Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1858 — The Dred Scott Decision. [ARTICLE]

The Dred Scott Decision.

I The Wa.sZtiny/on Z’hioh of September 14, 'says: I “The Chicago Times is engaged in an industrious attempt to limit and reduce the scope of the Dred Scott decision, in order I to reconcile with it the declarations of Judge : Douglas at Freeport, in which the Judge asserts for the authorities of the Territories, i while yet they are Territories, power to exclude slavery from their limits. The Judge himself endeavored to modify the effect of his decirations by claiming for the Territorial Legislatures power to introduce as well as to exclude slavery; but either branch of his assertions tire heretical and unsound. The purport of the Dred Scott decision is, ' that slavery is legalized in the Territories j without express law, propped vigore of the (Constitution; and, therefore, the indroductlion by express law is unnecessary, as its ’□exclusion by express law would be unconstitutional. When, therefore, Judge-Douglas j asserts that slavery may be introduced or excluded by Territorial legislation he makes [a declaration doubly inconsistent with the ; Dred Scott decision.”