The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-04-08
Decision or the supreme Court in
E'sFo the Dred Scout Case.

t"' the Dred Scott Case.
notwithstanding the systematized attempt on
the part Of the Black Republican press, says
the Washington Union, 70 use the late decision
Of the Supreme Court IN the Dred Scott case,
Is ths sgitatihg tsieaiutn tS goaa the weak, ig-
tiorant ard AhaticaIinto second crusade against
the Union; the Constitution, and the equality
Of the States, its efforts thus far have not been
attended with even misehevous consequences.
The Democratic and conservative press Of the
country have quietly but most emphatically en-
taorsed this decision IS We'll as the high and
pure s0trce from which It emanated; and it
will prove no easy task, We think, when the
country needs and seeks repose, to set aside
principles, the justice and constitutiOnallty of
which are now generally aid .genertusly recog-
nized, and TO damage in the public esteem a
tribunal which is almost universally regarded as
the ark of safety in times Of political peril. "
As an evidence Of the high spirit in which
this decision is received by the conservative
t,ress, VIC make room for the following well CON
sidered and well written remarks Of the New
York Journal of Commerce:
f'It was iiut to be expected that the abolition
press would readily concur in the wisdom, JUS
tce and constitutionality Of the decision recent
| ly delivered in the Supreme Court OF the Uni
ted States in the Case Of Scott ys. Stanford; but
it was hardly to be supposed that journals
claiming to be respectable should so forget what
is due to public deconcy and decorum as to assert
that the solemn and deliberate Judgment of the
highest tribunal in the land is entitled to no
more arnoral weight than would be the judg-
ment of these congfegated in any Washington
bar room, or to 0ifnpugn the honesty ana pu-
rity of the great constitutional lawyers who oc-
eupy the exalted position Of supreme and final
Judges Of all matters relating to The rit6rpreta
tioh of the constitution atid tic laws. We be-
Iievs; HSwEeef that these Indecent and con-
temptible calumnies will meet with no appro-
wing response beyond the limited circle of disap-
pointed factionists, whose vocation is to TO-
ment strife and discord to subserve individual
selfish ends; that by the great masses of the
people who prefer truth to error, light to dark
ness upon important political questions, the de-
cision viii be respected and honored, and that it
will be accepted as permanent record, stamp
ed with the absolute authority Of the Constitu-
ton itself ,Hmt.r ls #..a s5f
1t is iiow decided on authority which admits
of no appeal or question: and which few will
presume to dispute, that negroes whether bond
or free, cannot be citizens of the United States
according to the constitution; that it is not il
4 the power Of any ole patsicdlar State, by con
ferring citiseriship within its limits on negro
to eridow him with full citizenship in the othel
States of the ;Unien without their consent; thai
the ordinance of 1887 adopted by the thirteen
colonies while they formed confederation "fol
mutual protection" was superseded by the pres
ent constitution, which was not framed until of.
ter the passage of that ordinance, and which, SC
FAR from prohibiting slavery or involuntary SER
vitude, expressly declares that nothing in the
constitution shall be so construed as to preju.
dice any claims of the United States or of any
particular State" with regard to the common
property; that as necessary sequence of this
decision, the act Of 1890, known as the Missouri
Compromise is vod and unwarranted by the
Constitution, it not being in the power Of Con-
gress to draw an arbitrary line across the Uni.
ted States and to declare that north of that
line United States citizens are forbidden to hold
slaves; that the temporary residence of slave
in q free State, does not legally render him free
when he returns to slave State; and that it is
not in the power of Congress ito legislate sla-
very into any State or territory, nor to exclude il
therefrom,,, but that the Constitution vests that
power in the people of the States and Terrific
ries alone, who are perfectly free to form ant
regulate their domestic institutions in their owl
way subject only to the provisions Of the Con
: stfStHion of the United States lst .g lf.
30 The vast and comprehensive social and politi
cal Importance Of this lucid and convincing
Judgment Of the first constitutional authorize.
in the republic cannot be too highly estimated
It dissipates tie mist in which we have beer
envolved for years; it exposes in all their defor
! nifty the slavery heresies by which we have
been disturbed more than half century; il
lays down in language stripped of all sophistry
or sectional bias the relations which should ex.
list between the States and Territories of tht
Union; it gives the North to the South, to the
East, and to the West the true chart and com
pass by which to steer, and it proclaims to th,
people that they alone have the right, at al
times and under all circumstances, to- pro1id,
tiscirs swn local government, to regulate thei
own affairs, and to decide for themselves wheth
or they will or will not adopt domestic soryitatl
as one Of their institutions.
"a The people, who reverence the Constitution
and the laws, and who only need to be shown
the truth to adopt and obey it, viii hail the de
cision with satisfaction, and will regard its au
/ thortive and final settlement of grievous sec
tional issues as almost the greatest political bool
which has been vouchsafed to us since the fomda
{ tioaof the Republic. The demagogues who se
! the fuel upon which they relied for kindlin,
The fames of discord and fanaticism, thus snatch
ed from their grasp may seek to assail the illus
tfious judges by whiciftlGs grand exposition 0
= Constitutional rights mas Been promulgated
{ but their shafts can never reach the heigh
. which those gifted meRoecupy as welf by thei
offichi station as in the Uhe vcneration and res
Ipeetof tlaepecple.ns4s oid s'3a zfa sly
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think that Mr., Bold Is q handsome manT'
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