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Dred Scott

AGITATION OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION.

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

Weekly North Carolina Standard
Raleigh, North Carolina
3-11-1857
Democratic
The Supreme Court of the United States, on Friday last, delivered through Chief Justice Taney its decision in the Dred Scott case, containing the following opinions:
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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No Title.

Republican Journal
Columbus, Wisconsin
3-31-1857
Republican
It strikes at the very vitals ofour free institutions
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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SUPREME COURT vs. THE ABOLITIONISTS.

Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Virginia
3-13-1857
Democratic
Abolitionism must now unmask, and wage its warfare openly and above board against the government
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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
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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
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The Decision in the Dred Scott Case.

Louisville Journal
Louisville, Kentucky
3-16-1857
American
At a single blow it shatters and destroys the platform of the Republican party.
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The Decision in the Supreme Court.

Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
3-9-1857
American
The decision just made in the Dred Scott case, an obscure African, by the Supreme Court of the United States, is probably the most important that ever emanated from that highest tribunal of our country.
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The Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case.

Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat
Little Rock, Arkansas
4-4-1857
American
The Black Republican papers, with but few exceptions, so far as we have seen, are down upon the Supreme Court, for their decision in the Dred Scott case.
Dred Scott

The Decision of the Supreme Court.

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

Natchez Daily Courier
Natchez, Mississippi
3-14-1857
American
This is a seeming blow at the doctrine of squatter sovereignty, but not quite as hard a one as we could wish the Court had given.
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THE DRED SCOTT CASE.

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

Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
3-11-1857
American
we can but foresee that this decision will create, everywhere, a profound sensation
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The Dred Scott Decision.

Sun
Baltimore, Maryland
3-10-1857
American
the United States Supreme Court decides the unconstitutionality of the Missouri compromise act, and rules that a colored man cannot be a citizen of the United States
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The Dred Scott Decision: Its Legal and Political Consequences

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

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

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

The 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.
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The Past and the Future.

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

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