Litchfield enquirer., 1857-03-19

WE trust every man into whose mind the light of Northern institution has sufficiently penetrated, to admit of the spelling of decision, will thoughtfully and dispassionaely peruse the opinion of chief jus ticc Fancy in the of Dred Scott This decision does not como heralded along the magnetic wires as the latest news fror. Kansas it does not come on the eve of Presidential Election 1t is no exaggcr- ated statement, but the calm, carefully dgested opinion If the highest court in the Republic. In this light every man must view it! Let him ask himself what docs il foreshadow.
 We do not propose to examine this marvellous piece of legal quibhln. but if there is voter in this state into whose hands this paper shall all who has not thoroughly perused the decision, do en- treat of him in the name of patriotism and in the name of honor that he will maks haste to find it.
 Last summer when the news reached us that Law renee had fallen that Free State men were murdered upon their farms, that Slaveryblack anl accurscd, WIS Being forced upon the State, we tremtled-yet trambled amid hope for the futurs but what was that onslaught upon Free States men, what those brutal attacks of drunken, vagabond rabble in comparison to this outrage, and repudiation of OUT oldest, mos. btnding and sacred obligations to hu manitys
 For fully year this case was set aside withou. any ostensblc reason who, however doubts that it WIS kept Back, lest it should interfere with the ee ton of @ Northern man with Southern principles i? Hence we perceive the result tow proclaimed, was decision of twelve months past, carefully withheld uatl the chains of another four years of serviude under southern task masters were rivetted upon us This decision virtually denies the doctrine of State Rights A negro, because tinctured with blood of a darker hSe than ours is forbidden the equality of citizen of the United States and forbidden the re- dress of state courts having been taken into state by his master whose ordinances proclair: him free. We will not impugn the honesty of Judge Fancy in this decision, but will grant him all purity of thought regarding it; what however, are we to ex- pect in the futsve. when in the light of such. evi- dencc as was before aim he gave utterance to these wordss -s..
 .It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion respecting that unfortunate class neyroes with the civilized and enlightened portion or the world at the time St the tsea.lon . 0t m but history shows they had for more thasI century bcn regarded as beings of inferior order and an' fit associates for the white race, etsef soeaay oi politically, and had no rigs ahih ssat "ss s'e Asaad b rspesf, aud the black nrn might oe tseuee S s. article of merchandise Fms opifon af fha' ame sea' fired aad upigesai oA ths ciplzed portion ef he ~ha race. aesardsd ss arsos n sorGis whn no on'
 thought of disputiay, and ereiy one h9adty aced upon a ,cthoat doubiag for mouent s eorreness q fae osnso And in no nation was this opinion more faxCd and generally actet upon than in England the sue9ecss of which Government not only soEcd them on the Coast d A5it,, but took them, os esdnssy neFehan