The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-09-19
For the JOURNAL.
The Democratic Dodge.

Mr.. ED1roR.-I showed in my las
that the Supreme Court did not only say
that an African 'had no rights which the
white man was bound to respect" but
the Court so adJudged in their decision.
Under this decision n Negro cannot
maintain a suit in either state or a
federal court; "and that he may be Justly
and lawfully reduced to Slavery fer his
benefit" SEQ page Is of the bred
Scott Case. Democratic papers and or
ators very meekly tell US that the only
point decided by the court was, ''that tho
Circuit Court had not jurisdiction of the
case" But this is rs false as their creed.
This is the sixth point made and decided
By the Court. l will now state the
points ssrtatim az made and decided by
tho Court.
LIST. That the Circuit Court erred in
sustaining SCOTS demurrer to Sandfords
plea in abatement.
2nd. That Scott was slave, because
his ancestors had been torn from Africa
aud sold as slaves.
3nd. That Scott was not n citizen of
the state of Missouri, nor of the United
States, and never could bcceme citizen
Of either so as to briRg suit in FEEDER
al Court.
4th. That the fact of Il master carry
ing his slave into n free State where
slavery was prohibited and becoming a
resident, or remaining there an indef-
mite length of time, and again removing
tina negro to a slave state did not con-
fer freedom on the negro so as to entitle
him to maintain suit in the slave state
for bis freedom.
This decision everrules all the decis
ions made in the slave states up to the
date of this decision, except that of Scott
We. Emmorson in Missouri. 1t is con-
trary to the known universal! rules of
law in all nations, and is purely polt-
cal decision.
5lh. That Negro is nota man, but
''mere chattel." This is Sound De-
mocracy.
9th. That as the Supreme Court of
the State of Missouri had decided that
Scott was Slave and could not sue in
the Courts of that state, that that Judge
ment was binding on the U. S. Supreme
Cour! as to the status of Scott, and fur
Their that he could not sue in either
Court.
7th. That the Circuit Court had no
jurisdiction of the case, and ergo, that
the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction
this is in favor of freedom,-but did have
in favor of Slavery. rLis is manifest
for this reason, as soon as tie Court de-
termined TO dismiss the case for Want of
jurisdiction that certainly disposed of the
case so far as bred Scott was concerned
and sealed bis fate forever; but the Court
and the Democratic party was not salts
fed; and the Court then further claimed
jurisdiction purpose of adjudging that the
''Negro had no rights which the white
man was bound to respect" and to de-
eide everything else that the partisan
Court imagined could be used to strength
en- and give life to the almost defuuct
Democratic party. This was the real OBJ
ject of the Court, Administration and
politicians in that decision.
9th. That the provision of the Consti-
tuition, which gave Congress the power
to dispose ofand make all needful rules
and regulations respecting the territory
or other property belonging to the Uni
ted States" "applied only to the proper
fy which the States held in common at
that time, and has no reference whatever
to any territory or other property which
the new sovereignty might afterwards it
self acquire" This is the shallowest
pettifogging we ever heard Of, but the
Court was obliged to decide this point in
this manner, in order to establish firmly
the Democratic doctrine that Congress;
has no authority to exclude slavery from
the territories of the United States.