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Entered according to Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine
BY CALLAGHAN AND COMPANY,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.
DAVID ATWOOD, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER,
MADISON, WIS.
Annual Message of December 2, 1856.- Uncertainty of Parties.—
Buchanan's Difficult Position.- Buchanan's Blindness.- The
Inaugural Address.— The Address and the Dred Scott Decis-
ion.- History of the Development of the Federal Supreme
Court. Slavery and the Supreme Court of the United States.-
The Dred Scott Case.- History of the Dred Scott Decision.—
Justice Wayne's Statement.- Taney's Statement of the Case
and His Hypotheses -- Can Persons of Color Become Citi-
zens? The Decision Goes Beyond the Record.― Taney's Soph-
isms on the Jurisdiction of Appellate Courts.- Taney and the
Constitution on the Question of Property.-The Decision a
Political Enormity
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CHAPTER II.
THE LECOMPTON CONVENTION.
Split in the Democratic Party.- The Cabinet.- The Situation in
Kansas.- Calling of the Constitutional Convention.- Gov-
ernor Walker.- The Census. --Walker's Intermediation.-- Elec-
tions to the Convention.-- Buchanan's Letter of the 12th of
July to Walker.- Buchanan's Letter of August 15th to the
Connecticut Clergy.- Adjournment of the Convention.- The
Fraudulent Election Lists.-- Buchanan's Attitude towards
Walker. -- Activity of the Convention.-- The Lecompton Con-
stitution.-- Buchanan's Embarrassment. Stanton Calls the
Legislature
CHAPTER III.
THE ANNUAL MESSAGE OF DECEMBER 8, 1857.
The Message on the Economic Situation.- The New Economic Life in the United States.- Railway Construction.- The Bank-
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