Litchfield enquirer., 1857-03-19
The Dred Scott Case.

AAV AAOo oCUtG VdSCs We refrain for the presert from any comments of our own upon the extraordinary decision in the case of Drcd Scott, further than to say that it is the deadest blow which has been aimed at the liberties of America since the days of Benedict Arnold. d.-Bostom Atias.
 From the N. Tribunc]
 This decision, we need hardly say, is en- titled to just so r:uch moral weig ght as would De the judgment of majority of those con gregated in any Washington Larroom. It is ] a dietum prescribed by the stump to the bench the bowieknite sticking in the stump ready for instant use if needed It is of d piece with the votes of Benton, Dix and Bagby for the Annexation of Texas with the boundary cf the Rio Grande. .. This judgment annihilates all compromises and brings us face to face with the great issue ill the right shapc''
 From the N. Y. 1incs.1 ! It is impossible tc exagg, rate the import ance of this decision. It g'vcs the sanction off constitutional law to the practical revolution which for some years past has been going Oil in the policy of the GovcrumcntA upon this subject, and engrafts upon the theory of the Republic the doctrines upon which Mr. Calhoun labored in vain, during the last years of his life, to rally even the people of the Southern States. But one more decision is needed to make slavery the actual law of the whole Re public, and render it's prohib't'on in any of Me i .States null and void and this we shall prob ably have when the Lennon case reaches the same tribunal which has just rev, rsed the whole policy O the Government in regard to the territories From the Worcester spy.]
 Seven out of nine of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial tribunal of the Union, ir ..ho year of grace 1857, have thus united to echo the demands of the slave power by tramp ! ling under foot the great truths for the estab- .nent of which the Revolution was fought and our national government established.
 1 Whether, after all the recent aggressoEs Of the slave power, and especially this last mon strous usufpation, there be enough of liberty worth living for, in our mi ;named Republic, the true ycoinanry of the country, who love freedom and hate oppression, must decide for themselves. For ourselves we think it looks uGnitessmay small"
 [Fr, m the Springfield Republican
 '.The originality and modcrnncss of these doctrines, that now spring forth, full blown, from the Supreme Court and the great Demo- cratic party, will strike everybody at all f;- milar with our political history They are found nowhere in the political, sectional or judicial discussions of the country, previous to 1S4O The entire course and practice of the government, in all itG departments, was against Jefferson Monroe, Madison Jackson, Calhoun i l. and iurists, until within these dozen year.: have upheld and defended the opposing princ- ipleS. Their introduction row. under such au- thoritics constituting them at once the ruling doctrines of the land, makes an era a rerou- tion in our progress as |: nation, and shows to what fatal extent the interests of false system of labor and of society have possessed themselves of all departments of tLE govern mcnt"
 From the New Bedford Standard
 "Wc can view the decision pronounced by the Court in no other light than than as an outrage upon humanity and a barbarism."
 From tue \. Y. Evening Post1
 i "Hcreafter, if this decision shall stand for law, slavery, instead of being what the people of the slaves States have hitherto called it. their peculiar institution, is federal institution the common patrmony and shame If all tn. States, those wh;c. faunt with the title Of frec as well as those which accept the stigma of being the Ianl of Bondage hereafter wherever our tnriSltt'on extends. it carries with il the chain and the econrge- wherever our flag fonts, it is tine dag of slavery If SO that flag should have the light of the stars and the strcakS of running red erased from it it should be dyed black and its devise should be the whip aud the fttcr.
 Are We 10 accept, wit out question: tlcsc new readings of the constitution to sit down contentediy under this dSgracc---to admit that the constitution was never before rht,v un- derstool, even by those wio framed ito consent that hereafter it shall be the slave holders instead of the frcemcn's constitution Never Never ! We hold tlat the proyis- :oas of the constitution, so far as they regard slavery are now just what they were when it was framed, and that no trick of interprl tation can change them.
 From the Albany Evening Journal.
 /! The conspiracy is nearly completed. The Legislation of the Republic is iu the hands of this handful of Shareholders The United States Senate assures it to them The Exec ntive power of the Government is theirs. Bt- chanan took the oath of fcaIty to them on,thc steps of the Capitol last Wednesday. The body which gives the supreme law of the land, has just acccdrd to their demands
 Beneath Courts and Congresses and Presi- dents are the great PEoPLE. They love lib erty-they love humanity Till they affirm the decisions of Law embruting mars divine nature, and til they approve of Legislation which defcs God, and till they order Execu- tires to cxccnte iniqn'ty, this conspiracy Of. the OligarclIy is wholly is wholly incomplete. That consent will forever and ever be wanting. But one thing will net bc wanting-tle resoInte