From (America in 1857, Kenneth M. Stampp, Oxford University Press, 1990, p. 104) "Republicans responded with angry defiance....called the decision 'sheer blasphemy'...an infamous libel on our government...a lasting disgrace to the court from which it issued, and deeply humilating to every American citizen. It was, according to the New Yok Tribune, entitled to just so much moral weidght as would be the judgment ...of those congregated in any Washington barroom. A Boston Republican asserted that the opinion of this proslavery Court deserved no more respect than ...any other sectional caucus of partisans. The Chicago Tribune branded Taney's opinion 'shocking to the sensibilities...."
"In Ohio the legislature not only denounced the decision but adopted measures against slaveholding or the kidnapping of free blacks, and the supreme court (state) ruled that any slave brought into Ohio would automatically be emancipated. " (p. 105, parenthesis mine)
"Republicans...attacked the Court for infringing upon the legislative authority of Congress" (p. 107)
"Senator Trumbull of Illinois appealed to a power higher than the Court, 'The People', who would in due time reform this sectional court....." (p. 107)
"One way or another, the Chicago Tribune promised, the people would recover their lawmaking prerogatives---and if the ousting of a Bench full of Pro-Slavery judges is necessary to a resumption of this right, let it be done with as little delay as possible." (p. 107)
It was this response of the North that Jefferson addressed when he said,"Instead of accepting the decision of this then august tribunal--the ultimate authority in the interpretation of constitutional questions--as conclusive....it was flouted, denounced, and utterly disregarded by the Northern agitators, and served only to stimulate the intensity of their sectional hostility." (Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, A DA CAPO Press,1990, p. 71)