Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1858-07-16

bar of the Supreme Court Of the United
States, by virtue of his position as ex-At-
torney General of the United States, by
virtue of his position as a compeer OF the
honorable Senator, and his former col
league on this floor from the State OF Mary
land, Mr.. Beverly johnson. That gen
tleman volunteered in the case as 40nasch8
curi9. because the whole section of the
county to whose interesSase had been de-
voted from his birth had an interest in this
great question to be decided, and which,
at the time Of his volunteering in the case,s
he did not yet know to be represented by
counsel. The Hon. Mr.. Geyer, of Mis-
souri,, afterwards entered his name Of re-.
cord, and appeared for the defendant.
Saws the Senator from New York:
ssThe opposing counsel, paid by the defend
ing STAKEHOLDER, had insisted, in reply, that that
famous statute was unconstitutional. The mock
debate had been heard in the chamber of the
court in the basement of the Capitol, in the
presence Of the curious visitors at the seat Of
Government, whom the dullness of a judicial
investigation could not disgust. The court did
not hesitate to please the incoming President
Where are we, sir, that such language
as this is used? Is this the Senate Of the
United States, and are we here the en-
bassadors Of coequal sovereignties, to be
insulted by language like this? Is not
this an insult to every one of Us, direct
and personal!
g The court did not hesitate to please tie ia
coming President by selzing this extraneous and
idle forensic discussion, and converting it into
an occasion for pronouncng opinion that the
Missouri prohibition was void, and that, by
force of the Constitution, slavery existed wish
all the elements of property in man over man,
in all the Territories Of the United States. para
mount to any popular. sovereignty within the
Territories, and even to the authority Of Con-
gress itself.
s:The day Of inauguration came-the first one
among all the celebrations of that great nation
al pageant that was to be desecrated by a Goa
lition between the executive and judicial de-
partments, to undermine the National Legisla-
ture and the liberties Of the people.
Is thcre solitary word Of truth in this?
Not one Is their solitary fact allcdged?
! Not one; but broad and naked charge
is made, which is intended to stamp infa-
my upon characters hitherto beyond tIle
breath of rcproach. Shame, shame upon
! the Senator that makes such charges as
these, and I3zEasFf-IaHs1sa<o sF'faT'tffal
The President, attended by the usual length
ened procession, arrived and took bis seat on
the portico. Fhe Supreme Court attended
him there, in robes which yet cSacted public
reverence. The people, unaware Of the inn
port Of the whsperings carried on between the
President and the Chief Justice and imbued
with veneraton for both, filled the avenues and
| gardens far away as the eye could reach. The
! President addressed them in words bland as
| those which the worst of all the Roman En-
perors pronounced when he assumed the pur-
pie. lie announced (vaguely, indeed, but with
exposition of the Constitution, and pledged his
submission to it as authorltve and final
Does anybody find that in the Presi-
dents inaugural? Does anybody find in
the Presidents inaugural anything on this
point, except that he learns the question
TO be decided by the highest tribunal IL
the land, and that he, as evory other good
citizen is, is willing to render obedience
to that tribunal?
GA few days later, copies of this opinion
were multiplied by the Senate's press, ane
scattered, in the of the Senate, broadcas
over the land, and their publication has no
yet been disowned by the Senate"
AS if we were going to .disoeop publish
ing the opinions Of the Supreme Court 0
the United States.
Simultaneously, Drcd Scott, who had play
the hand Of dummy in this interesting politcsl
game, unwittingIy, yet to the complete, satis
faction ofhs adversary, was voluntarily oman
cipated; and thus received from his master, a
a reward, the freedom which the court had de
MED him as right
Now does not the Senator from New
York know, was it not published in ever,
newspaper in the country, that the slave
master had died Was it not known tia
the man who had emaneipated the slav
was a Black Republican compeer, in tn
other house, of the Senator Of New York
Mr.. Chaffee of Massachusetts, who wa
forced to give this emancipation after hay
ing long hesitated, by the indignant dc
) nunciations of the fellow-Republicans 8
round hlms Everybody knows that, an
yet we are told by the Senator that till
gift Of freedom to the slave was. the as
! aeord granted by his master, the defendan
! for playing the hand of dummy in a gam
of cards-a political ganle-with the veI
. erable Chief Justice and Chief Maglstrat
: of the Union. Shame, shame, once more
) upon the Senator who makes charges lfk
these, without the shadow Of ground e
their support.
H5ase and Douglas.