Book/Printed Material Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and the opinions of the judges thereof, in the case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford. December term, 1856
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Image 1 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … REPORT OF THE DECISION OF THE Supreme Court of the United States, AND THE OPINIONS OF THE JUDGES THEREOF, IN THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT VERSUS JOHN F. A. SANDFORD. DECEMBER TERM,…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 2 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … REPORT OF THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE OPINIONS OF THE JUDGES THEREOF, IN THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT VERSUS JOHN F. A. SANDFORD. DECEMBER TERM,…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 3 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … LC- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 4 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 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. This case was brought up,…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 5 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 4 courts of the State of Missouri, for that, to wit: the said plaintiff, Dred Scott, is not a citizen of the State of Missouri, as alleged in his declaration, because he…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 6 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 5 At the times mentioned in the plaintiff's declaration, the defendant, claiming to be owner as aforesaid, laid his hands upon said plaintiff, Harriet, Eliza, and Lizzie, and imprisoned them, doing in…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 7 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 6 consideration. It has accordingly been again argued by counsel, and considered by the court; and I now proceed to deliver its opinion. There are two leading questions presented by the record:…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 8 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 7 But, in making this objection, we think the peculiar and limited jurisdiction of courts of the United States has not been adverted to. This peculiar and limited jurisdiction has made it…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 9 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 8 show, in his pleading, that the suit he brings is within the jurisdiction of the court, and that he is entitled to sue there. And if he omits to do this,…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 10 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 9 We think they are before us. The plea in abatement and the judgment of the court upon it, are a part of the judicial proceedings in the Circuit Court, and are…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 11 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 10 right of dominion. But that claim was acknowledged to be subject to the right of the Indians to occupy it as long as they thought proper, and neither the English nor…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 12 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 11 and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 13 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 12 rights and immunities which the Constitution and laws of the State attached to that character. It is very clear, therefore, that no State can, by any act or law of its…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 14 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 13 which he did not before possess, and placed him in every other State upon a perfect equality with its own citizens as to rights of person and rights of property; it…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 15 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 14 uniformly acted upon than by the English Government and English people. They not only seized them on the coast of Africa, and sold them or held them in slavery for their…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 16 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 15 the discretion of the justices before whom the offender shall be convicted.” And “that none of her Majesty's English or Scottish subjects, nor of any other Christian nation, within this province,…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 17 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 16 assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 18 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 17 that it is formed by the people of the United States; that is to say, by those who were members of the different political communities in the several States; and its…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 19 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 18 even in the minds of the framers of the Constitution when they were conferring special rights and privileges upon the citizens of a State in every other part of the Union.…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 20 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 19 And as long ago as 1822, the Court of Appeals of Kentucky decided that free negroes and mulattoes were not citizens within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States;…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 21 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 20 the new Constitution, the equal rights and privileges and rank of citizens in every other State. The first step taken by Connecticut upon this subject was as early as 1774, when…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 22 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 21 institution, or board or harbor for that purpose, any such person, without the previous consent in writing of the civil authority of the town in which such school or institution might…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 23 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 22 Again, in 1822, Rhode Island, in its revised code, passed a law forbidding persons who were authorized to join persons in marriage, from joining in marriage any white person with any…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 24 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 23 regulations which they considered to be necessary for their own safety. It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 25 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 24 more important power—that is, the power of transforming into citizens a numerous class of persons, who in that character would be much more dangerous to the peace and safety of a…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 26 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 25 persons thus separated and rejected from those who formed the sovereignty of the States, were yet intended to be included under the words “free inhabitants,” in the preceding article, to whom…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 27 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 26 at that time was perfectly understood to be confined to the white race; and that they alone constituted the sovereignty in the Government. Congress might, as we before said, have authorized…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 28 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 27 Here the line of distinction is drawn in express words. Persons of color, in the judgment of Congress, were not included in the word citizens, and they are described as another…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 29 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 28 that character, although he does not possess all the rights which may belong to other citizens; as, for example, the right to vote, or to hold particular offices; and that yet,…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 30 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 29 State. And if persons of the African race are citizens of a State, and of the United States, they would be entitled to all of these privileges and immunities in every…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 31 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 30 object was to have the rights of both parties established by judicial decision in the most speedy and least expensive manner. Legrand, therefore, raised no objection to the jurisdiction of the…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 32 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 31 convey property, by the laws of Maryland, although he was not a citizen. But if he was by law still a slave, he could not. It was therefore the duty of…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 33 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 32 of special delegated powers, no authority beyond these two provisions can be constitutionally exercised. The Government of the United States had no right to interfere for any other purpose but that…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 34 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 33 the court is of opinion, that, upon the facts stated in the plea in abatement, Dred Scott was not a citizen of Missouri within the meaning of the Constitution of the…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 35 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 34 whether it be the error of giving judgment in a case over which it had no jurisdiction, or any other material error; and this, too, whether there is a plea in…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 36 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 35 court—which even questions this power in the appellate tribunal. On the contrary, it is the daily practice of this court, and of all appellate courts where they reverse the judgment of…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 37 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 36 to a court of common law. In these cases there is no plea in abatement. And for the same reason, and upon the same principles, where the defect of jurisdiction is…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 38 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 37 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: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 39 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 38 mentioned? And 2. If they were not, is Scott himself free by reason of his removal to Rock Island, in the State of Illinois, as stated in the above admissions? We…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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Image 40 of Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and … 39 to lie, to the exclusion of the other States, by whose combined efforts and common expense the territory was defended and preserved against the claim of the British Government. These difficulties…- Contributor: Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) - Scott, Dred - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Sanford, John F. A. - United States. Supreme Court
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About this Item
Title
- Report of the decision of the Supreme court of the United States, and the opinions of the judges thereof, in the case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford. December term, 1856
Names
- United States. Supreme Court
- Scott, Dred, 1809-1858
- Sanford, John F. A., 1806 or 1807-1857
- Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew), 1791-1872
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Washington, C. Wendell, printer, 1857.
Headings
- - Scott, Dred,--1809-1858
- - Slavery--United States
Notes
- - "This case was brought up by writ of error, from the Circuit court of the United States for the district of Missouri. It was an action of trespass vi et armis instituted in the Circuit court by Scott against Sandford."--p. [3].
- - The points considered in the Supreme court were: Negro citizenship, jurisdiction of the Circuit court and the Missouri compromise act.
- - Lieber Collection copy: In English. Volume with the spine title, "Dred Scott, Echo, Lemmon, Corrie" consists of the Dred Scott vs. John F. Sandford, The Echo Cases, The Lemmon Slave Case reports, and The United States vs. William C. Corrie opinion.
- - Choice/form AACR2: vj39 07-24-96
- - LAC tnb 2020-11-05 no edits (1 card)
- - LAC brd 2019-04-29 no edits (2 cards)
Medium
- 239 p. 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- KF4545.S5 H64 1857
- AC901 .B7 vol. 19, no. 1 Title page partially mutilated.
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- 07008916
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- Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew)
- John Cabell Breckinridge Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Sanford, John F. A.
- Scott, Dred
- United States. Supreme Court