The Dred Scott decision was 7-2. The court majority wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Unless Lincoln planned to have them arrested. I guess that was a real possibility.
To change the equilibrium of the country, what Lincoln needed was a war.
But first, he needed the pretext for a war.
One man wrote the decision and expanded it far beyond the original matter before the court. Challenging those comments of Taney's decision that were made in dicta would be a given for the Lincoln administration. Who knows how the court would have gone depending on the case?
Unless Lincoln planned to have them arrested. I guess that was a real possibility.
Not a possibility at all. But I forget that you sign on to that whole "Lincoln was going to have Taney arrested" myth.
To change the equilibrium of the country, what Lincoln needed was a war.
Even if that's true, when it came to starting a war Davis beat him to it.
So yet again jeffersondem claims that Civil War was "all about slavery".
Why do I think he won't maintain this position for long?