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"we shall acquire, by the decision of the Supreme Court, not one right more than they granted to us before -- not one foot of slave territory more than we would have acquired without it."

Three weeks on, the most extreme Southern paper in the country turns on the victory it had just claimed. Its argument is that a court opinion changes nothing on the ground, and that the South is being lulled by "Union-savers" into mistaking a paper triumph for security. Written as sustained mock-scripture — the millennium has come, peace reigns, and none of it is real.

Read it in the original — Charleston Mercury, Mar 27, 1857 ↗

""Who are those neighbors we are commanded to love as ourselves? [...] Or is it the African slave, who is not our neighbor is any one sense of the word, as applied to the great commandment?" Who made Mr. Buchanan or his mouth-piece, a judge or divider of races, and a perverter of Scripture truth? Its inspiration comes not from above, for St. Paul distinctly declares that "God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the whole earth,""

The fight moves to scripture. The Washington Union was Buchanan's administration organ; the Journal answers it with Acts 17:26 and sends it to read Matthew 25 and Luke 10. "is any one sense" is the printed text, for "in any one sense."

Read it in the original — Ohio State Journal, Mar 31, 1857 ↗