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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 44: Charleston Convention, 1860. (search)
ization composed of the strict constructionists of the Constitution, sometimes called the old line Democrats, stood in solid phalanx ready to insist upon the equal rights of the South under the Constitution, and the men of the South generally stood firmly upon the decisions of the Supreme Court, and notably upon the Dred Scott decision, which placed slave property on exactly the same basis with that in lands, houses, and all other property. This decision was rendered by the venerable Chief Justice Taney, whose stainless ermine will never grace a nobler or more irreproachable judge, or one more worthy to sit in the most august body in the civilized world. In this convention, after balloting for several days, the first formally defined sectional line was made manifest. The majority report resolved that it was the duty of the Federal Government to protect all citizens in their rights of property and person in the Territories, and it was the duty of the Government to admit the Te