The Supreme Court.Albany, New York, Evening Journal [Republican](19 March 1857)
Five of its nine silk gowns are worn by Slaveholders.
More than half its long Bench is filled
with Slaveholders. Its Chief Justice is a Slaveholder.
The Free States with double the population
of the Slave State, do not have half the
Judges. The majority represent a minority of
350,000. The minority represent a majority of
twenty Millions!
It has long been so. Originally there were
three Northern and three Southern Judges. But
the South soon got the bigger share of the black
robes, and kept them. Of the thirty-eight who
have sat there in judgment, twenty-two were
nurtured "on plantation." The Slave States
have been masters of the Court fifty-seven years,
the Free States but eleven! The Free States have
had the majority only seven years, this century.
Even the Free State Judges are chosen from
Slavery extending parties. Presidents nominate,
and Senates confirm none other. Three
times a new Judgeship has been created, and
every time it has been filled with a Slaveholder.
The advocate who pleads there against Slavery,
wastes his voice in its vaulted roof, and upon
ears stuffed sixty years with cotton. His case is
judged before it is argued, and his client
condemned before he is heard.
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