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Title	Missouri Historical Review, Volume 63 Issue 3, April 1969
Volume	63
Issue	3
Month	April
Year	1969
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2008
ISSN	0026-6581

Title	Page 317
Page Number	317
Article Title	Was the Dred Scott Case Valid?
Author	Ehrlich, Walter
Subject	African Americans; Legal
County	St. Louis
Volume	63
Issue	3
Month	April
Year	1969
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009
ISSN	0026-6582
Transcription	Was the Dred Scott Case Valid? BY WALTER EHRLICH* Chief Justice Roger B. Taney Of the many perplexing questions which historians have faced, one of the most intriguing is that of the genuineness of the famous Dred Scott case. When Chief Justice Roger B. Taney announced the decision of the Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, some persons who disagreed with that decision immediately contended that the case was fictitious and that it had been deliberately contrived by one side or the other only to bring about a judicial ruling either for or against slavery.1 Yet none of the critics presented sufficient evidence to support the charge. Indeed, it seems that these allegations essentially were politically inspired outbursts by individuals who ♦Walter Ehrlich teaches history at Horton Watkins (Ladue) High School in St. Louis County and is an associate professor of History in the Evening Division of the University of Missouri, St. Louis. In 1950, he received a Ph.D degree in History from Washington University, St. Louis. This article first appeared in The Journal of American History, Vol. LV (September, 1968), No. 2, and is reprinted here with the permission of the Organization of American Historians. i One of the severest criticisms of the decision and one of the most bitter assaults upon the Supreme Court came from Horace Greeley's New York Daily Tribune. Such criticism also came from the Washington National Era, the North American and United States Gazette of Philadelphia, and the New York Herald. 317

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