. Young folk's history of the war for the union . riedback to Missouri he had beenwhipped for some offence, andhe then sued his master fordamages, claiming that his resi-dence in Illinois and Minnesotahad made him a free man. Hismaster denied that he had anyright to sue him, because hewas a slave and therefore not acitizen. Dred Scott won his case in the court in Missouri, buthis master appealed it and in time it came before the SupremeCourt at Wasliington. This court decided against Dred declared: 1. That Dred Scott was a slave and not a citizen ofMissouri; 2. That his residence in M
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . riedback to Missouri he had beenwhipped for some offence, andhe then sued his master fordamages, claiming that his resi-dence in Illinois and Minnesotahad made him a free man. Hismaster denied that he had anyright to sue him, because hewas a slave and therefore not acitizen. Dred Scott won his case in the court in Missouri, buthis master appealed it and in time it came before the SupremeCourt at Wasliington. This court decided against Dred declared: 1. That Dred Scott was a slave and not a citizen ofMissouri; 2. That his residence in Minnesota did not make , because the Missouri Compromise Act of 1820 was uncon-stitutional and void, and could not keep a slave-owner from,settling in any Territory with his property; 3. That Congresshad no moic right to prohibit the carrying of slaves into anyState or Territory than it had to prohibit the carrying of anyother property, for slaves were property under the is important to understand this decision, because it. James Buchanan. 1857-59.] BRED SVOTT CASE. 27 resulted in a division of tlie Democratic Party, and finally ledto the great Civil War, By the Missouri Compromise slaveryhad been prohibited in a i)art of the territory of the UnitedStates, the question being left open in the remaining part. Bythe Com})romise of 185U the JMissouri Conii)romise had beendone away with, and all the territory of the United States hadbeen thrown open to slavery, subject to the principle of Scpiatteror Popular Sovereignty. But the Dred Scott deaision Aventstill further, and declared the right of slave-owners to carrytheir property (slaves) into any State or Territory of the UnitedStates. Though not liking this decision of the Supreme Court,the greater part of the Northern people were willing to obey itas the law of the land; but there were many Avho were as un-willing to receive it as law as they had been to acknowledge theFugitive Slave Law. Even a large part o
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