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ecorded by a leading Republican after the most straitest sect of that political faith. The Dred Scott decision, says Mr. Blaine, received no respect after Mr. Lincoln became President, and without reversal by the court was utterly disregarded. And again, almost immediately afterward, on the same page, When President Lincoln, in 1861, authorized the denial of the writ of habeas corpus to persons arrested on a charge of treason, Chief Justice Taney delivered an opinion in the case of John Merryman, denying the President's power to suspend the writ, declaring that Congress only was competent to do it. The executive department paid no attention to the decision. （Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. I, page 137.) The reader will not fail to observe the naive unconsciousness with which it is here assumed by implication that the obligation of the constitutional oath, when particularly inconvenient or disagreeable to comply with, may be quietly set aside. As regards the Supreme Court it