On this day in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, therebynegating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.
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At the heart of the case was the most important question of the 1850s: Should slavery be allowed in the West? As part of the Compromise of 1850, residents of newly created territories could decide the issue of slavery by vote, a process known as popular sovereignty. When popular sovereignty was applied in Kansas in 1854, however, violence erupted. Americans hoped that the Supreme Court could settle the issue that had eluded a congressional solution.
Dred Scott was a slave whose owner, an army doctor, had spent time in Illinois, a free state, and Wisconsin, a free territory at the time of Scott’s residence. The Supreme Court was stacked in favor of the slave states. Five of the nine justices were from the South while another, Robert Grier of Pennsylvania, was staunchly pro-slavery. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote the majority decision, which was issued on March 6, 1857. The court held that Scott was not free based on his residence in either Illinois or Wisconsin becausehe was not considered a person under the U.S. Constitution–in the opinion of the justices, black people were not considered citizens when the Constitution was drafted in 1787. According to Taney, Dred Scott was the property of his owner, and property could not be taken from a person without due process of law.
In fact, there were free black citizens of the United States in 1787, but Taney and the other justices were attempting to halt further debate on the issue of slavery in the territories. The decision inflamed regional tensions, which burned for another four years before exploding into the Civil War.
And yet there are blacks who vote Democrat. They should learn a little of their history.
And yet there are blacks who vote Democrat. Perhaps they should learn a little about black history and the Republican party versus the Democratic party.
The republicans betrayed the freed slaves when the military occupation of the southern states ended. Their “40 acres and a mule” deal was a fraud from the start and the freed slaves got screwed after being used by carpetbaggers in the rump state governments. Their descendants remember that betrayal to this day.
Learning about the history of republican treatment of freed slaves after the war wouldn’t make black voters switch to the GOP. Many of them already know what happened, and those who were learning about it for the first time would hate the GOP even more.
I sorta doubt very many Blacks know anything about history or care about anything other than what their owners, the Democrats, tell them to care about.
If they did, they wouldn’t let the Democrats use them they way they do for their political agenda purposes.
Interesting. I cant help but see paralells now between Sessions recusing, as the dems demanded, and the obvious bias/corruption/perversions of our so called judicial branch’s “interpretation” of constitutional law re:human sovereignty which I didnot realize until now, was a republican concept! I am not surprised by the typical “liberal”response to this peice being essentially non forgiving and non forgetting, but its dismaying nonetheless, since they are blindsided by their own focus – and stumbling right into the intended direction of division and dischord reinforced. And the PTB are thus assured station. The release of vault 7 and the CIA’S bag of dirty deeds and cyber weapons will undoubtedly force a scurrying of rats and an uncovering of similar fate twisting misdeeds perpetuated by decades of hive minded self servors and minions , which in turn, will insure the “revolt”and dischord the PTB have desired all along.