The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-05-06
ASHLAND:
Wednesday, May 6. 1857.
cHIEF JUSTICE ExCOM-
INUNDATED.

INUNDATED.
0REsrEs A. BRowNsoN, the transcen'
dentalisi-the jealous papist of to-day
1.-The infdel of yesterday-the hard
shell Baptist of a twelve-month since
him who "has been everything by turns
and nothing long"-has joined tho I'm
constitutional Party, (as the Chillico-
the Advertiser aptly terms the Repub-
licans,) in their crusade against Chief
Justice fancy.
Nothing has occurred since the late
election Of q Board of Republican
School Directors for Regions District,
JsnniDgs township, Vanwert county.
Ohio, calculated to produce such a pro-
found sensation throughout the country,
or such an effect upon the venerable
Chief Justice. It is supposed, howev-
er, by some, that the Court may yet
survive both these "rebukes," as well,
also, az that in Clearereek township,
where at least three Republican Trus-
tees were recently elected, on the issue
which was fearlessly made by our Re-
publican friends, of--in short--Dred
Scott or no bred Scott
BRowNsoN appears to rest his objec-
tlon to the opinion of the Court upon
the authority of the canous of the last
Church he has Joined. The dogmas of
1.-THE Church" are paramount to the
Constitution, in the Judgment Of Pro-
fessor BaowNsoN. He the
Chief Justice from his bench to the bar
Of the confessional, and thus puts =" the
gospel" to him:
"Mr. ChicfJustice fancy is q Catholic, and
knows that from 1852 the Popes have con-
demned, on pain of accommodation, the re-
duction of African negroes to slavery"
Nj. BRowEsoN must be slightly mis-
taken. He is evidently under the i'm
preston that the official oath which was
administered to Judge TANEY required
him to supports the Pope of Rome and
the Philadelphia and Columbus plat
forms, instead of the Constitution of
the United States. When the {" pro-
fessor" gets fairly " to rights" on this
point, half his troubles will be at an
end. But acting upon the mistaken
promises he did, it is quite natural that
Professor BRowNsoN should indulge in
some q regrets" like these:
ave regret that in giving the opinion of 1.-THE
Court the Judge did not ~recollect what be is
. taught by his religion, namely, the unity of the
race, that all men by the natural law are equal
and that negroes &C a;al, aId therefore as to
their rights must be regarded as standing on
the same footing with white men, where there
Is no positive or municipal law that degrades
them"
The Professor" is a citizen of Mas
~saehusetts. With che " teachings of his
religion" and with the +" positive" and
municipal laws of that crazy old
Commonwealth, which permit. Mr.. B. to
eat, to sleep and to vote with his color
ed brother, the decision of the Federal
! Court, as we understand it, does not in.
terfere. Judge TANEy did not violent.
ly cast down the idols Of Professor
BRoWNsoN. Massachusetts, may allow
negroes and women to vote, and may
proclaim them " citizens" and the deci
sion of the Supreme Court, which is as
sailed with such fierce invectiYe, woulG
not infringe upon this exercise of hel
State sovereignty. Judge TANEY wa,
simply deciding the position of the AT
rican under the Constitution of the Uni
ted States-not of his condition under
tho municipal avs of Massachusetts,, o.
Ohio, or Of any other State. Then why
this " taking onr" Why these I" howls'
when yonr " uithers are unwrungY"
We are no lawyer, but +" a plain man
interpreting the Constitution of the
country according to the fashion anG
standard of the men who framed it, aDc
as the unsopbisticatsd men of this gs
neration, who, like ourselves, occupy thu
workshops and the fields, understand it
and we undertake to say, that by thu
test of reason and truth, which viii
finally prevail, the major part of thi
elamor against the Court will be hush
ed. The Court have laid the axe a
the root of the tree. Had il been di
rectsd ct thai point years ago, it woult
have been better for the repose aut
prosperity of the country. The only sill
of the Court is in being a little in ad
vance of the public sentiment of on
African population. But even tina
race of laggards will finally march u
to the line, and keep step to the must
ofthe Constitution as interpreted by tn
Court. Stick a pin right therei
KANSAS ssAID.D