The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-08-21
TIPTON CEDAR Co. IOWA--SA ATURA ADY, AUG 2L 1858

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some little Improvement of Jour great
hsrbcry. Nos dollar could os CHAINED
| for such purpose.
New what did sh PARTY design b. the
policy iusugura.ed In 1852 i have
shown You how they hare gone on step
| by step, advancing irst one opinion thea
another aud then another, unsil they
!; hare got slavery into Kansas; denying
irst the power OF Congress TO exclude 1t,
then denying the power Of the people Of
| ! Territory, while in Territorial condi-
tioo, to exclude il. Next, they will de
ny the power of the people when they
/ form State Constitution 70 exclude It.,
and that such is the next step TO be Ia
ken il manifest from the Dred Scott deei-
sion.
wish, fellow citizens, to get before
ron, If l can, clear idea Of that Dred
Scott decision, and waa. it decided In
/ that case. The care was this: A man By
the name Of Dred Scott brought a suit
for bis freedom in the United States
| Court in Missouri, On the grouad that
| be had been taken by lis master to Rock
Island. In this State, and there held for
some time; and afserward taken to Fort
Smelling, Minnesota, which was then q
Territory, and part Of the Louisiana,
purchase which from slavery sas excGied
by the Missouri Com promise; and be insis-
ted that BY virtue OF the laws Of Illinois,
and the laws OF the Territory in which
he was at Fort Smelling, he was free
man. The defence SET up this plea
That Dred Scott was a negro, aeeeudel
from parents who were imported from
Africa and held as slayes, and beiug
such negro, he had no authority 10 sue in
the United States courts, ani therefore
the Court had no jurisdiction over the
case Now the defendant didn't set up
ths. Dred Seott was a slave, miad y2u.
He said he was niger descended tom
slaye parents
4 Voice.-Tha.'s a niger up there,
too
Mr. Trumbull-I presume the person
that made that remark belongs to the Al
rican Democracy, and is in the habit of
calling out " Niger" to erybody else,
while he is hu.ging a niger under each
arm. Great cheers and laughter.) !
have heard of just such men before, and
they are in she habit of calling out
Wooly Head " Abolisionixt, . Mig
ger'-sueh epi.hets being the ouly ar
gunents they have. Now, l want to ex-
pose that man.
Another Noiee-He's not a lEan-,et
him be-
Mr.. TrumbuIl---I want to hold him ID
before this audience, and in doing 50
viii expose Numerous class EAe him.
He IS one Of your Douglas men | take
it. will hold him zp here aud let you
see him with the wooiy heads around
him. will expose him Ia all his naked
ness. This Is just as good place to ex-
pose the hypocrisy Of iass class of men
as anywhere. See If do not state aim
fairly. He is one of these who believe
in the Dred Scott doctrine-ihe right to
take slaves into territory, and cries cut
at the same time. Popular sorer-
eighty" (Cheers and laughter.) He
goes down into Mississippi AID North
Carolina, where &c owns quantity of he
yroes aud marches up TO Kansas. Ieis
gcing to elnigrate there and some Of his
negroes are ss black ss the African, with
aat noses, thick lips and woody heads.
and some are little whittier laughter
and some are mu!attoes, and some o.
them arc SO white that you can hsrd-
ly distinguish the negro blooa In them
(laughterl. Well, be marches ap to
Kansas, aud when lie gets up to the
line the free white men Of Kansas meet
him there and say, I'VE do nos want yaa
to bring those niggers here--xe don't
want that population here in Kansas. aud
have resolved il shall not come here. -
But be answers, 9. am for popular soy.
ereignty, and the Dred Scott decision.
aud viii introduce my negroes. and yuu
are woody heads flaughser). You are
abolitioaists, you are negro sorshippeFs.
And here he has bis whole drove of ne.
groes of all sorts Of blood asouud hiIa,
aud calls free white men who vans moth
ing to do with negroes woody heads
Pretty subject to talk about amsIranla-
ion with his breeds Of negroes Will eve.
r. kind of blood in their veins lauehter4
He wants to introduce theal In amo,,r
free white men, and they say they will
have none Of his negroes. Talk about
popular sovereignty and negro worship
pcrs. when every free white man In
Kansas stands on the border, aud SAYS
you cannot come ia here With your ne
groes. You shout "sanatter soyer-
eighty and under Dred Scottish | viii
bring them in laughter). That is tha
position your class of men occupy. /
have done with you, sir, and viii now
turn to the Dsed Scott decision fvoc.-
ferrous appiause).
That is the kind of argument that our
opponents have He's used up1. | was
about to explain to you what the plea set
up was. What did the Supreme Cour,
decide, They decided that person of
theoharaeter described in the plea had no
authority to bring suit in the United
States Court, aud they dismissed the
case for waut Of jurisdiction stating that
the Court had no authority to enter any
Iadgemcntiu the ease because negro had
no right TO sue 10 that court. Now, was
not that the end Of the case II ought TO
have been the end Of it, but for political
reasons the judges 20 on and give their
opinions separately upon the authority
Of Congress to exclude slavery from the
countTy in which Fort Smelling was loca.
ted, which was unnecessary to the deci-
sion, The result of the case did not de-
tersnine whether Dred Scott was slave