The Supreme Court of the United States, consisting wholly of trained and
successful corporation lawyers, affirmed the proceeding and President
Cleveland says that they have “written the concluding words of this
history.”
Did the Supreme Court of the United States write the “concluding words”
in the history of chattel slavery when it handed down Chief Justice
Taney’s decision that black men had “no rights that the white man was
bound to respect?”
These “concluding words” will but hasten the overthrow of wage slavery
as the “concluding words” of the same Supreme Court in 1857 hastened the
overthrow of chattel slavery.
The railroad corporations would rather have destroyed their property and
seen Chicago perish than see the American Railway Union triumphant in as
noble a cause as ever prompted sympathetic, manly men to action in this
world.