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.
Original passage & context
"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 ↗