Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-11-12

"A BLACK "hepubliean" Supreme Court Sus,,
the bred Scott Decision. i"ing
A few weeks SINCE says the New Yorl, Noru -,
steamer was lying at the wharf at Detroit o TTnlle
man stepped up to the captains office and vortS
purchase ticket which woId entite him to noal 70
in the cabin The clerk of the boat refused TO sell
such ticket lie was offered deck passenger ti ilIl
and told that by the regulations of the b0ot
were not permitted to take passage in the cabr
Negroes name is William Fl. Day, who brouobt me
against the owners of the boat for DAMAGES in suit
uniting him to enjoy passage with white persons RTr
Circuit Court denied the validity of Day's claim ine
he was induced by the Black Republicans and , TLa
onists to remove the case to the Supreme Cont ~ M
State, which court deliberately affirmed the indoo+
the court below with the necessary costs oieiN oi
The Detroit Free Press in COMMENTING roon a..
case, concludes with the following pertinent and oS
tune remarks: PPol-
When the Supreme Court of the United State. .
the famous of bred Scott pronounced the onn;n
that negroes not citizens of the United States
der the Federal Constitution and laws we have J
tnct recollection that the whole Black Republican moe
from the eastern boundaries of Mexico to the wpson
boundaries of Illinois and Ohio, was horrorstmck onJ
overwhelmed with the most virtuous indignation ~
declared the decision to be barbara and the yocab
larry must have been searched for epithets suited to m
hurled at the tribunal which had laid down such mon
stroCs doctrine as law and up to this day. every Coco
sion has been seized by this Black Republican nroS va
by the Black Republican orators in Congress and ont
to assai the decls OF the Supreme Court of the n
States, and to bring it into popular disrepute.
We shall await with some interest and curiosity tbe
treatment which the Black Republican press and tbo
Black Republican orators will deal out to this d;;o n
of the Supreme Court of the State of Micbicsn bo
cause ifthe decision in the bred Scott case was harh
rous the decision in the William H. Dav case is nto
y barbarous if the doctrine laid down as law in b
one monstrous, that laid down as law in the
other case is odious and scandalous. The Supreme
Court of the United States simply passed upon the no
status according n tIn ~
stitution and laws the Supreme Court of the State Of
Michigan has passed upon his social status The one
court decided that the negro by the law did not stand
upon political equality with the whites; the other
court has decided that if not by the statute law by the
law OF custom, he does not stand upon social equality
with the whites The one court decided that he is DO
htcay an inferior being the other that he is morally
an inferior being. The one excluded him from the Fed
era courts the other excludes him from steamboat cab
ms and rstcass railroad cars. The one dealt with him
with respect to citizenship only the other deals with
him with respect to his manhood. If the degraded
him part and parcel of the body polite the other has
abused him, and tainted him, and shamed him as part
and parcel of the social fabric.
Let it not be supposed for moment that we condemn
this decision of the Supreme Court of the State of Mich
igan. We do not We shall sustain it, as we have sus
tanned the decision Of the Supreme Court Of the United
States. Both In our Judgment are cmincntly right
Neither court could make any other decision Or the
Supreme Court of this State had made any other decs
ION, they would have merted the dersOn and contempt
of the whole country. The fact which we wish to bring
prominently out in this whole connection is that the
Supreme Court Of the State of Michigan is composed of
four gentlemen Of the Black Republican party elected
by that party and that they have been compelled when
this question of nggers came before them to determine
1t upon common principles, and in cOntravenOn
Of the proessed principles of the Black Republican par
y They have been compelled to determine it in
dance with the principles Of the Democratic party and
OF the bred Scott decision itself They have been COM
PEELED to acknowledge, and to write it upon their endu-
ring record that the negro IS an inferior being though
in so doing they have kicked away the platform upon
which they sought and walked into office They have
been compelled to 60 father than the bred Scott decis
ion went They have been compelled to pass upon the
negro as social being and to pronounce him degraded
They have been compelled to pronounce their poit
ical party hypocriticaI, dishonest and foul.
We think the bred Scott decision will stand in Mich
igan hereafter, since Black Republican Supreme
Court have Endorsed it, and sustained it, and gone be-
yond it.