The Washington union., 1857-08-26

THE DRIED ScoTr CASE IN ENGLAND.

The article in the Westminster Review the slavery
question Is t companion TO the article In the Edinburgh
Review on the same subject on which we commented
shott time ago Roth are but rtsm< OF the abolition
matter current in this country at the date of their
spectvc composition At the time the Edinburgh article
appeared the burden of aboionism the Kansas inn
brogo and there end to the absurdity and folly
set down in the pages of the Review this fertile theme
AT the time Of the publication of the Westminster Review
the Dred Scott decision the abolition burden, and
this article contains summary Of abolition folly this
subject that is nothing less than Hayayfque
As an Illustration Of this ieuiark let take the West
ninstcrs summary Of two Of the points which the SUI
preme Court have decided in this Dcd Scott Its
words are:
LIST That negroes and people of color not citizens
and that as a consequence Dred Scott could not come
into court This, If true settled Dred Scotts bust
ness ard that Of four millions of his natives Of the
United States
ID That slaves property, in the as any
Kind of chattc; that slave-owner may carry his
goes into any State of the Union and settle them there
AZ slaves notwithstanding any State laws to the contra
n.y. If this Is true the whole Union is slave territory,
and the sovereign States have power to deliver them
selves from It. 1t needs showing that this up by
the roots the fundamental liberties of every republic in
the union and enslaves the federal Union itself under
assumed ordinance of long dead generation.
Now absurd all this sthe height of absurity ii
t Is by no mems original with the Westminster. III
is all set down in American sectional journals.
1t is the stuff that bitter political paans have Invented
and that their creulous followers believe Ii Is pure
unmitigated party calumny and it is what desperate
political agitators in spite of the most conclusive refuta
tion wish have circulated about the Supreme Court
and mean, if they ran, the people shall credit
The Westminster Review will be surprised TO know
that there is in every line have cited II is not
that the Supreme Court have decided that people
color not citizens. On the contrary the court ex.
prey again and again states that the broad question
Of s not before it. 1t is not true that Dred Scott
put out Of court because he negro but because he
was slave 1t is not true that the court have decided
that stakeholder legally carry his slaves into any
State the Union and settle them there as slaves nots
withstmding any State laws to the contrary but with
the single exception of the obligation return the fugi.
tive slave the court have decided that the supreme power
over the subject Of slavery is in the States both to make
the local law and TO interpret the law by its courts
The Westminster Review we repeat, can find author
ity for the whole of the batch of absurdy and sehood
which has reproduced in the columns of our opposition
presses But this Is place for such Journal to resort
to for s opinions or rather, ii it looks side it
ought also 60 look at the other side and above all il
ought to look into the opinion of the Supreme Court 1t
deserves the condemnation for not doing the lat
ing this opinion, state two points of it, in the
in which the Westminster Review has stated them
without stating downright fasehood.