Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.
But today it is the North that lauds the Court, the South that damns. Today it is the South that talks of impeachment and nullification; after Dred Scott — until Lincoln went to the White House ...
The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court ... or a Citizen ...