Group A
Newspaper Title: Albany Evening Journal
Publication Place: Albany, New York
Date: March 9, 1857
They converted the Supreme Court of Law and Equity of the United States of America into a propagandist of human Slavery. Fatal day for a judiciary made reputable throughout the world, and reliable to all in this nation, by the learning and the virtues of Jay, Rutledge, Ellsworth, Marshall and Story!
The conspiracy is nearly completed. The Legislation of the Republic is in the hands of this handfull of Slaveholders. The United States Senate assures it to them. The Executive power of the Government is theirs. Buchanan took the oath of fealty to them on the steps of the Capitol last Wednesday. The body which gives the supreme law of the land, has just acceded to their demands, and dared to declare that under the charter of the Nation, men of African descent are not citizens of the United States and can not be -- that the Ordinance of 1787 was void -- that human Slavery is not a local thing, but pursues its victims to free soil, clings to them wherever they go, and returns with them -- that the American Congress has no power to prevent the enslavement of men in the National Territories -- that the inhabitants themselves of the Territories have no power to exclude human bondage from their midst -- and that men of color can not be suitors for justice in the Courts of the United States.
Newspaper Title: Albany Evening Journal
Publication Place: Albany, New York
Date: March 10, 1857
Many things in the monstrous decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, shock the moral sense of the public. But the barbarism of the blow which annihilates the citizenship of all the Free colored people in the United States, has fallen with a stunning force on all who have been taught that justice is obligatory on man, and that Christianity is the social law of Humanity. The half million of men and women paralysed by the atheistic logic of the decision of the case of Dred Scott, which disfranchises them on the soil on which they were born, will be to all free and uncorrupted souls a complete denial of the bad law and worse conscience, with which the Supreme Court has pronounced its departure from Republicanism and its entrance into Slavery.
Newspaper Title: Ohio State Journal
Publication Place: Columbus, Ohio
Date: March 31, 1857
Who made Mr. Buchanan or his mouth-piece, a judge or divider of races, and a perverter of Scripture truth? Its inspiration comes not from above, for St. Paul distinctly declares that "God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the whole earth," and the Saviour of men plainly intimates that an injury done to the least of his brethren will be considered as an injury done to Him. Does the Union mean to exclude the "African slave" from the great salvation which Christ came to reveal, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death? We advise the Union to ascend above the Satanic influence in which it is at present immersed, to the light and liberty to which true patriotism and impartial Christianity point the way. If the Union would be enlightened in regard to the question, Who is my Neighbor? let it read the 25th chapter of Matthew, from the 31st verse, and the 10th chapter of St. Luke from the 25th verse.
Newspaper Title: Ohio State Journal
Publication Place: Columbus, Ohio
Date: April 3, 1857
We call the especial attention of our readers to the Report and Resolutions of the Committee of the Legislature in regard to the judicial outrage known as the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court upon the Dred Scott case. We understand the report expresses the unanimous judgment of the Republicans of both the Senate and House Committees, and we hope it will be sustained with the same unanimity by the Legislature. This is no time for mincing matters. The continued aggressions of the Federal Government in behalf of Negro Slavery must be met by the States in which the principles of Liberty yet survive. Ohio took the lead in 1855 in opposition to the Kansas Nebraska act, and it is very proper that she should again lead the column of Freedom in opposition to the doctrines recently promulgated by a Federal Slaveholding Court.
Group B
Newspaper Title: Richmond Enquirer
Publication Place: Richmond, Virginia
Date: March 10, 1857
The nation has achieved a triumph, sectionalism has been rebuked, and abolitionism has been staggered and stunned. Another supporting pillar has been added to our institutions… a patriotic principle has been pronounced; a great, national, conservative, union saving sentiment has been proclaimed. An adjudication of the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise, in the Dred Scott case, inseparably embraced collateral questions of such character, as also to involve incidental issues, not unfrequently arising in the councils of the country, and which have ever proved, points of irreconcilable antagonism between the friends and enemies of the institutions of the South; all of which, it will be seen, have been uneqivocally established in accordance with the sense of the Southern people. And thus it is, that reason and right, justice and truth, always triumph over passion and prejudice, ignorance and envy, when submitted to the deliberations of honest and able men: that the dross and the genuine metal are separated when the ore is accurately assayed.
Newspaper Title: Charleston Mercury
Publication Place: Charleston, South Carolina
Date: March 17, 1857
In this decision of the Court there is certainly presented to the minds of all those anxious Union-savers south of MASON and DIXON'S line -- the men who have been teaching us so anxiously lessons of peace, and forbearance, and self-sacrifice -- a charming subject of contemplation and retrospection. It appears that we, Secessionists, have been all the while not disturbing the law, not intruding novelties upon the country, not seeking to break up established principles, but that we have been simply a step in advance of the highest tribunal in the country, in declaring what was the law of the land, and seeking honestly and faithfully to enforce it.
The black Republicans of the North, and their allies in the South, may lament again and again the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas act, and the repeal of the Missouri restriction; but the whole question has been settled by the highest judicial tribunal in the country, and from this decision there can be no appeal.
Newspaper Title: Weekly North Carolina Standard
Publication Place: Raleigh, North Carolina
Date: March 18, 1857
The black Republicans of the North, and their allies in the South, may lament again and again the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas act, and the repeal of the Missouri restriction; but the whole question has been settled by the highest judicial tribunal in the country, and from this decision there can be no appeal.
Abolitionism has been stunned, faction and treason in both sections of the Union have been rebuked, and the Constitution has been restored. This decision concedes to the Southern people all they have ever asked -- the Constitution. If true to themselves, they will never take any thing less.
Newspaper Title: Federal Union
Publication Place: Milledgeville, GA
Date: March 31, 1857
The leaders of the Black Republican Party are denouncing the decision of the very Tribunal to which they had appealed, and are endeavoring to excite among the people of the North a bitter hostility to it. They will endeavor to organize a party on the basis of opposition to the decision of the majority of the Court in the Dred Scott case. But as fanatical as the people of New England are, they will hesitate to enter the ranks of a political party, organized for the express purpose of overturning a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. Some of our Southern editors depreciate the agitation to which this decision will give rise. But let it come. The fury of the storm has passed. The treasonable conduct of the leaders of the Black Republican party will be rebuked at their very doors. The issue they have raised will be met by the true-hearted, Constitutional, law-abiding men of the North, and thousands who followed Fremont and "bleeding Kansas," will find themselves allied with the Union men of the country, in sustaining the determination of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case.