Speech Of The Hon Ak Marshall Of Kentucky On The Slavery Question PDF Download

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky, in the House of Representatives, January 19, 1859 We are told that the Dred Scott case has been misinterpreted; that this 'point was not before the court; what the slaveholding 'judges said was mere obiter dicta; and, finally, that the political power of Congress cannot be controlled by a co-ordinate department of the Gov ernment. But these exceptions to the Opinion will not avail. The Supreme Court is a constitutional tribunal, to last as long as the Gov ernment of the United States and it has pronounced its Opinion on the point in question, not only unmistakably as a 'court, but with such force in the separate Opinions of its members, both from free and slave States; that there is no longer any doubt of the views of the tribunal. The decision of that court is the supreme law until it shall be reversed. The. American party placed its dictum also on record, through its national council, against the continuance of this agitation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.