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No Title. Oct 1859

No Title.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

[Pointing Finger] The public are busy conjecturing whether or not Gov. Wise will demand from the Executives of Ohio and New York the bodies of Gerrit Smith, Giddings, and others, who may be implicated in the Harper's Ferry affair; and speculations are indulged as to what will be the course of those Governors, and as to the probable results of a refusal on their part to deliver up such citizens of their respective States as indictments may be found against by the Virginia authorities for aiding and abetting the recent act of invasion of that Commonwealth.


The True Lesson. Oct 1859

The True Lesson.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

It is a very careless use of words to describe the Harper's Ferry outbreak as a "negro insurrection," or "slave insurrection," as is frequently done by presses


What Is "Kansas Work?" Oct 1859

What Is "Kansas Work?"

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

viewed in its true light, how there can be any question that it forms a part, and an important part, of the criminal transaction


No Title. Oct 1859

No Title.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

[Pointing Finger] The Harper's Ferry affair continues to attract more attention than all other matters combined, and we therefore yield most of our space to the telegraphic reports of the examining trial of Brown an his confederates.


No Title. Oct 1859

No Title.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

[Pointing Finger] The Richmond Enquirer is fearfully distressed lest Kentucky may be made the victim of a "descent" of the class of Abolitionists of whom Brown is a type, and lest, being at a greater distance from the forces of the Federal Government, the attempt at exciting a general insurrection among the slaves of this State may be successful before the assistance of the Federal troops can be obtained.


The Harper's Ferry Affair. Oct 1859

The Harper's Ferry Affair.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The whole affair dwindles into utter insignificance as the literal facts are brought out from the uncertainty peculiar to the first demonstration.


Where Is The Responsibility? Oct 1859

Where Is The Responsibility?

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Reports speak of discoveries of correspondence with noted abolitionists and proofs of concert with notorious men in the Northern and Western States.


No Title. Oct 1859

No Title.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

We are pleased to observe that the Northern press, without the distinction of party, express the most unqualified condemnation of the wicked and insane projects of Brown and his hairbrained associates.


The Insurrection At Harper's Ferry. Oct 1859

The Insurrection At Harper's Ferry.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The details by Telegraph of the insurrection at Harper's Ferry take up so much space as to prevent their publication in our paper.


A Caution. Oct 1859

A Caution.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

These journals thus make themselves the agents, which abolitionism desires, for sending its tracts into the midst of the South, and, under professions of friendship, do the work of our deadliest foes.


The Decision Of The Supreme Court In The Dred Scott Case. Apr 1857

The Decision Of The Supreme Court In The Dred Scott Case.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The Black Republican papers, with but few exceptions, so far as we have seen, are down upon the Supreme Court, for their decision in the Dred Scott case.


The Dred Scott Decision: Its Legal And Political Consequences Mar 1857

The Dred Scott Decision: Its Legal And Political Consequences

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The late formal decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case has been undergoing the most vigorous and untiring explanation and discussion in the New York journals, and no end of incomprehensible legal profundity is employed to mystify the few intelligible points of constitutionality and law contained in the decision.


No Title. Mar 1857

No Title.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

There is a party at Washington, evidently, which derives great comfort from this notable judgment; it is talked of as the new corner stone of slave expansion, something almost equal to a palladium of liberty.


The Decision Of The Supreme Court. Mar 1857

The Decision Of The Supreme Court.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

We publish to-day, at length, the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, delivered by Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case.


No Title. Mar 1857

No Title.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

several of the Supreme Court Judges are getting their opinions printed privately, and have revised them to conform to the points of Judges Curtis and McLean


Southern Confidence. Mar 1857

Southern Confidence.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The last thing we should anticipate from our Southern brethren would be a self-reproach that they had not been true to themselves


No Title. Mar 1857

No Title.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Yes, he has done all this, and delivered one of the most atrocious law opinions that has ever disgraced the history of the courts of civilized nations.


The Supreme Court On The Slavery Question. Mar 1857

The Supreme Court On The Slavery Question.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

We give this morning an abstract of the opinions of Justice McLean and Curtis, dissenting from said decision, wherein they maintain that the Missouri Compromise is constitutional


Decision In The Dred Scott Case. Mar 1857

Decision In The Dred Scott Case.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

the power of Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territory was not, as the majority of the Court expressed, limited to territory belonging to the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution


The Dred Scott Case. Mar 1857

The Dred Scott Case.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

we can but foresee that this decision will create, everywhere, a profound sensation


Highly Important Decision. Mar 1857

Highly Important Decision.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The Supreme Court of the United States, on Friday last, delivered through Chief Justice Taney its decision in the Dred Scott case, containing the following opinions:


The Dred Scott Decision. Mar 1857

The Dred Scott Decision.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

the United States Supreme Court decides the unconstitutionality of the Missouri compromise act, and rules that a colored man cannot be a citizen of the United States


The Decision In The Supreme Court. Mar 1857

The Decision In The Supreme Court.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The decision just made in the Dred Scott case, an obscure African, by the Supreme Court of the United States, is probably the most important that ever emanated from that highest tribunal of our country.


Political "Non Sequiturs." Jun 1856

Political "Non Sequiturs."

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Mr. Sumner has the mark of Cain on his brow but it don't follow that he was Abel to defend himself.


More Of It. Jun 1856

More Of It.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Senator Wilson, in a speech at Worcester said, that when he and others were conveying Mr. Sumner to his lodgings, Mr. S. remarked: "I shall give it to them again if God spares my life.


From The St. Louis Evening News: A Difference Of Opinions Jun 1856

From The St. Louis Evening News: A Difference Of Opinions

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

On the whole the Mercury concludes that the negro demonstration is a "spectacle as disgusting as it is novel -- offensive to every sentiment of South Carolina society, and calculated to bring ridicule and disgrace upon the whole movement." We think so, too.


South Carolina. Jun 1856

South Carolina.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

The only men in South Carolina who gave their efforts to the country in the Revolutionary war, were poor men, and poor men in South Carolina at this time are denied the right of sufferage, and are incapable of holding office.


Senator Wilson And Brooks. Jun 1856

Senator Wilson And Brooks.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Every one here thought when the stand takenby Senator Wilson was made known that a rencontrewould be the immediate consequence


No Title. Jun 1856

No Title.

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Brooks declares upon his honor as a gentleman that he had no coajutor in his achievement in the Senate the other day.


The Sumner Assault Jun 1856

The Sumner Assault

Secession Era Newspaper Editorials

Mr. Brooks, of S. C., has been burned in effigy at Cambridge, Mass..