To: TexConfederate1861
Though I agree that the Dred Scott decision was wrong, I don't think that one judicial mistake makes him a bad judge! That was not a minor mistake - it went to the very foundations of the moral principles of our republic - the very value of human life.
288 posted on
01/16/2004 2:52:39 PM PST by
exmarine
( sic semper tyrannis)
To: exmarine
Yes, but you must remember that by the standards of that day, many thought negroes to be inferior. Even Abe Lincoln...
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