The three hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty-five slaveholders in this Republic accomplished a great success day before yesterday — as shallow men estimate success. They converted the Supreme Court into a propagandist of human Slavery.
Original passage & context
"The three hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty-five Slaveholders in the Republic, accomplished day before yesterday a great success -- as shallow men estimate success. They converted the Supreme Court of Law and Equity of the United States of America into a propagandist of human Slavery."
The Journal was Thurlow Weed's paper and the closest thing New York Republicans had to an official organ. Counting the slaveholders — 347,525 in the 1850 census — is the Republican argument in miniature: a minority interest capturing a national government.
Read it in the original — Albany Evening Journal, Mar 9, 1857 ↗