New York Daily Tribune, August 10, 1860
Article titled “Mr. Douglas, The Republicans, and the Dred Scott Decision.” Contains the report on the Dred Scott Decision, and ways to eventually overturn it. “The People of the United States, acting through the ballot box, are the ultimate tribunal. They make and modify legislatures, laws, constitutions, courts. While, then, we render such objections to the Judgments of the Supreme Court, Dred Scot included, as the Constitution and laws require of us, we deny to that Court any rightful authority or actual power to foreclose the action of the People on questions essentially political, or pertaining to the National policy or distribution and use of power. What the Court bids us do or enjoins us from doing as subjects of the State, we must heed; but as voters, as ultimate law-makers, we are beyond and above the power.” It continues from there, ending with “we expect to secure in the election of Abraham Lincoln”