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Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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t judicial tribunal^gg^^ of the nation, was prepared to make a decision in a case affectingthe rights of slave-holders under the Constitution; but Mr. Bu-chanan thought it best to insert another sentence in his address. Itwas the expression of a hope that the decision would forever settle avery vexatious question. Two days passed, and Roger B. Taney, ofMaryland, Chief-justice, startled the people by what he had to say con-cerning two slaves. Dred Scott and his wife Harriet were owned byDr. Emerson, of St. Louis. He was a surgeon in the army. He tookthem to Rock Island, in Iowa, Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and then to St.Louis. Having been taken voluntarily by him into a Free Territory, theslaves claimed they were entitled to their liberty under the commonlaw of the country. Of the nine judges com)iosing the court, five werefrom the Slave States. Seven of the judges agieed that the Constitutionrecognized slaves as jiroperty and nothing more. They were not and 154 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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TiOGEIl B. TA^EY. could not be citizens. Not being citizens, tliey could not bring a suit inany court of the United States. The claim of Dred and Harriet Scottmust be settled by the court of Missouri. The Constitution recognizedslaves as property, and that property must be protected. It wasdecided that the Compromise of 1820 and that of 1850 were uncon-stitutional. By this decision a slave had no civil rights. He was a thi7ig only—no more than a horse, cow, or pig. The logic of the decision carriedslavery not only into the Territories, but into the Free States. It upset

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