Besides, it is a judicial question, which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United States, before whom it is now pending, and will, it is. understood, be speedily and finally settled. To their decision, in common with all good citizens,... Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 70by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890Full view - About this book
| Samuel Eagle Forman - United States - 1921 - 704 pages
...of but little practical importance. Besides it is a judicial question which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United States, before whom...it is understood, be speedily and finally settled." The decision to which Buchanan referred was the one rendered in the case of Dred Scott, a negro who... | |
| John Davison Lawson - Crime - 1921 - 968 pages
...referred to the Issue of slavery In the territories as 'a Judicial question which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United States before whom...It is understood, be speedily and finally settled.' "Two days after his inaugural prophecy the decision was officially announced declaring all slavery... | |
| Bernard Christian Steiner - Biography & Autobiography - 1922 - 574 pages
...matter of little practical importance, Besides it is a judicial question which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United States," before whom...citizens, I shall cheerfully submit, whatever this may be, though it has ever been my individual opinion that, under the Nebraska-Kansas Act, the appropriate... | |
| Bernard Christian Steiner - Judges - 1922 - 580 pages
...it is a judicial question which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United States, 86 before whom it is now pending and will, it is understood,...citizens, I shall cheerfully submit, whatever this may be, though it has ever been my individual opinion that, under the Nebraska-Kansas Act, the appropriate... | |
| Milo Milton Quaife, Joseph Schafer, Edward Porter Alexander - Wisconsin - 1924 - 550 pages
...but little practical importance. Besides, it is a judicial question, which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United States, before whom...citizens, I shall cheerfully submit, whatever this may be. Senate, in which he charged that before coming into office Buchanan approached, or was approached by,... | |
| Edward Channing - United States - 1925 - 668 pages
...the Union as a free State or a slave State, was "a judicial question, which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United States, before whom...their decision, in common with all good citizens" the new President said he should cheerfully submit.1 Three days later, on Saturday, March 7, the Supreme... | |
| Charles Emanuel Martin - Constitutional history - 1925 - 420 pages
...Supreme Court, which would speedily and finally settle the question. "To their decision," he declared, "in common with all good citizens, I shall cheerfully submit, whatever this may be, though it has ever been my individual opinion that, under the Kansas- Nebraska Act, the appropriate... | |
| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - Presidents - 1928 - 780 pages
...practical importance. Besides,' went on Buchanan, 'it is a judicial question, which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United States, before whom...I shall cheerfully submit, whatever this may be.' This was almost exactly what Lincoln, relying on Justice McLean's public statement about the Missouri... | |
| Kansas State Historical Society - Kansas - 1900 - 526 pages
...but little practical importance. Besides, it is a judicial question, which legitimately belongs to the supreme court of the United States, before whom...it is understood, be speedily and finally settled." The decision was rendered March 6, two days after the favorable notice of advance agent Buchanan. The... | |
| 1887 - 980 pages
...question, which legitimately belongs to the Supreme Court of the United States, before whom it isnow pending, and will, it is understood, be speedily and...example, the court announced its decision two days afterwards, — March 6th, 1857. The essential character of the transaction impressed itself upon the... | |
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