They tell us, too, that we shall acquire, by the decision of the Supreme Court, not one right more than they granted us before — not one foot of slave territory more than we would have acquired without it. How much that will be, let the late history of our Government answer.
Next post: Ohio State Journal, Mar 31, 1857 →
The post above is condensed. From the original, word for word
"Poor deluded mortals, they tell us, too, that 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. How much that will be, let the late history of our Government answer."
Between the posts · the narrator, not the paper
March 27. The loudest secessionist paper in the South looks again at the victory it claimed ten days ago.
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. The line is what the Northern papers "tell us", quoted inside that sarcasm.
Read it in the original — Charleston Mercury, Mar 27, 1857 ↗