Book/Printed Material The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full opinions of Chief Justice Taney and Justice Curtis, and abstracts of the opinions of the other judges; with an analysis of the points ruled, and some concluding observations.
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Image 1 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. THE FULL OPINIONS OF CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY AND JUSTICE CURTIS, AND ABSTRACTS OF THE OPINIONS OF THE OTHER JUDGES; WITH AN...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 2 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... LC- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 3 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... THE DRED SCOTT CASE; IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, December Term, 1856. Dred Scott, Plaintiff in error, v. John F. A. Sandford. THIS CASE, which was an ordinary action...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 4 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 4 that marriage. Eliza is about fourteen years old, and was born on board the steamboat Gipsey, north of the north line of the State of Missouri, and upon the river Mississippi....- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 5 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 5 the plaintiff was not a citizen of the State of Missouri, as alleged in his declaration, being a negro of African descent, whose ancestors were of pure African blood, and who...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 6 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 6 that he should show, in his pleading, that the suit he brings is within the jurisdiction of the court, and that he is entitled to sue there. And if he omits...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 7 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 7 “It will be observed, that the plea applies to that class of persons only whose ancestors were negroes of the African race, and imported into this country, and sold and held...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 8 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 8 to the political or law-making power; to those who formed the sovereignty and framed the Constitution. The duty of the court is, to interpret the instrument they have framed, with the...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 9 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 9 other; it was formed by them, and for them and their posterity, but for no one else. And the personal rights and privileges guarantied to citizens of this new sovereignty were...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 10 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 10 formed the Constitution of the United States. The slaves were more or less numerous in the different colonies, as slave labor was found more or less profitable. But no one seems...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 11 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 11 of man and the rights of the people, was intended to include them, or to give to them or their posterity the benefit of any of its provisions. “The language of...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 12 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 12 we are speaking, as the traffic in slaves in the United States had always been confined to them. And by the other provision the States pledge themselves to each other to...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 13 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 13 the Court of Appeals of Kentucky decided that free negroes and mulattoes were not citizens within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States; and the correctness of this decision...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 14 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 14 “And still further pursuing its legislation, we find that in the same statute, passed in 1774, which prohibited the further importation of slaves into the State, there is also a provision...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 15 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 15 penalty of two hundred dollars, and declaring all such marriages absolutely null and void; and the same law was again re-enacted in its revised code of 1844. So that, down to...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 16 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 16 Government. No State was willing to permit another State to determine who should or should not be admitted as one of its citizens, and entitled to demand equal rights and privileges...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 17 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 17 alteration in words would hardly have been made, unless a different meaning was intended to be conveyed, or a possible doubt removed. The just and fair inference is, that as this...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 18 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 18 “The third act to which we have alluded is even still more decisive; it was passed as late as 1813, (2 Stat., 809,) and it provides: ‘That from and after the...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 19 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 19 not a citizen even of the State itself. And in some of the States of the Union foreigners not naturalized are allowed to vote. And the State may give the right...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 20 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 20 who argued the case for the appellee, who was the mutual friend of the parties, and confided in by both of them, and whose only object was to have the rights...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 21 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 21 of his title to that character, and which, under the Constitution, no one but a citizen can claim. It is manifest that the case of Legrand and Darnall has no bearing...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 22 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 22 opinion, that, upon the facts stated in the plea in abatement, Dred Scott was not a citizen of Missouri within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States, and not...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 23 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 23 us, that the Circuit Court committed an error, in deciding that it had jurisdiction, upon the facts in the case, admitted by the pleadings. It is the duty of the appellate...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 24 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 24 point. In the last-mentioned case, Capron brought an action against Van Noorden in a Circuit Court of the United States, without showing, by the usual averments of citizenship, that the Court...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 25 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 25 old, and was born in the State of Missouri, at the military post called Jefferson Barracks. “In the year 1838, said Dr. Emerson removed the plaintiff and said Harriet, and their...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 26 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 26 raise money on this security to carry on the war. This appears by the resolution passed on the 6th of September, 1780, strongly urging the States to cede these lands to...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 27 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 27 It was this Congress that accepted the cession from Virginia. They had no power to accept it under the Articles of Confederation. But they had an undoubted right, as independent sovereignties,...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 28 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 28 other property belonging to the United States.’ It was intended for a specific purpose, to provide for the things we have mentioned. It was to transfer to the new Government the...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 29 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 29 that either party, by adopting the Constitution, would surrender what they deemed their rights. And when the latter provision relates so obviously to the unappropriated lands not yet ceded by the...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 30 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 30 and regulations. But if the clause is construed in the expanded sense con tended for, so as to embrace any territory acquired from a foreign nation by the present Government, and...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 31 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 31 by the first clause of the sixth article. This clause provides that ‘all debts, contracts, and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 32 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 32 establish a Government in the Territory, leaving it an open question, whether that power was derived from this clause in the Constitution, or was to be necessarily inferred from a power...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 33 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 33 leaving out of view what precedes and follows. It is in page 546, near the close of the opinion, in which the court say: ‘In legislating for them,’ (the territories of...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 34 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 34 Territory, to ordain and establish courts in which the judges hold their offices during good behavior, but may exercise the discretionary power which a State exercises in establishing its judicial department,...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 35 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 35 admission of new States is plainly given; and in the construction of this power by all the departments of the Government, it has been held to authorize the acquisition of territory,...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 36 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 36 them, and through which they spoke and acted when the Territory was obtained, it was not only within the scope of its powers, but it was its duty to pass such...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 37 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 37 “These powers, and others, in relation to rights of person, which it is not necessary here to enumerate, are, in express and positive terms, denied to the General Government; and the...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 38 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 38 affirmed in the Constitution. The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property, was guaranteed to the citizens of the United States in every State that...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 39 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 39 the slaves of the defendant; and reversed the judgment of the inferior State court, which had given a different decision. If the plaintiff supposed that this judgment of the Supreme Court...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860
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Image 40 of The case of Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court. The full ... 40 decide for itself, either by its legislature or courts of justice; and hence, in respect to the case before us, to the State of Missouri—a question exclusively of Missouri law, and...- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Scott, Dred - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court - Taney, Roger Brooke
- Date: 1860