TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 13 P29

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 13 P29 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 266 CIVIL RIGHTS PRIMARY DOCUMENTS SLAVERY DRED SCOTT V. SANDFORD jury in the four States which constitute my circuit which have not sustained this law where the evidence required them to sustain it. And it is proper that I should also say that more cases have arisen in my circuit by reason of its extent and locality than in all other parts of the Union. This has been done to vindicate the sovereign rights of the Southern States and protect the legal interests of our brethren of the South. Let these facts be contrasted with the case now before the court. Illinois has declared in the most solemn and impressive form that there shall be neither slavery not involuntary servitude in that State and that any slave brought into it with a view of becoming a resident shall be emancipated. And effect has been given to this provision of the Constitution by the decision of the Supreme Court of that State. With a full knowledge of these facts a slave is brought from Missouri to Rock Island in the State of Illinois and is retained there as a slave for two years and then taken to Fort Snelling where slavery is prohibited by the Missouri Compromise Act and there he is detained two years longer in a state of slavery. Harriet his wife was also kept at the same place four years as a slave having been purchased in Missouri. They were then removed to the State of Missouri and sold as slaves and in the action before us they are not only claimed as slaves but a majority of my brethren have held that on their being returned to Missouri the status of slavery attached to them. I am not able to reconcile this result with the respect due to the State of Illinois. Having the same rights of sovereignty as the State of Missouri in adopting a constitution I can perceive no reason why the institutions of Illinois should not receive the same consideration as those of Missouri. Allowing to my brethren the same right of judgment that I exercise myself I must be permitted to say that it seems to me the

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