St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-03-26
The Supreme Court Of the United States.

The decision of tribunal in the bred
Scott case, is variously received by
the people and the papers representing
them. Some "submit quietly, as
they did to Bnchanan's apparent cleo
ton, although they were confident of
enormous frauds in Indiana and Penn
sylvania. Others can't exactly make
up their minds what to do, and others
seem disposed to send the whole tribu-
nal to the limbo of things lost OH
earth. The Telegraph" of this CITY.
even goes so far as to say:
at is great misfortune that the Supremc
Court cannot he got rid of as easily as Cusb.
ing. A majority of its members are as great
scoundrels as he is, and that is the worst "a
well as the trucst thing that can be said of
them .-....-.
Doubtless this decision is as Anti.
Republican and unjust as the most
despotic cdict of Napoleon doubtless
the trainers of the Constitution Or
dained to secure Liberty, would shud-
der to find their work transformed in
to vast engine for securing slavery
but, nevertheless, 1t isthc lac enunci-
atc,l by the supreme tribunal, and from
It there lies no appeal.
When South Carolina nullified laws
which this same Court pronounced
constitutional, Massachusetts, through
Daniel Webster, said, "You must sub
nit to the Supreme Court" When
this Court said the Fugitive Slave Law
which Washington signed, and its sue
cessor which Webster approved, was
constitutional, moderate men said to
the dissatisfied nearer home, "You
must submit" Now decision has
come, outraging every principal which
the Constitution was specially ordaiD-
ed to protect, and unless we are pre-
pared to revolutionize the form of gov
eminent, zee must submit
We regret to see in any respectable
print such virulent denunciation of anv
tribunal of law, as we have quoted
above. Contempt of Courts saps and
undermines the whole basis of our re-
publican institutions. Our govern
ment has no vast legionary force, it's
laws are not held up in a gauntletcd
hand, nor read at the head of militia
ry column. The dcep-seated rever-
ence for lac, for the fiat of Judge and
Jury, prevailing among the people as
whole, is the grand foundation of the
government. Whenever this reverence
passes away, we shall be ready first
for anarchy, and then for an American
Louis Napoleon. We deplore any APP
peals to the people in moments of ex-
element tending to unsettle their feel
ing of respect for law. Even if
Judges are divided and are not always
right, even if Juries are sometimes
whimsical, what can we rely on but
them? If you "get rid of the Su-
preme Court" what will you set up ?
and if your substitute goes wrong in
any great point, who shall decide up
on the second substitute for it?
We have but one tyrant in America,
and that is, the law. There is no 9TH
err Governor known among men, en-
ccpting-the monarch. 1t is either
the judgment seat or the throne.
Have we, as Republicans then, no
remedy against this gigantic fraud
upon the declaration of Independence,
of which our Supreme Court has been
guilty? We have. The L. S. Senate
may be made more Republican. The
President may be made out of north
ern wood, hardened with northern
principles.
No such basis as this decision fur.
nishes for a grand and conqucring Ma
tionol Republican party has ever be-
fore existed. Law must be obeyed.
the Constitution, as legally interpret
ed, must be supported but inasmuch
as the South have taken possession of
the Supreme Court of America, the
North has no remedy but to take pos
session of the Government of Amcri-
ca.
With a Senate not decidedly Anti
Republican, and President all Re-
publican, the vacancies sure to arise
in that Court, will be filled with men
who believe that Freedom is the ma
tional policy, Slavery the INDUCED ex-
ception.-Bostom Iraraier. -