...ocracy for sixty years; overthrown by Abolitionism since 1860. 3. The supremacy of the civil power over the military. Let us hope that the repeated violation of this principle with impunity by Abraham Lincoln and his minions has been but a temporary ascendancy of brute force, over freedom of opinion among a people who were born free. 4. The Dred Scott decision — The enunciation of the great tru...