The great fact it establishes is that Slavery is National. Until different Judges reverse this wicked judgment, the Constitution is nothing better than the bulwark of inhumanity. Auctions of black men may be held in front of Faneuil Hall.
Original passage & context
"the great fact which it establishes -- the fact that Slavery is National; and that, until that remote period when different Judges, sitting in this same Court, shall reverse this wicked and false judgment, the Constitution of the United States is nothing better than the bulwark of inhumanity and oppression. [...] auctions of black men may be held in front of Faneuil Hall, and the slave-ship, protected by the guns of United States frigates, may land its dusky cargo at Plymouth Rock."
Greeley's Tribune had the largest circulation of any Republican paper in the country. The Faneuil Hall image is not rhetoric for its own sake: the Lemmon case, then working its way toward the same Court, asked whether a slaveholder could hold slaves in transit through New York. Everyone expected the Court to say yes.
Read it in the original — New-York Daily Tribune, Mar 11, 1857 ↗