The United States Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case stated that since Scott was African American, he was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue. The decision also declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820, legislation which restricted slavery in certain territories, unconstitutional. The pro-abolition newspapers in the North denounced the decision, but other northern newspapers did not necessarily do so. This article printed by the Franklin Democrat in Greenfield, Massachusetts, commends the decision as well considered and consistant with the Constitution. The weekly newspaper that was published from 1842 to 1860.
Franklin Democrat. “The Decision of the Supreme Court.” March 16, 1857. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l05-112/. Accessed on November 23, 2024.
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