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pretation of the Kansas
Nebraska bill by Senator Douglas.
intended to court the Anti-slavery sentiment.
doctrine of non-intervention in the Territories.
the Dred Scott decision.
the Kansas controversy.
the Lecompton Convention.
the Topeka Constitution.
President Buchanan's position and arguments.
opposition of Senato interfering with the question of slavery in the Territories, had been affirmed by a judicial decision in the Supreme Court of the United States.
In the famous Dred Scott case, a negro demanded his freedom on the ground of legal residence beyond the latitude of 36° 30' N.-the line of the Missouri Compromise.
The Supreme Court prhich, in fact, had produced that list of illustrious American names best known in Europe: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Marshall, Clay, Calhoun, Scott, and Manry.
The fact was that insult to the South had come to be habitual through every expression of Northern opinion; not only in political tirades, but throu