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CARRYING OUT THE DRED SCOTT DECISION. Mr. Thomas Howland, a respectable colored man of Providence, being about to try his fortune in Liberia, sent to the State Department at Washington for a passport. His application, says the Journal, was sent back with the following answer, without date or signature: the officials seeming to regard it as an insult that a man, born on American soil, a citizen and a voter of one of the States of the confederacy, should have the presumption to ask for a certificate of his nationality: –
‘Mr. Martin must certainly be aware that passports are not issued to persons of African extraction. Such persons are not deemed citizens of the United States. See the case of Dred Scott, recently decided by the Supreme Court.’
