The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-08-19
Western Republicans and the bred
scott Decision.


From The Boston Post. Aug 5.
AS ! understand it," said Frank Blair
in his st. Joseph speech. 1.-The bred Scott
decision is the stand point Of Democracy on
slavery" and he went on to controvert this
decision, and hold il up 10 the views Of JET
lerson and jackson. lie tries to make il
out that the Democrats OF tn old school
went for power in Congress to legislate on
slavery in the Territories directly contrary
to their opinions and their acts Blair how
ever, is shady on the negro point, per sc. o.
the opinion and decision.
Blair claims n sovereign power in Con-
gress TO keep the Territories " for free wh,e
men > he would keep out the negro race
and SO firm is he in the belief that the pres
ence OF this race in the social system is bar
to progress, that he AYERS g one negro rs
more N The rdy ola Idirodd than three noun
iaon.' Now the question is VIVA, can
Blair's Objection be- TO the negro point OF
the bred Scott decision? Let it be remem-
bered that bis speech is "A sort OF representa-
tive specch-it! represents the views taken
OF the negro by such Republican States as
Iowa, Wisconsin, and others at the West,
and in Kansas. An of them regard and
treat the negroes as an inferior race, TO
whom political rights are TO be granted or
withheld at the pleasure Of the dominant
race and acting on such view, some OF
them exclude the negro entirely from their
llmlts-wblle others, like Kansas, permit
ting their residence refuse TO them suffrage,
and Tina hall fhatp Al uui,act
it is almost sel'-cvident, that 10 these local..
ties, so Overwhelmingly Republican, where
the exclusion policy prevails, the objections
TO the bred Scott decision on the negro
point mus, really be the antipodes OF the
objections alleged in Massachusetts. Here
1t is termed by the anti slavery agita,ors,
barbarous and 50 On-because, as it i. false.
W alleged, it decides that the negro has no
rights which white men are bourd to re.
spect; or, to use the words of the last Bos-
ton Fourth Of July Grafton, which is pro.
nounccd so deep by the Republican press,
because it decides that the negro has no
" natural rights What political rights
are lett the negro by the Blair school of Re.
pubcans, who would Danish him from the
States and shut him out of the Territories ,
Pray, do Republican Kansas, Iowa. Wis
cousin, &c, in their exclusion policy, treat
the negro US though he had rights which
white men were bound to respect!
We submit the Western. Black Rcpubli.
cans must object to the bred Scott decision
on the ground that i, does not 90 far enough
IN as point aga'nd the negro They must
object TO this decision
l. On the score that il does not meet The
question oi rae This fact is stated re.
peatedly all through the Opinion, which OK.
pressly says, that the Court must be under
stood rs speaking only OF Africans and their
descendants imported and sod as adreS and
again; that 3" the brodd question Of the An
CdH race was NOT before the Court There
can be no mistake in this point only 10y those
who mean TO mistake the Court The
phrase that has been most often twisted so
AS to bring the opinion into the broad ques-
ton OF race, is an historical Judgment upon
facts simply adduced-,he words of the
opinion" Tor the purpose OF showing the
fixed opinions concerning the race upon
which statesmen had acted. This Judgment
is thus expressed They had the Afri-
can" FOR more than a century before been
regarded rs beings OF au Interior order. and
altogether unfit 10 associate with the white
race. either in social or political relations ;
and - far inferior, that thCg had no rlrbis
rhich tie rbre man ,ras bound 10 respect -
But this statement as TO century old opln
ions, by the Supreme Court. surely does not
come up To the breadth of the present race
question, as Just decided in the Kansas Con.
stitu'ional Convention, largely Republican
This body acted as Ia the negro race Now,
Just Is other Western Republican States
have acted. II the Supreme Court bad De
cided that n negro was q nuisance that one
negro, Tor instance, was more Of bar 10
such necessary improvements a. railroad,
than three mountains, II would have come
up to the Western Black Republican stand
ard
>. The Western Black Republicans must
object TO the bred Scott opinion on the
ground Tat il contains admissions, as 10 the
rights OF negroes, tha, are unsafe aud detri-
mental 10 the public veal. For this opinion
leaves. for instance. 20 the negroes OF Massa.
ehuse,ts the very political power Of voting
aud being voted tor, which tbs Black Re-
publicans Of Kansas and Iowa, and other
places, consider as dangerous The opinion
fatty say that the States may give the
right TO vote to negroes and mua,,os, and
i, as fatty says tina, this decision does 20,
atscc, this whole class Of rights in the States.
Yea more, This Dred SCOT, opinion actually
admits negroes into the Courts q TIE tnl'oi
Naie This Is the language Of the Sd
prone Cour, We are by Do means pre-
pared 10 "a! there arr not many cases, ciyil
As veil as criminal. IN shich Circuit Coar,
OF the uul,ei states may exercise Jari-iie-
tlou. although cite o the fri0a rars - a
plrfg" IL BOT thai A. plain as Q turnpike