The despatch may not be strictly accurate, but enough is perceived to authorize the opinion: this is the most important decision ever made by any Court in this country. It fortifies as by a wall of brass the rights of the slaveholder in the States and in the common territories.
Original passage & context
"We give these points as we find them summed up in the telegraphic despatch, and this statement of them may not be strictly accurate; but enough is perceived to authorize the opinion that this is the most important decision every made by any Court in this country, and that it fortifies as by a wall of brass the rights of the slaveholder in the States and in the common territories. [...] The idea of the abolitionists, that a slave is free as soon as he touches the soil of a free State, is again exploded"
Between the posts · the narrator, not the paper
March 11. The full opinion is now in the papers. Editors on both sides stop summarizing the holding and start counting what it costs them.
The Standard numbers the holdings one through six off the telegraphic dispatch and warns its own readers the summary "may not be strictly accurate." "every made" is the printed text, for "ever made." A Southern paper drawing the conclusion Northern editors most feared: the free states' soil no longer frees anyone.
Read it in the original — Weekly North Carolina Standard, Mar 11, 1857 ↗