Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1856-12-25
Eg- A question has recently been ar

Rg- A question has recently been ar
gued before the Supreme Court Of the
United States, involving the coustitu-
tionality Of the late Missouri Compro-
mise-in fact involving the rightfulness
Of slavery in its length and BREADTH
bred Scott was born i'll territory, over
which the Missouri Compromise prohib-
iting slavery, cxtended-he was subse-
quently taken into a slave State, and
there claimed and held as n slave. He
now sues for his-freedom on the ground
that being born where Slavery was pro
hibited and did not exist, he was born
free, and his subsequent seizure and use
rs a slave, was unlawful and should be
so declared. As we said, and as will bC
seen, this involves the constitutionality
Of the Missouri Compromise, and We
suppose incidentally, and perhaps pri
marily, the point, always heretofore con
coded, whether carrying slaves into free
territory, renders them free.
The n. y. Tribune, expresses the
opinion that the Court will decide the
Compromise to have been mconstitu-
tional, and will remand bred to Slavery,
which of course will carry with it the
other point, viz: that all territory is pre-
sumed to .be slave territory, and the
Slave Holders can 90 where they please
in territories of the Union, with that spe.
cies of property. We think also, such
will be their decision. There is sort
Of popular delusion, that Judges, and
particularly those Of the Supreme Court
of the L. S. are a class of men elevated
above all the motives, feelings, and pas
Sions which move ordinary humanity,
and whatever they say or do, has sort
of divine freedom from the impurities
which clog all else human, However
pleasant this may be, it is delusion af-
ter all. They are men made, moved
and governed as other men are, and
their decisions are arrived at, as are de
ciSions of other men on other subjects
through the medium Of the influences
which made them, which surround them,
and press upon them. They are the
creatures of the President, born and
warmed to life and sustained rs all 9TH
CT agencies around the Central Govern
ment, through the medium of the slave
power. They are men whose proclivi-
ties are in favor of that power, or they
would not have been selected. To sup
pose them uninfueneed by the decisions
of the people, the authority in power,
and the influences and atmosphere in
which they move, is to suppose some
thing which don't exist. We infer that
their decision will be as the Tribune
suspects, simply because at present such
appears to be the temper and fashion OF
the times.
The progress of Constitutional re.
Election and investigations" as the Pres
iieut calls it, viii have its effect OH the
Court AS well as ca Congress, and wi
slal. have the fruits from one as from
the other.
In the mean time, it is refreshing tC
find large number of apparently sensi
BILE men, congratulating themselves tha
the Anti-Slavery bubble has final,
burst" and the nation is to be troubled
no more. We made the mistake in III,
late contest of supposing that the strif
in this matter was fairly organized anC
had come to a head. We overlooke,
the dodge" which "Squatter Sovereign
tyN furnished, and uder-estimated it
influence in misleading voters. We,shal
beat them on their own ground, an,
compel them boldly to take the position
of the abstract rightfulness of Slavery
and its authority to go where and stay
where it pleaSes. They. are already
gradually moving on TO that ground
This decision, should it be as appre-
hended, viii do much toward clearing