Half a Million Citizens Disfranchised.Albany, New York, Evening Journal [Republican](10 March 1857)
Many things in the monstrous decision of the
U. S. Supreme Court, shock the moral sense of
the public. But the barbarism of the blow
which annihilates the citizenship of all the Free
colored people in the United States, has fallen
with a stunning force on all who have been
taught that justice is obligatory on man, and
that Christianity is the social law of Humanity.
The half million of men and women paralysed
by the atheistic logic of the decision of the case
of Dred Scott, which disfranchises them on the
soil on which they were born, will be to all free
and uncorrupted souls a complete denial of the
bad law and worse conscience, with which the
Supreme Court has pronounced its departure
from Republicanism and its entrance into Slavery.
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