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Reverdy Johnson, and a U.S. Senator,
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Henry Geyer, were the lawyers.
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Reverdy Johnson made the startling statements
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in the arguments before the Supreme Court
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and called for a--he made startling statements
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and he called for a broader pronouncement from the court.
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He urged Justice Taney, the Chief Justice,
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and the court to render a big decision here and
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try once and for all,
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to put this--as Lincoln called it--slavery agitation,
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this whole slavery in the Western Territories problem to rest.
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The Supreme Court after all is supreme.