It was received throughout the North with scorn and indignation.

It entered at once into the political discussions of the people, and remained there until, with all other issues on the slavery question, it was remanded to the arbitrament of war.
Five of the judges--an absolute majority of the court--were Southern men, and had always been partisan Democrats of the State-rights' school.

People at once remembered that every other class of lawyers in the South had for thirty years been rigidly excluded from the bench.

John J.Crittenden had been nominated and rejected by a Democratic Senate.

George E.Badger of North Carolina had shared the same fate.