liberty.

Dred Scott

Ohio Taking Her Position.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
4-3-1857
Republican
We call the especial attention of our readers to the Report and Resolutions of the Committee of the Legislature in regard to the judicial outrage known as the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court upon the Dred Scott case.

Dred Scott

Opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
3-7-1857
Republican
It is no novelty to find the Supreme Court following the lead of the Slavery Extension party, to which most of its members belong

Dred Scott

Shall Slavery Take Possession of the Nation, or shall Freedom Rule?

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
3-11-1857
Republican
Many good-natured, Union-loving men hoped that the administration of Buchanan would be an improvement upon that of Franklin Pierce.

Dred Scott

Southern Confidence.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
3-17-1857
Republican
The last thing we should anticipate from our Southern brethren would be a self-reproach that they had not been true to themselves

Dred Scott

The Conspiracy against Freedom.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
3-11-1857
Republican
the People will from the hour of this Dred decision, unintermittingly roll back this mixed Conspiracy

Dred Scott

The Decision in the Case of Dred Scott.

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3-7-1857
Republican
We may henceforth throw to the winds the reasoning of Story and the decisions of Marshall

Dred Scott

The Issue Forced Upon Us.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
3-9-1857
Republican
a new shackle for the North will be handed to the servile Supreme Court, to rivet upon us.

Dred Scott

The Opinion of Chief Justice Taney

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
3-10-1857
Republican
a blot upon our National character abroad, and a long-remembered shame at home.

Dred Scott

The Supreme Court on the Slavery Question.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
3-16-1857
Republican
We give this morning an abstract of the opinions of Justice McLean and Curtis, dissenting from said decision, wherein they maintain that the Missouri Compromise is constitutional

Dred Scott

The Supreme Court.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
3-19-1857
Republican
Five of its nine silk gowns are worn by Slaveholders.

Dred Scott

The U. S. Supreme Court and its Decisions.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
3-14-1857
Republican
The United States Supreme Court consists of nine judges.

Dred Scott

Who is My Neighbor?

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
3-31-1857
Republican
The official organ of Mr. Buchanan at Washington, The Union, is trying its hand at expositions of Scripture.

John Brown

Brown and the Virginians.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
11-19-1859
Republican
Brown, however, escapes being ridiculous by faith, fortitude, devotedness, and unshaken confidence in his cause and himself with which, wounded, a prisoner, his followers slain or captured, and himself condemned to death, he still adheres to his project as a feasible and rational no less than a philanthropic undertaking.

John Brown

From the Philadelphia Press.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
11-30-1859
Republican
Our own belief is that he should not be executed

John Brown

Inciting To Insurrection.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-29-1859
Republican
The Virginian Chivalry seem to be bent on proving that their Ancient Dominion was, and is, in danger of being taken away from them by foreign invasion and domestic insurrection.

John Brown

John Brown's Insanity.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
11-25-1859
Republican
It is abundantly shown by these affidavits that on the mother's side Brown belonged to a family in which insanity was hereditary.

John Brown

Kansas Fruits.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-28-1859
Republican
Those who are now straining every nerve to make party capital out of Old Brown, are careful not to look back so far as to see how and why he became a monomaniac.

John Brown

No Title

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
12-2-1859
Republican
the mad men of the South who, to bolster up Slavery, are ready to abrogate the most sacred rights guaranteed to a free people.

John Brown

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-18-1859
Republican
A most extraordinary telegraphic bulletin startled the whole country yesterday -- one importing that an Insurrection had just broken out at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and that it was the work of negroes and Abolitionists!

John Brown

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-19-1859
Republican
The Insurrection, so called, at Harper's Ferry, proves a verity.

John Brown

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-26-1859
Republican
Rather than be complimented in this back-handed style, we imagine that the military would have preferred not to have been mentioned at all.

John Brown

No Title.

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
12-3-1859
Republican
millions of curses were uttered against the hellish system which so mercilessly and ferociously cried out for his blood.

John Brown

The Fatal Friday.

Chicago Press and Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
12-2-1859
Republican
The man's heroism which is as sublime as that of a martyr

John Brown

THE HARPER'S FERRY AFFAIR.

Boston Evening Transcript
Boston, Massachusetts
10-24-1859
Republican
the panic Mr. Brown with his handful of deluded followers created in Maryland and Virginia was not at all creditable to the people or authorities of the vicinity.

John Brown

The Harper's Ferry Trials.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-25-1859
Republican
we do not see how they could be demanded for trial in Virginia.

John Brown

The Martyr's Death and the Martyr's Triumph

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
12-9-1859
Republican
no pull quote designated

John Brown

The Patriarchal Tenure.

Chicago Press and Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
10-26-1859
Republican
The Slaveholders have evenless confidence in the "patriarchal tenure"than the "Abolitionists."

John Brown

The Reign of Terror.--

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
11-30-1859
Republican
Free speech is now denied at the South.

John Brown

The True Policy.

Chicago Press and Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
10-22-1859
Republican
In all this they are assisted by the bogus Democratic party.

John Brown

The Virginia Insurrection.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
10-27-1859
Republican
The slave-statutes of Virginia are but legislated, enacted, concrete fright.

John Brown

Where the Responsibility Belongs.

Chicago Press and Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
10-20-1859
Republican
The Democratic party, however proposes toincrease the chances for insurrection, bloodshed and all the horrors of servile war, by extending the area of slavery indefinitely and by re-opening the African slave trade.

John Brown

Who Taught John Brown?

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
11-12-1859
Republican
the champion of the slaveholding class will put to death the champion of the slave.

Sumner Caning

All the Courtesy.--

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-30-1856
Republican
The South boasts all the Chivalry:

Sumner Caning

As We Knew He Must.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-28-1856
Republican
The Statesman has at last spoken.

Sumner Caning

Club Law in the Senate!

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-23-1856
Republican
Read the telegraphic despatches from Washington.

Sumner Caning

Congressional Bullyism.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-2-1856
Republican
All, without regard to political affinities execrate and denounce the assault upon Senator Sumner by Mr. Brooks of South Carolina, as cowardly and unwarrantable.

Sumner Caning

CONGRESSIONAL RUFFIANISM.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
5-24-1856
Republican
Mr. Sumner was writing unsuspectingly and busily at his desk when attacked by Brooks.

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Congressional.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-16-1856
Republican
Senator Butler concluded his remarks, in reply to Mr. Sumner'sspeech, by claiming he had convicted Sumner of error, misrepresentation and calumny.

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From the St. Louis Evening News: A Difference of Opinions

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-7-1856
Republican
On the whole the Mercury concludes that the negro demonstration is a "spectacle as disgusting as it is novel -- offensive to every sentiment of South Carolina society, and calculated to bring ridicule and disgrace upon the whole movement." We think so, too.

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Is the Kick Waited for?

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
6-6-1856
Republican
The manner in which the deed has been defended in Congress and its perpetrator so shamefully applauded by the Southern press, has strengthened and prolonged the indignant response of our people.

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Justifying Club Law

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
6-11-1856
Republican
the club is to be the substitute for debate

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Meeting at Brooklyn.--

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-4-1856
Republican
The indignation meeting held at Brooklyn was an ovation: The Mayor presided.

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No Title.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinios
6-21-1856
Republican
[pointing finger] P.S.Brooks is talked of as the next Democratic candidate for Governor of South Carolina. And on the same principle, we presume, that Herbert will be the next Democratic candidate for Governor of California.

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No Title.

Boston Atlas
Boston, Massachusetts
5-23-1856
Republican
the mouths of the representatives of the North are to be closed by the use of bowie-knives, bludgeons, and revolvers.

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No Title.

Boston Atlas
Boston, Massachusetts
5-24-1856
Republican
The Boston Courier did not see fit to join yesterday morning in the unqualified rebuke which the assault upon Mr. Sumner elicited from almost every Boston newspaper.

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No Title.

Boston Atlas
Boston, Massachusetts
6-3-1856
Republican
the Democratic party has kindled its flames; that if fanaticism has taken a new lease of life, that life was breathed into it by Pierce and Douglas and their fellow conspirators

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No Title.

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
6-4-1856
Republican
The fault was not with our citizens, but with those who directly and indirectly lent their countenance to the ruffianly conduct of Brooks.

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No Title.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
5-31-1856
Republican
As there have been political crimes in all ages, so there have been in all ages Doughfaces to defend them.

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No Title.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
6-5-1856
Republican
they take upon themselves the unnecessary odium of being the opponents of Freedom of Debate.

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No Title.

New York Times
New York, New York
5-23-1856
Republican
The most fastidious reader will search in vain for anything which could give the slightest color of just provocation for the brutal outrage of Brooks.

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No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
5-23-1856
Republican
No meaner exhibition of Southern cowardice -- generally miscalled Southern chivalry -- was ever witnessed.

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No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
5-24-1856
Republican
a more vivid, if not a wholly original perception, of the degradation in which the Free States have consented for years to exist.

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-23-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] The telegraphic despatches to-day will be read with interest.

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-24-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] The reader will not fail to look at the Telegraphic head for the latest news from Washington.

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-26-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] Our exchanges are teeming with accounts of the state of affairs at Washington and in Kansas, and commentaries thereon.

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-27-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] The Louisville Journal speaks of the disgraceful outrage in the Senate chamber in a spirit of just condemnation, although it thinks Mr. Sumner ought to be punished "for his incendiary harangues."

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-2-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] If one thing more than another demonstrates the character of the man and the nature of the attack on Senator Sumner by Brooks, it is this -- that he could steal up unsuspectingly and attack his victim, whom he knew to be unarmed, for words spoken in debate, no way applying to him; but resorted to a challenge with Wilson, whom he knew would not accept, for words the most opprobrious directly applied to himself -- and why?

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-2-1856
Republican
The committee on Federal Relations in the Connecticut Legislature, recently reported the following resolutions for the consideration of the two Houses of the General Assembly, viz.:

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No Title.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-13-1856
Republican
[Pointing Finger] Senator Butler has been giving the Senate a specimen of his drivel, in reply to Mr. Sumner's speech.

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No Title.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinios
6-3-1856
Republican
Brooks declares upon his honor as a gentleman that he had no coajutor in his achievement in the Senate the other day.

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Political "Non Sequiturs."

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-13-1856
Republican
Mr. Sumner has the mark of Cain on his brow but it don't follow that he was Abel to defend himself.

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Remove the Capitol

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5-27-1856
Republican
The seat of the National government should be where freedom of speech can safely be tolerated

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Ruffianism at Washington.

Buffalo Morning Express and Daily Democracy
Buffalo, New York
5-24-1856
Republican
The truth is, that slavery, with its southern chivalry and northern doughfaceism, found more than a match in the oratorical powers of Sumner. They had not the ability to cope with him in debate.

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Ruffianism in Congress.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
5-23-1856
Republican
Can the north no longer raise her voice in the halls of Legislation, without being outraged and insulted?

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Senator Wilson and Brooks.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-4-1856
Republican
Every one here thought when the stand takenby Senator Wilson was made known that a rencontrewould be the immediate consequence

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Sermons in Brooks.

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
6-3-1856
Republican
Slavery shows its paternity of the deed by its thorough ratification.

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South Carolina.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
6-5-1856
Republican
The only men in South Carolina who gave their efforts to the country in the Revolutionary war, were poor men, and poor men in South Carolina at this time are denied the right of sufferage, and are incapable of holding office.

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THE ASSAULT ON MR. SUMNER.

Boston Atlas
Boston, Massachusetts
5-24-1856
Republican
never before has the sanctity of the Senate Chamber been violated

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The Assault on Senator Sumner a Pre - Meditated Affair.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
5-27-1856
Republican
It seems that the assault upon Senator Sumner, among the Nebraska men, was a pre-meditated affair, and Senator Douglas was doubtless its principal instigator.

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The Attack on Mr. Sumner.--

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5-24-1856
Republican
If Southern men will resort to the fist to overawe and intimidate Northern men, blow must be given back for blow. Forbearance and kindly deportment are lost upon these Southern ruffians.

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The Attack on Senator Sumner.

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
5-24-1856
Republican
We hope, for the credit of humanity, that every man in the Free States, without regard to party, will feel this outrage as a personal indignity, no less than an insult to the Free States.

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The Meeting in New York.--

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-2-1856
Republican
The meeting on Friday evening, at the Tabernacle, to give expression to the feelings of the commercial capital of the Nation on the outrage at Washington, is among the occurrences of the day to be noted.

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The Meeting To-Morrow Evening.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
6-5-1856
Republican
The assault upon Senator Sumner was a National outrage.

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The News.

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
5-23-1856
Republican
How long will the people of the Free States tamely submit to such outrages?

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The Post and Mr. Sumner

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5-26-1856
Republican
when even Southern papers denounce the attack as atrocious, the Pittsburgh Post, alone among all the papers of the free States, hastes to the defence of Mr. Brooks and justifies his brutal and unmanly assault upon Mr. Sumner.

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The Provocation to the Assault.

Portland Advertiser
Portland, Maine
5-29-1856
Republican
If you would see the sure and unmistakable evidences of MEAN souls, look at the semi-apologies made in some of the Northern administration papers

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The Ruffians in the Senate.

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
5-23-1856
Republican
For the first time has the extreme discipline of the Plantation been introduced into the Senate of the United States.

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The U. S. Senate.

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
6-6-1856
Republican
Our leading papers, and letter-writers from Washington, are expressing great surprise and indignation at the action of the Senate on the breach of privilege committed on that body by the ruffianly assault on Sumner.

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Wade in the Senate.--

Ohio State Journal
Columbus, Ohio
5-31-1856
Republican
The passage on the floor of the Senate, in which Mr. Butler bore himself so courteously toward Mr. Wilson, and in which Mr. Toombs approved of mob law in regulating debate, has been sketched in our telegraphic dispatches.

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Was it a Libel?

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
5-24-1856
Republican
The record of the Revolutionary Struggle shows that South Carolina's Slavery, weakened South Carolina

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We Mean to Subdue You.

Illinios State Journal
Springfield, Illinois
5-26-1856
Republican
This outrage is of a piece with those in Kansas, with the additional merit of being bolder and having a more distinguished person for its victim.

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