December 5, 2006
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A reversal of the Fourteenth Amendment (Brown v Board stands there) is soon possible. Never forget our past, for we are always in dire neglect of repeating it. The following CNN story highlights the current Court's struggle with Constitutional consideration. That a decisive vote is necessary (Kennedy, of course), undermines common sense across the land. Louisville and Seattle are at the core. Two beautiful cities, on the verge of permanent, historical relevance.
The article appears as follows:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/12/04/race.school/index.html
In response, consider history. Please.
From the Albany Evening Journal, circa 1857, in response to the Dred Scott Decision. Compare and Contrast.
The three hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty-five Slaveholders in the Republic, accomplished day before yesterday a great success — as shallow men estimate success. They converted the Supreme Court of Law and Equity of the United States of America into a propagandist of human Slavery. Fatal day for a judiciary made reputable throughout the world, and reliable to all in this nation, by the learning and the virtues of Jay, Rutledge, Ellsworth, Marshall and Story!
The conspiracy is nearly completed. The Legislation of the Republic is in the hands of this handfull of Slaveholders. The United States Senate assures it to them. The Executive power of the Government is theirs. Buchanan took the oath of fealty to them on the steps of the Capitol last Wednesday. The body which gives the supreme law of the land, has just acceded to their demands, and dared to declare that under the charter of the Nation, men of African descent are not citizens of the United States and can not be — that the Ordinance of 1787 was void — that human Slavery is not a local thing, but pursues its victims to free soil, clings to them wherever they go, and returns with them — that the American Congress has no power to prevent the enslavement of men in the National Territories — that the inhabitants themselves of the Territories have no power to exclude human bondage from their midst — and that men of color can not be suitors for justice in the Courts of the United States!
…All who love Republican institutions and who hate Aristocracy, compact yourselves together for the struggle which threatens your liberty and will test your manhood!
