Book/Printed Material The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney
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Image 1 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney THE DRED SCOTT DECISION. OPINION OF CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DR. J. H. VAN EVRIE ALSO, AN APPENDIX, NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PROGNATHOUS RACE Of Mankind, ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
- Date: 1860
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Image 2 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, By VAN EVRIE, HORTON & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. LC- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
- Date: 1860
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Image 3 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney INTRODUCTION BY DR. J. H. VAN EVRIE. This opinion of Chief Justice Taney and those of his eminent colleagues of the Supreme Court of the Republic, is an epoch in our civil…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 4 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney iv African negroes, and when the British dominion was overthrown, all the colonies had more or less of this negro element in their midst. All these negroes or their progenitors, all ever…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 5 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney v Indeed, it is true, and a truth which any reflecting mind may readily understand, that were the new entirely isolated from the old world, no other conception of the negro would…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 6 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney vi to those of Europe, but it convinced the upholders of the latter that this hostility could never cease until one or the other was overthrown. Fortunately, too, for the friends of…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 7 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney vii race; that the negro, Indian, &c., of America had the same nature, the same wants, and therefore the same rights as white men; and the British government, under the younger Pitt,…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 8 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney viii us into the adoption of British “anti-slavery” ideas, and the support of their “antislavery” policy, would be measurably successful. On a hasty and superficial view, it seemed to be the cause…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 9 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney ix course, slavery or freedom has nothing to do with the matter. They are terms of comparison, having reference to conditions of our own race, and are utter perversions, misapplications, absurdities, when…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 10 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. DECEMBER TERM, 1856. DRED SCOTT versus JOHN F. A. SANDFORD. Dred Scott, Plaintiff In Error, v. John F. A. Sandford. I. 1. Upon a writ of…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 11 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 12 II. 1. But if the plea in abatement is not brought up by this writ of error, the objection to the citizenship of the plaintiff is still apparent on the record,…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 12 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 13 3. Every citizen has a right to take with him into the Territory any article of property which the Constitution of the United States recognises as property. 4. The Constitution of…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 13 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 14 The counsel then filed the following agreed statement of facts, viz: In the year 1834, the plaintiff was a negro slave belonging to Dr. Emerson, who was a surgeon in the…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 14 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 15 “The jury are instructed, that upon the facts In this case, the law is with the defendant” The plaintiff excepted to this instruction. Upon these exceptions, the case came up to…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 15 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 16 it specially, and unless the fact On which he relics is found to be true by a jury, or admitted to be true by the plaintiff, the jurisdiction Cannot be disputed…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 16 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 17 up by writ of error, the whole record was under the consideration of this court. And this being the case in the present instance, the plea in abatement is necessarily under…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 17 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 18 or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them. It…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 18 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 19 separate political communities into one political family, whose power, for certain specified purposes, was to extend over the whole territory of the United States. And it gave to each citizen rights…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 19 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 20 with any negro or mulatto, such white man or white woman shall become servants during the term of seven years, and shall be disposed of by the justices as aforesaid, and…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 20 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 21 meaning of the language they used, and how it would be understood by others; and they knew that it would not in any part of the civilized world be supposed to…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 21 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 22 from the people of the States where they resided. And it can hardly be supposed that, in the States where it was then countenanced in its worst form—that is, in the…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 22 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 23 And in the act of 1784, by which the issue of slaves, born after the time therein mentioned, were to be free at u certain age, the sect on is again…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 23 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 24 was again re enacted in its revised code of 1844. So that, down to the last-montioned period, the strongest mark of inferiority and degradation was fastened upon the African race in…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 24 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 25 from the indiscreet or improper admission by other States of emigrants from other countries, by giving the power exclusively to Congress, we cannot fail to see that they could never have…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 25 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 26 The first of these acts is the naturalization law, which was passed at the second session of the first Congress. March 26, 1790, and confines the right of becoming citizens “…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 26 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 27 sovereignty, would be an abuse of terms, and not calculated to exalt the character or an American citizen in the eyes of other nations. The conduct of the Executive Department of…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 27 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 28 of showing that this court has decided that the descendant of a slave may sue as a citizen in a court of the United States; but the case itself shows that…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
- Date: 1860
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Image 28 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 29 as well as criminal, in which a Circuit Court of the United States may exercise jurisdiction, although one of the African race is a party; that broad question is not before…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 29 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 30 but if that plea is regarded as waived, or out of the case upon any other ground, yet the question as to the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court is presented on…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 30 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 31 an inferior court for error, to correct by its opinions whatever errors may appear on the record material to the case; and they have always held it to be their duty…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 31 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 32 The case, as he himself states it, on the record brought here by his writ of error, is this: The plaintiff was a negro slave, belonging to Dr. Emerson, who was…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 32 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 33 and unsettled territories which were included in the chartered limits of some of the States. And some of the other States, and more especially Maryland, which bad no unsettled lands, insisted…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 33 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 34 decide on certain measures which the States, by the Articles of Confederation, had agreed to submit to their decision. But this Confederation had none of the attributes of sovereignty in legislative,…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 34 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 35 held in common at that time, and has no reference whatever to any territory or other property which the new sovereignty might afterwards itself acquire. The language used in the clause,…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 35 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 36 of the United States dealt with the subject as soon as it came into existence. It must be borne in mind that the same States that formed the Confederation also formed…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 36 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 37 statesmen. when they mean to give the powers of sovereignty, or to establish a Government, or to authorise its establishment. Thus, in the law to renew and keep alive the ordinance…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 37 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 38 no justification and no argument to support a similar exercise of power over territory afterwards acquired by the Federal Government. We put aside, therefore, any argument, drawn from precedents, showing the…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
- Date: 1860
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Image 38 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 39 in the Constitution which is now given by this court. And that upon an appeal from his decision the same question was brought before this court, but was not decided because…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 39 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 40 judges hold their offices for a term of years only; and may vest in them judicial power upon subjects confided to the judiciary of the United States. And in doing this,…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
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Image 40 of The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney 41 the authority and rights of the Government, and also the personal rights and rights of property of individual citizens, as secured by the Constitution. All we mean to say on this…- Contributor: Taney, Roger Brooke - United States. Supreme Court - Van Evrie, John H. - Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
- Date: 1860
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Title
- The Dred Scott decision : opinion of Chief Justice Taney
Names
- United States. Supreme Court
- Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864
- Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896
- Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus), 1793-1863
Created / Published
- New York : Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1860, c1859.
Headings
- - Scott, Dred,--1809-1858--Trials, litigation, etc
- - Sanford, John F.A.,--1806- or 7-1857--Trials, litigation, etc
- - Slavery--Law and legislation--United States
- - Slavery--United States--Legal status of enslaved persons in free states
- - Missouri compromise
Notes
- - Decision in the case of the slave, Dred Scott, vs. John F. A. Sandford, his master.
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- 48 p. ; 23 cm.
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- KF4545.S5 U555 1859
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- 17001543
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- 13118785
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- Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus)
- Taney, Roger Brooke
- United States. Supreme Court
- Van Evrie, John H.