 But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 6301911Full view - About this book
 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...disturbed only by amendments of the Constitution as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision...we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents, according... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...disturbed only by amendments of the Constitution, as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision...we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents, according... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...disturbed only by amendments of the Constitution, as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision...we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. " Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...disturbed only by amendments of the Constitution, as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision...we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it, Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents, according... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...disturbed only by amendments of the Constitution, as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision...we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions arc of greater or less authority as precedents, according... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...disturbed only by amendments of the Constitution, as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott .decision...we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. " Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...disturbed only by amendments of the Constitution as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision...we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents according... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 526 pages
...disturbed only by amendments of the Constitution as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision...we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents according... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - Presidents - 1890 - 522 pages
...disturbed only by amendments of the Constitution as provided in that instrument itself. More than this would be revolution. But we think the Dred Scott decision...we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it. Judicial decisions are of greater or less authority as precedents according... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...of the decision, declared Dred Scott free, and resisted the authority of his master over him ? . . . But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous....we shall do what we can to have it overrule this. We offer no resistance to it." The condition of the black man, Lincoln asserted, is worse now than... | |
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