Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-09-02
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rpE DRIED sooT-r DECISION.


you how they have gone on step by stsp,
advancing first one opinion then another
and then another, until they have got
slavery into Kansas; denying the power OF
Congress to exclude, then denying the pow
er of the people of Territory. while III a
Territorial condition, to exclude it. Next,
they will deny the power of the people
when they form State Constitution to ex-
clude it, and that such is the next step to
be taken is manifest from the Died Scott
decision.
l wish, fellow citizens, to get before you,
if can, a clear idea of that Dred Scott de-
cision, and what is decided in that CASE
The case was this: a man by the name of
Dred Scott brought a suit for his freedom
In the United States Court in Missouri, on
the ground that he had been taken by his
master to Rock Island, in this State, and
there held for some time; and after
ward taken to Fort Smelling, Minneso-
ta, which was then Territory, and part
of the Louisiana purchase, from which
slavery was excluded by the Missouri Com
promise; and he insisted by virtue of the
laws of Illinois, and the laws of the Terri
tory in which he was at Fort Smelling, he
was a free man. The defence set up this
plea: That bred Scott was a negro, de-
scended from parents who were imported
from Africa and hell as slaves, AMI being
such negro, he had no authority to sue in
the United States courts, and therefore the
Court had no jurisdiction over the case
Now the defendant didn't set up that Dred
Scott was a slave, mind you. He said he
was a negro descended from slave parents
y NoIcE.-That's negro up there. too.
MR. TRuMSULL.-I presume the person
that made that remark belongs to the At
rican Democracy, and is in the habit OF call
ing out Niger" to everybody else, while
he is hugging a niger under each arm
[Great cheers and laughter l have heard
of Just such men before, and they are in the
habit of calling out "W DOLLY Head, ''..Ab-
oli;ionist, Niger such epithets being
the only arguments they have. Now, l
want to expose that man.
ANOTHER YoicE.-lIe'S not man-let
him be.
Mn. TRUMprIL--I want to hold him up
before this audience, and in doing so will
expose numerous class like him. He is
one Of your Douglas men | take it. l will
him mp here and let you see him with the
woolly heads around him. / will expose
him in AL his nakeslness This is just as
good place to expose the hypocrisy of
that class Of men as anywhere. See if | do
not state him fairly. He is one of those
who believe in the Drcd Scott doctrine
the right to take slaves into territory, and
cries out at the same time, Popular Sow
ereignty." Checrs and laughter He
goes down into Mississippi and North Car
oiina, where he owns quantity Of negroes
and marches up to Kansas. He is going
to emigrate there and some Of his negroes
are as black as the African, with fiat noses,
thick lips and woolly heads, and some are
a little winter daughter and some are ,nu-
lattoes, and some of them are so white You
can hardly distinguish the negro blood in
them (iaughter.) Well he marches up to
Kansas. end when he gets up to the line the
free white men of Kansas meet him there
and say. .'we don't want that population
here in Kansas. and have rcsol7ed i. shall
not come here" But he answers, al am
for popular sovereignty, and the Dred Scott
decision. and / will introduce my negroes,
and you are woolly heads (laughter) You
are-an abolitionlst, You are negro worship
pers" And here he has his whole drove OF
negroes of all sorts of blood around him,
and calls free white men who don't want
anything to do withnegroes. woolly aeads.
Pretty subject to talk about amalgamation
with his breeds Of negroes with every kind
of blood m their veins (laughter). He
wants to introduce them in amongst free
white men, and they say they will have
none of his negroes. Talk about popular
sovereignty and negro worshippers when
every free white man in Kansas stands on
the border, and says you cannot come in
here with your negroes. You shout "pop-
ular sovereignty, "squatter sovereignty %
and under Drcd Scottish | will bring them
in (laughter). That is the position your
class of men occupy. | have done with
you, sir, and will now turn to the Dred
Scott Decision (vociferous applause)
That is the kind of argument that onl
opponents have He's used up]. 1 was a
bout to explain to you what the plea set
up was. What did the Supreme Court de-
eide? They decided that person of the
character described in the plea had no au-
thority to bring suit in the United States
Court and they dismissed the case for want
of jurisdiction, stating that the Court had
no authority to enter any Judgment in the
case because negro had no right to sue
in that ccurt Now, was not that the end
of the case. 1t ought to have been the
end Of it but for political reasons the judges
so on and give their opinions separately
upon the authority of Congress to exclude
slavery from the country in which Fort
Smelling was located, which was unneces-
sary to the decision. The result of the
case did not determine whether Drcd Scott
was slave or a free man, and the question
OF the authority of Congress to pass the
law excluding slavery from the territory
north Of SO deg. 80 min. was not involved;
because If the negro could have derived his
freedom from being in region of country
where slavery was prohibited by law, he
had it by residing at Rock Island. The
State of Illinois had abolished slavery, and
If the fact Of his having been brought with
in free jurisdiction gave him freedom, he
bad it by residing in this State. But the
Judges, for political purposes, go on aud
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