The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-03-12
VOL. 7, NO. A.-WHOLE NO. 80



Al the civic celebration in New York, on the
2sd, the historian Bancroft MAS the orator Of the
day. The following extract from his eIoouens
speech, in which he holds up the = Drsd Sc,xs
decision to the scorn OF mankind, ssroos s,a
Iust As il is. but family symboli,es the infsuy
With which thai detestabls decision will % view.
ed by the future historian:
But a, last we have fallen on evil dsys.r
The propitous smiles of Heaven such are
'ne "orus Oh "ashington-"ca never be .ex.
pected on nation that disregxrds the eternal
rules of order and right" Daring eleven yrere
oi perverse government those rules were diere-
gsrded, and II came TO pass that meu Who should
hrmly avow the sentiments OF Washington and
Jefferson and Franklin and Chancellor Living.
ston was distranchised for the public service
that the spotless Chiet Justice whom W sshjne.
ton placed at the bead Of our Supreme Court
could BY no possibility have been nominated ior
that Office, or confirmed. Nay, the corrupt IN.
tnence invaded even the very home of Justice.
The fnsl decree Of the Supreme Caurt. in its
decision on particular case, must be accepted.
and the present Chief Justice has on ooe mem.
oiabie appeal seconp panied his decision With an
lmcassioned declaration, wherein with profound
immortality which DO one has as yet fully laid
as shrew 10 be tanned hv an open scorn Of the
n-.'. VI history, win a dresry industry collecting
evidences oil cases whers justice NAV have alum.
oefed or weakness been oppressed, compeusa.
ing Tor want OF evidence by confidence of a.
seruon, with partialit, that would have aia-
grsced an advocate neglscting human- decisions
OF Colonial Courts and the enduring memorials
OF colonial statute books, in his party zesi 10
prove that the Fathers Of our Country held the
negro 10 have "no rights which the white man
was bound 10 respect" he has no. only denied
the rights OF man and the liberties Of mankind
out he has LETT a tooshold for the liberty of the
white man TO rest upon. That ilts,arred disaui.
si'lon OF Taney, who, trust, did not intend TO
hang out the hsg o! Disuniou, is the fountain
head OF tins rebellion that offences 10 the con.
scious memory Of the millions convulsed our
country with the excitement which swept over
those of us who vaihly hoped to preserve a
strong and sufficient though narrow is,hmus that
might stand between the conflicting food. No
nation can adopt that Judgment as It's rule and
ve; the Judgment has ia IL TO element OF political
vitality will not say il is an invention of the
desd past; there never was a past that accepted
such vpiuions. fr ,,Ir vp,n,v..s ..s.s.-
cd III the dass y han amr Car,stisn.ian was framed
We ~.li not take them second hand from the
Chief Justice, ws wil let the men ot that day
"A
can magistrate sink when arIaigBed a. be will
be, before the tribunal of humanity; how terri.
bile will be the verdict against him. when he 10
put In comparison with Washington's political
teacher, the great Montesquisu, the enlightened
magistrate OF France, in what he esteemed the
worst days Of her monarchy The argument,
iron the difference of race which Taney thrusts
forward with passionate confidence, as Q proof
OF complete disqualification, is brought forward
by Montesquieu as a scathing satire on all the
brood OF despots who were supposed to uphold
Slavery a. tolerable in itself The rights Of
mankind, that precious word which had no equiv
alent in the language Of Hindostan, or Judea, or
Greecs, or Rome, or any an,i.Christan tongue,
found its supporter in Washington, and Hsmil.
ton; in Franklin and Livingston in Otis, Geo.
Mason, and Gadsden; Ia all the greatest men Of
our early history. The one rule from which the
makers of our first confederacy and then of oar
national Constitution never swerved. il tLis; 70
6Y aa~ssisnt;a--i i;srn. --.y 800 '
Yhatevar ynirh- c.s.,S - ~ r -. -
from opinion, ancestry, weakness OF mind, info
riority, or Inconvenience of any kind, vas itself
not formed into permanent disiIanchisement.
The Constitution Of the United States was made
under the recognized influence of "the eternal
rule Of order and right" so that as far as its u-
risdiction extended, it raised at once the numer-
Gus class who had been chattels into the co0di.
ton Of persons it neither originates nor per-
petustes inequality.