In melancholy contrast with the monumental judgment of the English Chief-Justice are judicial decisions in our own country, especially that masterpiece of elaborate inhumanity, the judgment of our late Chief-Justice in the Dred Scott case.
Sumner contrasts the enlightened judgment of English law with the inhumane decisions in American courts, particularly the Dred Scott case.
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