New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07
FROM WARRINGTON.
The bred Scott Decision Buried in the
supreme Court-A Negro Lawyer Id
mittcd by Chief Justice Chase.
From Our Special Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, Feb !, 1880.
Oh. aucustly simple funeral cortege-oh, dead,
yrapped in the ccrements that the divine hand Of reyo
LUTON folds ITS victims WITH augusty exciting in your
stormy birth transccudently mischevous In your little
lif-Senator Charles Sumner and Negro lawyer John :
Rock the pail bearers-the of the Supreme Court
Of the United States the Poters Fiedthe corpse the
bred Scott decision
Through the door that too narrow TO freely let
out the bearers that bore Charles Sumicrs inanmate
form from tie Senate chamber, where he had been
stricken down by the assassns OF the Slave power
Charles Sumner to-day marched back, leading negro
by the hand and standing upon the very spot that had
been stained with his blood for demanding freedom and
equality for the blacks in America, demanded OF The
Supreme Court Of the United States to enroll among lis
members an African lawyer and TO license him to pEac
tice ut its Tar.
The Black man was admitted. Jet black, with hair
Of an extra twst-lci have the pleasure Of saying
by purpose aud with generalization, OF an aggraFas
"kink"-unqualihedly. obtrusively detantly Niger
with no palliaton Of complexion. no let down IN up
no compromise In nose, no abatement whatever Ia any
facial crania osieologc aUartcnar, nom The de'pl'cd
standard OF humanity bIutaly set up IN our Politics
and in our Judcaory by tie Drcd scott decision thiH
nly hued African stood in the monarohieal power OIL
recognized American Manhood and American Cii1en-
shin within the bar OF the Court which had solomnly
pronounced that Black men had no rights which white
men were bound TO respect, stood there recognized
member Of it, professionally the brother Of the df.
tingu!sLei oounscors a. long rolls, 10 rights thor
equal in the standing which rank gives their peer.
BY Jupiter the sight was grand
Twas dramatic too At three minutes before II
O'Clock in the morninr. Charles Sumner entered the
i. H.. .Nl.a.H F.V sffI4IaN "a
and So, down withm the bar st eleven the procession
Of roSn,d judges entered the room with Chief
Justice Chase o.. ;hcir head. The spectators md the
LAWYERS in attendance rofc respectfully their coming
The A.sociatrJustices seated themselves nearly Mt
opce a. A. their courteous custom Of waiting upon each
oticr movements The ChcfJustice standing 10 the
last bowed win aaaolc dignity TO the Bar, and took
h', central seat with great presence. Immediately
tho senator from Massachusetts, arose. and in composed
manner and quiet said: May 1t please the Court.
move that John :. Rock. a member ,of the supreme
Court Of the State Of Massachusetts,, be admitted to
practice as a member Of tls Court"
The grave TO bury the bred Scott decision was in
that one dug, and it yawned there wide open
under the very eyes Of of the judges who had par
icipated in the juridca crime againt Democracy and
humanity The asserting nod Of the great head oil the
tumbled in tie corse and filled up the pit
and the black counselor of the Supreme Court got on TO
ii and stamped il down. and smoothed the earth to his
walk TO the rolls of the Court.
Boutwell, Of Massachusetts was by. drinking IN The
spectacle with his blazing eyes, and Wilson Of Iowa
stood at his side measuring the big fact and welcoming
it. A New York representative who yesterday voted
against the Constitutional amendment to abolish Slavery
carried his abdomen with obtrusyc vanity about the
bar and giggcd at a spectacle which he had not the
sense 10 appreciate nor the heart to feel. few law
yers of the old regime locked on stunned somewhat,
but rapidly growing in wisdom and mixing Difference
10 destiny with their instructive reluctance to this revo
utonary intrusion These and three journalists and two
sight seers struggled in from their weary diversion TO
the tawdry ornamentetiOn Of the Capitol Wing,
and Middleton the Clerk Of the Court, especially up
pointed by TaneyS urgency and vote these wero all the
spectators of the noteworthy Sefposscsson AID
the insecurity Of his of his valuable place, con-
strained the semi Secesn clerk propriey Of manner.
while swearing in the frs. negro lawyer upon tho rolls
in his custody His face, however. was set hard and
his soul evidently ongcd for the resurrection OF his old
Chief Taney and the palmy slave driving days Of the
Attorney G. enerashp Of Black But they all gone,
and the revolution which il washing of the Continent
Slavery aristocracy caste and privilege. came up with
Salmon T. Chase into the Supreme Court Of the United
States and is already enhrOncd in the seat Of its Chief
Justice and in the chairs Of the lawyers who argue at
its bar. T. W.