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Excerpt from Historical and Legal Examination: Of That Part of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case; Which Declares the Unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act, and the Self-Extension of the Constitution to Territories, Carrying Slavery Along With It

Government bill, extending certain enumerated acts of Congress to the territories - such acts as Congress thinks proper to extend -no act of Congress obtaining force in a territory, unless ex pressly spread over it. Mr. Walker's bill conformed to this practice. It contained the usual list of acts which were suitable to territories for the list is nearly always the same.

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The writer of this "Examination" was breaking down under the approaches of a terrible attack, while he was still engaged in writing it, and was prostrate before it was finished, leaving some heads untouched, and the outline of others only sketched. Among these last was the head which related to the temporary government in Florida, and the transactions under it; General Jackson being Governor, and commissioned (according to the act under which be was appointed) with the powers of Captain-General and Intendant of Cuba, the Floridan having been a dependency of that Captain-Generalship. The "Examination" states (and all whose memory or home reading goes back twenty-five years, well know the fact), that the power of Captain-General and Intendant was no barren sceptre in Jackson's band; that he found occasion to use the power, and did so with the energy which belonged to his nature, and was sustained by Mr. Monroe's Administration. But the history of the transactions was not gone into, and the general assertion remained without the justification which this history would give it. That history is now supplied, and will be found in the Abridged Debates of Congress, text and notes (volume VII., now about ready for the press); and is surely of a character and of an authority to put an end to the "Opinion" which nullifies the Missouri Compromise Act, and self-extends the Constitution to territories.

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