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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
	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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
	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) A New Party. Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-27-1854 Whig It is time that minor differences should be forgotten or laid aside.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) A WORD TO SOUTHERN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-23-1854 Whig Cowardice is thought a great stain at the South, yet political cowardice has of late years become nest to universal there
	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) Agitation. Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 1-27-1854 Whig This is a bold bid of Douglas for the next Presidency.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Amendments to the Nebraska Bill. Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-23-1854 Whig Let the public see where the truth is.
	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) ANOTHER NEBRASKA BILL. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-9-1854 Whig We now learn that a body of the representatives of the South, who are always united in the support of all schemes for the extension of the patriarchal institution, and who now anticipate a certain victory with the aid of the northern doughfaces, have still another deception in contemplation.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Compromises. Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-16-1854 Whig The whole slavery agitation has been reopened by the South themselves.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Congress and the Nebraska Bill. Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 11-23-1854 Whig The debate on the Nebraska-Kansas bill terminated in the House on Saturday at 12 o'clock, prior to which as arrangement was agreed upon for gentlemen who had not spoken on the subject to be permitted to print their speeches.
	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) How Nebraska was Passed. Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-25-1854 Whig A Washington correspondent writing in reference to the change of front by a number of Northern members, says,
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) IS IT A FRAUD? New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-15-1854 Whig the bill of Douglas, in so far as it proposes to disturb the Missouri Compromise, involves gross perfidy, and is bolstered up by the most audacious false pretenses and frauds.
	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) 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. CLAY AND THE COMPROMISES. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-16-1854 Whig the daily misrepresentations of the paid organs of the Government in regard to every other point in the existing controversy.
	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 Bill Passed Finally. Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-25-1854 Whig The struggle on the Nebraska-Kansas bill has finally terminated by its passage by both Houses.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Nebraska in the Senate. Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2-2-1854 Whig This is Slavery fairly developed. Like Catholicism, it cannot bear discussion.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Nebraska. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-10-1854 Whig We cannot conceive how intelligent and conscientious men, who possess a real regard for the great doctrines of human freedom, can excuse themselves for such an abandonment as that which we have been apprised is in contemplation.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) Nebraska. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-23-1854 Whig Is it not time that the Press of the Free States, without distinction of party, should speak out on this question?
	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) NEW YORK ON NEBRASKA. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-28-1854 Whig For our own part, we regard this Nebraska movement of Douglas and his backers as one of measureless treachery and infamy.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-23-1854 Whig Slavery crawls, like a slimy reptile over the ruins, to defile a second eden.
	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. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-13-1854 Whig The opposition to the Nebraska bill is gaining daily.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-14-1854 Whig The honor of the South, therefore, cannot be trusted where the interests of Slavery are involved, because on such occasions the voice of honor and truth is always silenced by the clamor of low, brutal and selfish passions.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-14-1854 Whig it will probably pass as an Administration measure.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-24-1854 Whig we judge he is after keeping up the equilibrium of things by making a slave and a free State out of his two proposed territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) No Title. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-25-1854 Whig The Adminstration is determined to put through DOUGLAS'S Nebraska bill before public opinion cows the timid.
	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) 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) SELF-GOVERNMENT. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-4-1854 Whig the last desperate resort of the burglar to deceive his pursuers, is embraced.
	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) SLAVERY IN THE FIELD. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-6-1854 Whig An overt attempt is set on foot in Mr. Douglas's Nebraska bill to override the Missouri Compromise.
	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) SLAVERY MILITANT. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-11-1854 Whig Slavery is an Ishmael. It is malevolent and malignant. It loves aggression, for when it ceases to be aggressive it stagnates and decays.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) SLAVERY'S USE OF NEBRASKA. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-24-1854 Whig where is the man brazen enough to avow that we need any more slave- breeding districts?
	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) 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. 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 Iniquity to be Consummated. Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-20-1854 Whig It is now reduced to a certainty that the Nebraskabill, which is repudiated by every honest man, and whose author's name is execrated from Canadato Cuba, will pass Congress.
	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 LATEST NEWS. RECEIVED BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH FROM WASHINGTON. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-16-1854 Whig Douglas purposes now to bring up the Nebraska bill forthwith, and to "cram it down,"
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) THE LATEST NEWS. RECEIVED BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-24-1854 Whig DOUGLAS'S new bill has taken the best friends of the Administration by surprise.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) THE LATEST NEWS. RECEIVED BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. From our own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan.17, 1854. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-18-1854 Whig Some of the Southern members are startled at the discovery that Douglas's Nebraska bill is a violation of the Compromise of 1850.
	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 MOTIVE. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-3-1854 Whig The Nebraska bill is a Presidential scheme.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Nebraska Bill Passed! Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-23-1854 Whig The infamous act has been forced upon the country by the power of an oligarchy
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Nebraska Bill Passed. Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-24-1854 Whig The South may depend upon it that the confidence in their honor has been woefully shaken by this repeal of a solemn compact.
	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 Bribe. Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-22-1854 Whig The time approaches for the final vote on the Nebraska bill in the House of Representatives.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) THE NEBRASKA SWINDLE. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 5-12-1854 Whig he contest has begun on that infamous measure.
	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 Pennsylvania Black List. Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-22-1854 Whig We give below the names of the eleven traitors to Pennsylvania and the North, who voted to take up the Nebraska bill, with a view to its immediate passage.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Plans of the Slave Power. Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 6-6-1854 Whig The transitionfrom a compliance with this demand to the universal toleration of slavery at the North, is but a step and an easy one.
	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 RASCALS AT WASHINGTON New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-26-1854 Whig Sober minded men, who have leaned to the side of the South in the late contests, on the ground that the Abolitionists were the aggressors, will turn and resist this movement as a gross outrage and aggression on the part of the South.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) The Slave Power. Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-20-1854 Whig It is a solemn question for the freemen of the Free States to ask themselves, how far they intend to follow the beck of the slave power and to fulfil their plans for supremacy.
	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) TRAITORS AND DOUGHFACES. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-6-1854 Whig contempt for the juggling doughfaces who are mediating this monstrous treachery
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) WEBSTER AND NEBRASKA. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-8-1854 Whig We recommend their perusal to the small fry who are just now making a parade of their great astuteness in the reproduction of Mr. Calhouns's doctrine of the unconstitutionality of excluding Slavery from the territories; a doctrine which his ingenious sophistry alone could shield from contempt.
	Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854) WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-20-1854 Whig The Satanic Press audaciously asserts that the public opinion of this City is in favor of Douglas's Nebraska bill
	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 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 All the Courtesy.-- Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-30-1856 Republican The South boasts all the Chivalry:
	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 As We Knew He Must. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-28-1856 Republican The Statesman has at last spoken.
	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 Attack on Mr. Sumner. Boston Daily Bee Boston, Massachusetts 5-23-1856 American An outrage so gross and villianous was neverbefore committed within the walls of the Capitol.
	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 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 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 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. 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. 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 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 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 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 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 ATTACK UPON MR. SUMNER. Boston Courier Boston, Massachusetts 5-23-1856 Whig The member from South Carolina transgressed every rule of honor which should animate or restrain one gentleman in his connections with another, in his ruffian assault upon Mr. Sumner. There is no chivalry in a brute. There is no manliness in a scoundrel.
	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 Sumner Assault. Boston Courier Boston, Massachusetts 5-26-1856 Whig The object of the Atlas is to obtain personal and political capital from the occurrence at Washington
	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 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 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.
	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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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)

A New Party.

Hartford Daily Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
5-27-1854
Whig
It is time that minor differences should be forgotten or laid aside.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

A WORD TO SOUTHERN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
2-23-1854
Whig
Cowardice is thought a great stain at the South, yet political cowardice has of late years become nest to universal there

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)

Agitation.

Hartford Daily Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
1-27-1854
Whig
This is a bold bid of Douglas for the next Presidency.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Amendments to the Nebraska Bill.

Hartford Daily Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
5-23-1854
Whig
Let the public see where the truth is.

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)

ANOTHER NEBRASKA BILL.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
2-9-1854
Whig
We now learn that a body of the representatives of the South, who are always united in the support of all schemes for the extension of the patriarchal institution, and who now anticipate a certain victory with the aid of the northern doughfaces, have still another deception in contemplation.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Compromises.

Hartford Daily Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
5-16-1854
Whig
The whole slavery agitation has been reopened by the South themselves.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Congress and the Nebraska Bill.

Morning Herald
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
11-23-1854
Whig
The debate on the Nebraska-Kansas bill terminated in the House on Saturday at 12 o'clock, prior to which as arrangement was agreed upon for gentlemen who had not spoken on the subject to be permitted to print their speeches.

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)

How Nebraska was Passed.

Morning Herald
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
5-25-1854
Whig
A Washington correspondent writing in reference to the change of front by a number of Northern members, says,

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

IS IT A FRAUD?

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
2-15-1854
Whig
the bill of Douglas, in so far as it proposes to disturb the Missouri Compromise, involves gross perfidy, and is bolstered up by the most audacious false pretenses and frauds.

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)

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. CLAY AND THE COMPROMISES.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
2-16-1854
Whig
the daily misrepresentations of the paid organs of the Government in regard to every other point in the existing controversy.

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 Bill Passed Finally.

Morning Herald
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
5-25-1854
Whig
The struggle on the Nebraska-Kansas bill has finally terminated by its passage by both Houses.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Nebraska in the Senate.

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2-2-1854
Whig
This is Slavery fairly developed. Like Catholicism, it cannot bear discussion.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Nebraska.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-10-1854
Whig
We cannot conceive how intelligent and conscientious men, who possess a real regard for the great doctrines of human freedom, can excuse themselves for such an abandonment as that which we have been apprised is in contemplation.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

Nebraska.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-23-1854
Whig
Is it not time that the Press of the Free States, without distinction of party, should speak out on this question?

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)

NEW YORK ON NEBRASKA.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-28-1854
Whig
For our own part, we regard this Nebraska movement of Douglas and his backers as one of measureless treachery and infamy.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title

Albany Evening Journal
Albany, New York
5-23-1854
Whig
Slavery crawls, like a slimy reptile over the ruins, to defile a second eden.

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.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-13-1854
Whig
The opposition to the Nebraska bill is gaining daily.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-14-1854
Whig
The honor of the South, therefore, cannot be trusted where the interests of Slavery are involved, because on such occasions the voice of honor and truth is always silenced by the clamor of low, brutal and selfish passions.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-14-1854
Whig
it will probably pass as an Administration measure.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-24-1854
Whig
we judge he is after keeping up the equilibrium of things by making a slave and a free State out of his two proposed territories of Nebraska and Kansas.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

No Title.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-25-1854
Whig
The Adminstration is determined to put through DOUGLAS'S Nebraska bill before public opinion cows the timid.

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)

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)

SELF-GOVERNMENT.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
2-4-1854
Whig
the last desperate resort of the burglar to deceive his pursuers, is embraced.

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)

SLAVERY IN THE FIELD.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-6-1854
Whig
An overt attempt is set on foot in Mr. Douglas's Nebraska bill to override the Missouri Compromise.

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)

SLAVERY MILITANT.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-11-1854
Whig
Slavery is an Ishmael. It is malevolent and malignant. It loves aggression, for when it ceases to be aggressive it stagnates and decays.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

SLAVERY'S USE OF NEBRASKA.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
2-24-1854
Whig
where is the man brazen enough to avow that we need any more slave- breeding districts?

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)

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.

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 Iniquity to be Consummated.

Morning Herald
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
5-20-1854
Whig
It is now reduced to a certainty that the Nebraskabill, which is repudiated by every honest man, and whose author's name is execrated from Canadato Cuba, will pass Congress.

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 LATEST NEWS. RECEIVED BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH FROM WASHINGTON.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-16-1854
Whig
Douglas purposes now to bring up the Nebraska bill forthwith, and to "cram it down,"

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

THE LATEST NEWS. RECEIVED BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-24-1854
Whig
DOUGLAS'S new bill has taken the best friends of the Administration by surprise.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

THE LATEST NEWS. RECEIVED BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. From our own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Jan.17, 1854.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-18-1854
Whig
Some of the Southern members are startled at the discovery that Douglas's Nebraska bill is a violation of the Compromise of 1850.

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 MOTIVE.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
2-3-1854
Whig
The Nebraska bill is a Presidential scheme.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Nebraska Bill Passed!

Daily Pittsburgh Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
5-23-1854
Whig
The infamous act has been forced upon the country by the power of an oligarchy

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Nebraska Bill Passed.

Hartford Daily Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
5-24-1854
Whig
The South may depend upon it that the confidence in their honor has been woefully shaken by this repeal of a solemn compact.

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 Bribe.

Morning Herald
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
5-22-1854
Whig
The time approaches for the final vote on the Nebraska bill in the House of Representatives.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

THE NEBRASKA SWINDLE.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
5-12-1854
Whig
he contest has begun on that infamous measure.

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 Pennsylvania Black List.

Morning Herald
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
5-22-1854
Whig
We give below the names of the eleven traitors to Pennsylvania and the North, who voted to take up the Nebraska bill, with a view to its immediate passage.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Plans of the Slave Power.

Hartford Daily Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
6-6-1854
Whig
The transitionfrom a compliance with this demand to the universal toleration of slavery at the North, is but a step and an easy one.

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 RASCALS AT WASHINGTON

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
1-26-1854
Whig
Sober minded men, who have leaned to the side of the South in the late contests, on the ground that the Abolitionists were the aggressors, will turn and resist this movement as a gross outrage and aggression on the part of the South.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

The Slave Power.

Hartford Daily Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
5-20-1854
Whig
It is a solemn question for the freemen of the Free States to ask themselves, how far they intend to follow the beck of the slave power and to fulfil their plans for supremacy.

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)

TRAITORS AND DOUGHFACES.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
2-6-1854
Whig
contempt for the juggling doughfaces who are mediating this monstrous treachery

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

WEBSTER AND NEBRASKA.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
2-8-1854
Whig
We recommend their perusal to the small fry who are just now making a parade of their great astuteness in the reproduction of Mr. Calhouns's doctrine of the unconstitutionality of excluding Slavery from the territories; a doctrine which his ingenious sophistry alone could shield from contempt.

Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)

WHAT THE PEOPLE THINK.

New-York Daily Tribune
New York, New York
2-20-1854
Whig
The Satanic Press audaciously asserts that the public opinion of this City is in favor of Douglas's Nebraska bill

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 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

All the Courtesy.--

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

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

As We Knew He Must.

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

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

Attack on Mr. Sumner.

Boston Daily Bee
Boston, Massachusetts
5-23-1856
American
An outrage so gross and villianous was neverbefore committed within the walls of the Capitol.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 ATTACK UPON MR. SUMNER.

Boston Courier
Boston, Massachusetts
5-23-1856
Whig
The member from South Carolina transgressed every rule of honor which should animate or restrain one gentleman in his connections with another, in his ruffian assault upon Mr. Sumner. There is no chivalry in a brute. There is no manliness in a scoundrel.

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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 Sumner Assault.

Boston Courier
Boston, Massachusetts
5-26-1856
Whig
The object of the Atlas is to obtain personal and political capital from the occurrence at Washington

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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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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

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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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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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