Britannica said the court's ruling in his case "seemed a mortal blow to the newly created Republican Party"
[DOC] [TLE] Encyclopdia Britannica: Black History [PAR] (March 6, 1857), ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that made slavery legal in ... 
Scott sued for his freedom in the Missouri state courts on the grounds that his ... 
an initial ruling by a lower court which had declared Scott free, and the case, ...