The advocate., 1896-09-30
ABOUT ANARCHISTS.
Continued from page 81

papers indulged In severe criticism both
Of Mr.. Buchanan and the court, declRr-
ing that the independence OF the co-or-
dinate branches Of the government was
dangerously invaded when the Executive
was privately advised Of a judicial de-
cislon in advance OF its delivery by the
court"
The following is found on the same
page: civilian Pitt Fessenden, who
always spoke with precision, and never
with passion, asserted in the Senate that
the court, after hearing the argument
had reserved its judgment until the
Presidential election was decided" He
sVoWed the belief that Mr., Buchanan
would have been defeated il the decision
had not been withheld, and that in the
event Of Fremont's election I'VE should
never have heard Of q doctrine, so utterly
at variance with all truth, so utterly
destitute of all legal logic, so founded on
error and SO unsupported by anything
resembling argument. "
On the next page this appears: "Mr.
Lincoln, whose singular powers were be-
ginning to be appreciated, severely at
tackled the decision IN a public speech In
Illinois, not merely for its doctrine but
for the mode in which the decision had
been brought about and the obvious
political intent Of the Judges"
On page 134, Mr.. Blaine says: "The
decision was at war with the practice
aud traditions of the government from
it's foundation and set aside the mRtuFed
convictions Of two generations Of con-
serVatiVe statesmen from the South as
we'll as the North. It proved injurious
to the court, which thenceforth was as
sailed most bitterly In the North and de-
Tended with Incorporate zeal in the
South"
After Chief Justice Tsney was dead,
when an effort was being made to have
marble bust OF the deceased placed in
the Supreme court room, as was the GUS
tom, Charles Sumner said (Blaine's
Twenty Years Of Congress, vol. l, p 1861:
"Taney would be hooted down the pages
of history, and that an emancipated
country would fix upon his name the
stigma it deserved. He had administered
justice wickedly, had degraded the
judiciary and had degraded the age"
Senator Henry Wilson, Rfterward Vice
President, elected with General Grant,
followed in denouncing the Dred Scott
decision "as the greatest crime in the
judicial annals OF the republic, the sb-
horrence, the scoff, the jeer OF the
patriotic hearts of America"
Senator Hale Of New Hampshire said
that monument to Tsney "would give
the lie to all that had been said by the
friends Of Justice, liberty and down
trodden humanity" respecting the
iniquity OF the Dred Scott decision.
Senator Ben Wade Of Ohio violently
opposed the proposition. He RVoWed his
belief that the "Dred Scott case was got
up to give judicial sanction to the enor-
nous iniqulty that prevailed in every
branch Of our government at that period.
He insisted that the people Of Ohio,
whose opinions he professed TO represent,
would pay $1,000 to hang the late Chief
Justice in efigy rather than 81 900 for q
bust to commemorate bis merits"
Speaking Of ReVerdy Johnson's defense
Of Taney, Sumner said he was reminded
Of q character, known to the Roman
church, who always figures at the canon
izatiOn of a saint, as the devils advo-
cate"
The words quoted above are as quoted
by Mr.. Blaine on pages 1857 OF vol l
Of his Twenty Years Of Congress"
Mr.. Blaine on page l37 says: "Fhe
Dred Scott decision received no respect
after Mr.. Lincoln became President, and,
without reversal by the court, was ut
turly disregarded. When Mr.. Chase be-
came Chief Justice, colored persons were
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