[4CJ]

"Indeed in all pri­vate political correspondence, North and South, during those months, plenty is said about Kansas, the Mormons, public lands, hard times; but practically nothing about the judicial pro­nouncement which radical newspapers, preachers, and politi­cians were loudly declaring had prepared the way to spread slav­ery over the whole land, and therefore had convulsed with rage the people of the North." Beveridge believed, according to Bow­ers, that "the biggest historical discovery he had made was that there had been no popular excitement over the decision for al­most a year, and until it was made the object of a campaign attack."

Worth repeating - excellent post!

[capitan_refugio]

"Worth repeating - excellent post!"

Easily refuted. Not worth the bandwidth used to post it.

The Dred Scott decision was widely anticipated and immediately criticized in the newspapers and from the pulpits - outside of the south, of course - gag rules and prohibitions on free expression, you understand.