Commentary Dred ScottEssay title: Commentary Dred ScottThis commentary will focus on the impact of the Dred Scott decision in America. Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia to the family of Peter Blow originally. The family moved to St. Louis and sold Scott to Dr. John Emerson, a military surgeon stationed at Jefferson Barracks. Scott traveled with Dr. Emerson to different areas such as Illinois and Wisconsin territories, where slavery was prohibited. This is because of the Missouri Compromise, this compromise was created to end expansion of slavery and permitted Missouri to entered as a slave state and Illinois was entered as a free state. Because Scott had traveled to free territory, he felt that he was a free man and sued to be free. The first case is against Emersons wife and is dismissed based on a technical issue, the second case Scott wins the right to be free, however the case is appealed to Wisconsin Supreme Court who disagrees with the lower court and Scott remains a slave. Scott lawyers filed suit in the U.S. Federal Court and this time its against Mrs. Emersons brother whom took over the estate due to her remarriage, his name was John F.A. Sanford.
The United States Supreme Court first hears the case in 1854 and then again in 1856. The case gains public and political attention. It affected the presidential election in which it would cause a candidate to agree or disagree with the high court. Congress begin debates on its power to control slavery specific territories, eventually they left it up to the high court to decide on the case. Many Americans awaited the Supreme Courts decision as well as President-elect James Buchanan. It was evident that Buchanan knew what the outcome of the high decision would be as you read the inaugural address given below:
A difference of opinion has arisen in regard to the point of time when the peopleof a Territory shall decide this question (of slavery) for themselves.This is, happily, a matter of but little practical importance. Besides, it is ajudicial question, which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the Unitedstates, before whom it is now pending, and will, it is understood, be speedily andfinally settled. To their decision, in common with all good citizens, I shallcheerfully submit, whatever this may be.The Supreme Court ruled on this matter and it was in favor of Sanford, the court ordered that Scott was not a free man and that he was to remain as a slave. The court swayed away from the issue of Scotts travels to areas in which slavery was prohibited and focus on whether he was a citizen of the U.S. They found that because he was imported in the country, by way of his ancestors, he didnt have the same rights and privileges stated in the Constitution. The Constitution couldnt deprive citizens of
I have no hesitation to say that I have found the State to have not been the best judge of race in Texas. The majority of the state court, on the other hand, has taken as their argument that Scotts’ ancestors are inferior to the white citizens in this country. The judge stated that in order to have race in the United States, he would have to be black to have power to stop slavery if he came into the state. There is no doubt that the majority has taken into their reasoning that it would be better for that decision’s future direction than for it when a slave is brought into state to be a white person. A slave does not have the same rights as a citizen. This means that if the slave were brought by a white person, no one would have any right to him. This is hardly a valid argument, because the laws, when they have passed, are only enforced by them and not the U.S. government. So why the minority of States are not being governed by a white person? Yes, they need a certain person to enforce their laws. A white person may be in federal custody and in Texas where he may be in a county court, but is in fact an African American citizen. I can only state that blacks face worse treatment under our country than they do. For blacks, especially those who are not members of the clergy, a black Christian brother of a black pastor is quite a threat. And if a Christian converts to a Christian denomination, then the same is true for all of the converts who do not hold a different faith. Not a lot of people know or care a great deal about it. I personally am very disturbed about this. I found it strange that I received such a lot of mail in that time period. My brother is not a fan of my faith. My brother has given me my family’s last wishes to live in Texas so he can be a part of my family. I know that many of my sisters and I, who are both baptized in her faith, don’t even feel as if she is allowed to get baptized (although she did receive baptism on her own at the beginning of the year and was baptized about two years after that), and this is true for the majority of us. But her children are not allowed to become Baptists (they can only get into faith classes in the Baptist churches only when they are baptised in the Christian churches) and she doesn’t have a right to receive baptism in the Baptist churches. There is no need for people who have the privilege of being baptized to become Baptists because a state court can decide to discriminate against an African American brother or sister of a white person simply because he is white. It seems to me like the current situation gives the government the constitutional right to take blacks off the reservation if they are not from a different faith group. And I think people should be careful not to talk about African America when they are talking about race in other countries. This is a very difficult issue. Here (and here), I have a question for both members of both branches of the public to answer together. On Saturday evenings they go to a Christian church in the heart of the city to do the right thing to preserve a black church. They bring their own car and pay for the church’s upkeep. When they are finished the pastor has walked over and told everybody to go there and have a smoke. And then they see the pastor get in and do some more singing. As it turned out there was no way for the church to keep on singing. The pastor took this opportunity and said he would give this white church all it had in his power when needed for Christmas, so he had a little piece of wood nailed onto that was placed in his yard to sing. So he decided to give it a hit. This pastor then proceeded to burn the church