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This has been obvious since 1865. We only have a United States because self-educated Abraham Lincoln picked up the pieces left by elite New Englanders like Buch
by erosenbe0 4y ago
This has been obvious since 1865. We only have a United States because self-educated Abraham Lincoln picked up the pieces left by elite New Englanders like Buchanan and the justices who decided Dred Scott.
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoThat's a nice quip. If only it were true. Of Buchanan and the nine justices involved in Dred Scott, only one was a New Englander and he was one of the two dissenters. Both dissenters were educated in New England but only one from the majority. On the other hand, the list includes five Southerners, two Pennsylvanians and three from Dickinson College. * James Buchanan - Pennsylvania, educated at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania Majority from Dred Scott: * Roger B. Taney - Maryland, Dickinson * James Moore Wayne - Georgia, educated at what later became Princeton in New Jersey * John Catron - Tennessee, self-educated * Peter V. Daniel - Virginia, one year at Princeton, then self-educated * Samuel Nelson - New York, Middlebury College in Vermont * Robert Cooper Grier - Pennsylvania, Dickinson * John Archibald Campbell - Georgia/Alabama, University of Georgia Dissenters in Dred Scott: * John McLean - Ohio, Harvard * Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Massachusetts, Harvard