Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-26
How the bred Scott Case came
up-.Drcd'S Master Insane.

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Courier and Enquirer says Of
the Dred Scott case:
MIR. Sanford never willingly consented
to the appeal Of this cause from the Mis-
souri Courts, and that he did not wish to
contest it. 1t was his desire ana intention
to emancipate the whole family as soon as
he could make the proper arrangements to
do so, and remove them from the State of
Missouri. He believed they were fully en-
titled to their freedom. l am assured by
one Of Sanford's relatives that he only con
sented to place himself in the attitude of
defendant after enduring an amount of
importantly, badgering and worrying from
persons having no other than political in
terest in the case, which it was not in the
strength of his nature to resist; and the re-
suit of the persecution to which he has been
subjected is, that he lost his reason, and is
now the inmate of mad-house. So no
torious was it nearly a year ago that this
cause was prepared in order to foist spu-
rious political issue upon the Court, for the
benefit of the party of Slavery exlention,
that higher officer in the law department
of the government, in duty bound to con-
cur in its whole policy, admitted to me
that it had the appearance, and that he ex-
pected the Couit would throw it out upon
that ground.
IT'S ULTIMATE OBJECT.
In regard to the ultimate object of the
decision the same correspondent says that
Judge Taney's decision carries the political
institution of slavery into the free States,
and is destined to do so. He adds:
The majority of the Supreme must be
perfectly aware of the full scope of the
principle announced BY them. They hare
said that slaves are property by the Con-
stitution, that as such they 60 into the Ter
ritories in defiance of the laws of Congress
and of the Territorial Legislatures. They
mean to say that in pursuance of the same
power the STAKEHOLDER may carry his pro-
perfy into the free States, and that the leg
islation of those States cannot deprive him
of it, nor weaken his title to it.
Judge Kane has already said it as to the
State of Pennsylvania and it cannot be
doubted that the Supreme Court had his
dicfcm in their mind in using the language
which they did, and meant to confirm it.
| believe, therefore, that this opinion is de-
liberately enunciated for the purpose of
being acted upon, and that it is the begin
ming of an agitation with objects most hos
tile to the peace of our free communities
The assertion and the exercise of this power
simply constitute the re-cstablishment of
Slavery in our States, not by Co. gress and
not by our own laws, but by partisan and
sectional Committee acting as Court in
Washington City. For if by force of the
Constitution, citizens of other States may
hold slaves in New York for ono hour, they
may for a lifetime; if they can hold them
hey can sell them or hire them; they can
set up barracoons and establish regular de-
pots for vast coastwise slave trade; and
Ill this, under the Constitution of the Uni
ed States, and in defiance and contempt
If the sovereignty of the State. of New
York.