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Worcester v. Georgia, 31 US 515 (1832)
Response to the plight of the missionaries and the Cherokee was muted outside Georgia. Although newspapers across the nation followed the case, they were more focused on President Jackson's response to the Supreme Court's decision and its reflection on the Court's power, or lack thereof.
Most newspapers (the only real media at that time), incorrectly reported Jackson refused to support the Supreme Court's decision. In fact, there was nothing for Jackson to do unless Georgia disobeyed the Court's only substantive order - to free the missionaries.
As is the case in politics today, some journalists supported Jackson's position and urged him to ignore the Court, stressing the President was independent of the judiciary and need not cooperate unless he wanted to. Others, such as the editor of the Connecticut Mirror, criticized Jackson for disempowering a branch of government: "What is the highest court in America worth, if its decisions may be contemmed-disputed-resisted-and its authorized, delegated powers set to naught?"
The New York Daily Advertiser hysterically called for Jackson's impeachment, "...either he must be impeached...or the Union of the States will be dissolved."
Back in the South, the citizens of Georgia supported their state, resented Federal interference, and scorned the missionaries imprisoned for not holding a state license to live on Cherokee land. It doesn't appear anyone gave much thought to the Cherokee or their rights.
The Macon Advertiser published a story that demonstrated Georgia's defiant attitude toward outside interference, and her pride in successfully thwarting the Court's mandate: "[The missionaries] have been placed where they deserved to be," the editor crowed before denigrating the defense attorneys and the Court, writing "...not all the eloquence of a Wirt or a Sergeant [the attorneys], nor the decision or power of the Supreme Court can take [the missionaries] from [prison] unless the State chooses to give them up."
The general mood in Georgia was reportedly angry and hostile.
Worcester v. Georgia didn't exactly cause a national scandal, and probably had less impact the farther one traveled from Georgia. It seems likely most Americans reacted in accordance to their beliefs, which would have been influenced by the way the event was reported in their local newspapers and by the opinions of respected members of the community.
In any event, Worcester was soon overshadowed by the "Nullification Crisis," a movement among the states, begun by South Carolina, to declare federal law null and void and to apply their own interpretations to the US Constitution.
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