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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 5: the political situation (search)
eir sleeves which they proceeded to play. That card was the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, upon which they relied to give them the legal power to take and hold their slaves in all parts of the land. Up to the date of that decision, the current of judicial rulings had been that slavery, being a municipal institution, was local, while freedom was national. Hence, when a master took his slave into a free State, at that instant he became a free man. The Dred Scott decision was intended to reverse the rule. Practically it held that slave ownership, wherever the Constitution prevailed, was both a legal and a natural right. It, as Benton forcibly expressed it, made slavery the organic law of the land and freedom the exception ; or, as it was jocularly expressed at the time, it left freedom nowhere. Although at the time of its promulgation, it was claimed by some of the more conservative pro-slavery leaders that the Dred Scott dictum applied only t
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Index (search)
, Gen. Samuel R., and military control of Missouri, 163-164; charges against, 163. D Democratic party, division of, 11. Democrats, 4, 7; Anti-Nebraska, 9; of New York, 9. Denison, Charles M., 203, 205. Dickinson, Anna E., 205. Dissolution of Union, petition for, 2. Doughface, 4. Douglas, Stephen A., 12; dislike of, by slaveholders' factions, 12; defeated for President, 94-99; and Abolitionists, 53; hated by slave-owners, 153. Douglass, Fred., 112. Drake, Hon. Charles D., 167. Dred Scott decision, 45-46; too late for South's purpose, 47. Dresser, Amos, whipped, 119. E Emancipation proclamation, 137-138; due to Abolitionists, 2; story of, 139; moral influence of, 146; Lincoln's reasons for, 146; ineffective, 148; text of, 211-213. Ewing, Gen. Thomas, 194; repulsion of General Price, 195. F Field, David Dudley, 179. Fish, W. H., 205. Fletcher, Thomas C., 155. Fort Donelson, capture of, 184, 192. Fort Henry, capture of, 184. Foss, A. T., 205. Foster, Daniel,