The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-28

ara ASSOCIATION reports that l ,462 cases have
been treated under lis supervision.
Some men are born great; others achieve
greatness; others have greatness thrust upon
them. 10 this latter class we must assign bred
scott, whose death has been announced BY tele
graph, aAd whose name, for two years past, has
resounded from one end of the Union to the
other, and Is at this moment SO often repeated
| in the great electioneering canvass now going
on in Illinois. So far from having been born
great, bred Scott was born a negro slave; and
not only that, but he was born in Virginia.
This fact not only settled the question in the
negative as to his being born great, it also
placed an invincible obstacle, whatever might
have been bis natural talents and endowments,
IN the way of his achieving greatness. There
are countries in which even a negro slave stands
chance to rise to social eminence and position.
aud to make for himself both name and fame.
But here, IN these Democratic United States to
ne born negro slave is to be cut off from all
possible chances OF that sort. The only chance
therefore, for bred Scott was to have greatness
thrust upon him-a business undertaken by the
Supreme Court OF Missouri, and carried to the
point OF perfect success by the Supreme Court
If the United States. Had the Supreme Court
Of Missouri followed the opinion Of its own
Chief Justice, aud by far the ablest as well as
he most honest man on its bench, by confirm
ing the judgment of the Circuit Cour. of St.
Louis, by which he was declared freeman, the
world never would have heard Of bred Scott
lie would have died no les. obscurely freeman
than he had lived obscurely slave. 1t was the
supreme Court of Missouri which, by insisting
upon keeping him slave, first brought him
iato public notice. But the Supreme Court of
the United States made him famous, and they
took particular pains TO do SO. They began
with kicking him out of their presence, on the
ground that being q negro born in the United
States he could not sue in their court. Had he
been an alien, although negro, he might have
been heard, but being q negro born in the
United States, he had no right to appeal to
them if indeed to any body else for Justice
Had the court stopped here, bred Scott might
perhaps have been talked OF for day. But
the Court we're resolved to secure him more
enduring renown. So, having kicked him out
OF court as having no right to be heard, they
proceeded nevertheless, to decide his case, not
for the purpose Of keeping him slave, for their
refusal to hear him would have accomplished
that, but for the purpose of setting aside the
Missouri Compromise, opening all the Terrific
ries Of the United States to Slavery, and pro-
nouncing the incapacity Of Congress or any
body else to prevent Slavery from being planted
in any Territory of the United States, present
or future, into which any STAKEHOLDER or COM
bination Of saveholaers might choose to carry
it. From this moment the name Of bred Scott
became household word in our politics, and
50 it will remain as long as the contest between
Slaveholding and Free Labor shall continue
In fact, it will be mainly by having associated
their names with that of this humble negro aud
by having attempted to strike through him
blow at Free Labor, that the Judges who pro-
nounced this decision will find place in his,o-
ry.--New York Tribune.