No Title.Springfield, Illinois, State Journal [Republican](18 March 1857)
[pointing finger] The New York Herald, in speaking of
the resent decision of the Supreme Court in
favor of Slavery expansion, says:
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 judgment
must stand or fall by its own strength and uprightness.
but the Washington politicians who
believe that it settles anything must be afflicted
with very severe optalmia indeed. for while
these venerable Judges are discoursing on the
theoretical expansions of slavery North and West
free labor is making a very tangible step into
the heart of the strongest strongholds of slavery.
chief Justice Taney lays out on paper an infinitude
of Slave States and Territories; he
makes all the States in a measure slave States;
but while the old is thus diverting his slippered
leisure, free carpenters and blacksmiths and
farmers, with hoe, spade and plough, are invading
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia, and quietly elbowing the slaves
further South. it will take a good many Supreme
Courts to reverse a law of nature such
as we here see in operation.
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