To be noted, is President Buchanan was a Democrat and Wikipedia describes his basic problem as:
"...In his inaugural address, besides promising not to run again, Buchanan referred to the territorial question as "happily, a matter of but little practical importance" since the Supreme Court was about to settle it "speedily and finally." Two days later, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the Dred Scott Decision, asserting that Congress had no constitutional power to exclude slavery in the territories. Much of Taney’s written judgment is widely interpreted as obiter dictum — statements made by a judge that are unnecessary to the outcome of the case, which in this case, while they delighted Southerners, created a furor in the North. Buchanan was widely believed to have been personally involved in the outcome of the case, with many Northerners recalling Taney whispering to Buchanan during Buchanan's inauguration. Buchanan wished to see the territorial question resolved by the Supreme Court. To further this, Buchanan personally lobbied his fellow Pennsylvanian Justice Robert Cooper Grier to vote with the majority in that case to uphold the right of owning slave property. Abraham Lincoln denounced him as an accomplice of the Slave Power, which Lincoln saw as a conspiracy of slave owners to seize control of the federal government and nationalize slavery. Buchanan's friends did a poor job defending him...."
As usual, the Democrats used SCOTUS to pass the necessary legislation to satisfy the Democrats. Note the Democrats affirmed slavery and could not be shaken from it untill 700,000 fell.
Gives one pause to wonder! Things don't change. Slavery then, political serfdom now! SCOTUS to write the law!
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NEVER FORGET
Sen. TED KENNEDY stated on 'FoX News Sunday' that American Soldiers have been in Iraq longer than they were in South Vietnam. We've been in Iraq only 3 1/2 years.
http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20030324antiwar0324p7.asp
(See Photo taken at our March 23, 2003 OSCAR 'God Bless America' Freep Demonstration just days after our entering Iraq)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
(See 5th Photo down of Sen. TED KENNEDY taken at our 1st Cavalry's Division Headquarters in October 1965 in South Vietnam's Central Hightlands. American Combat Forces were out of Vietnam by 1973. That's an 8 year spread, Folks.)
Any TV Lie to fool the American People with will do, I guess, for Sen. TED KENNEDY..?
NEVER FORGET
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