...North to acquiesce to the controversial Dred Scott decision (which the Post condemned as making slavery "a Federal institution, the common patrimony and shame of all the states,") because that decision would have "no practical effects injurious to our tranquility, or to our institutions."...

...New York Evening Post, had transformed what had once been the South 's "peculiar institution" into "a federal institution, the common patrimony and shame of all the states." According to the Milwaukee Sentinel, the government of the United States now stood "before the world...

...wrote William Cullen Bryant, slavery was no longer the "peculiar institution" of f1fteen states but "a Federal institution, the common patrimony and shame of all the States. . . . Hereafter, wherever our . . . flag floats, it is the flag of slavery. . . . Are we to accept,...