Southern Confidence.Springfield, Illinois, State Journal [Republican](17 March 1857)
-- The last thing we
should anticipate from our Southern brethren
would be a self-reproach that they had not been
true to themselves. but such is the opinion of the
Charleston Mercury. that paper says:
"if we ever save ourselves -- if we ever establish
firmly the institution of Slavery beyond
question at the South -- it will be by acting independently
of both these allies. the Slavery
party at the North has gone down for the want
of efficient support at the South."
"If we ever establish the institution of
Slavery beyond question at the South," is decidedly
good. the Mercury will probably feel assured
that Slavery is tolerably well established at the
South, and everywhere else, when it bears of
the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred
Scott case.
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