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Speech on the Dred Scott Decision - Explain the reference to 'the authors of that instrument did not intend to include Negroes.'
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Speech on the Dred Scott Decision Explain the reference to 'the authors of that instrument did not intend to include Negroes.' This Speech was delivered in June 26th 1857, by Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had recently joined the Republican Party, having been in the House of Representatives since 1846. The Speech was made following the decision by the Supreme Court about a slave (Dred Scott) who was requesting liberty, based on the fact that he had travelled through a free-state and a free territory (Wisconsin) with his army surgeon owner who had since died in 1843, leaving Scott as the property of a relative. With the help of anti-slavery lawyers, Scott took his case before the Missouri courts, claiming he was free having lived in a Free State and Free Territory. The case took a long time and was taken to the Missouri Supreme court who voted against him. His lawyers then took...
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