The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-05-14

TEE DRIED SCOTT DECISION IN PENNSYLVANIA
Under date Of Harrisburg May IL, We find the fol-
lowing special Geographic despatch in the PeIiisy
vanian:
..This morning Mr. Welsh, from the select committee
appointed by the the bred Scott decision, made
an able and eloquent minority report This report Is
signed BY Messrs Welsh and Walton the only democrats
upon the committee and after being read was ordered
10 be printed in the record send YOU hasty-pEe-
pared synopsis Of the document and sorry that time
will not permit to extend this notice The document
should be published entire in every democratic paper in
the land. After preliminary remarks, the report
continues follows:
sWe cannot but express deep regret that hostile
attitude has been assumed toward the recent action OF the
Supreme Court Of the United States Whatever diner
OF opinion may exist in reference TO that decision
should receive the respect and sanction OF all awabdn
citizens until the same breath that gave it existence shall
pronounce its principles and its doctrines I'M
tenabe To repudiate ito say that it Is imperative
as awand 10 proclaim its authors dictatoriai ran
nica and unworthy OF confidence and respect cannot
but be regarded startling propositions in the candid es
timaton all who view that court the great oonser
alive element in government and the constitutional
protector Of the rights and liberties of the people.
Ater dwelling further upon this point, the report
next refers TO the propriety of State Legislature at
tempting to review the action of the Supreme Court OF
the United States and declare that III must be patent TO
every one that such is entirely futile and with
out any possible effect This position is ably argued
and cannot fail To shake the convictions of those whose
preudices have forced them into absurd position,
The next point dwelt upon is, that lit Is clear and
conclusive that designed TO be government Of
white men 1t was intended by its founders that any
other class should be permitted to control its
desnie The report is eloquent while referring to the
past history of the country and the evils which depar
ture from the principle stated above would entail upon
our national future and says that ito protect ourselves
and posterty from such alarming results, we must
carefully guard against the which certainly would
produce them.
This can only be done by plcng barrier wide and
impossible, between the two now IN conflict and
such hold to be the true merit OF the recent decision
Of the court which, in its future application and develop
ment win amply shield from the dangers to which
have adverted However much may regret the unfor
tunae condition of the coored race cannot in our
examination of question aught with much interest,
lose sight Of the great truth that elfpeseryaton the
first law Of Mature
1.-The report concludes with the following eloquent
paragraph:
The minority of your committee have no fears that
the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United
States viii be sustained and upheld by the calm good
the American people In the outburst Of defeat
against by the party whose hopes destroys and whose
principles it Oyerwhelms But in the future in the
past the great Of the people viii be true to it.
they have ever been TO the Union and the constitution
And If ever the broken fragments of constitutional liberty
strew pathway il viii be in that fatal hour when the
strength and binding force Of the judiciary shall be for
ever lost ON the reasonable resistance of degenerate lac
tons. -