These slave “fathers” killed and tortured their “children,” just as the wolf found a way to justify himself by eating the newborn lamb, undeterred by his innocence . Slaves suffer further mistreatment through the three-fifths compromise, in which three out of five slaves count as citizens relative to the state's population; the aforementioned compromise allowed southerners to ignore the human rights of the slave, in a legal sense. In the Dred Scott case, a famous case in which a slave sued for his freedom, Chief Justice Roger Taney declared, “Dred Scott had no standing in the court because blacks could not be citizens of the United States.” In the years before the war, an abolitionist movement was emerging in the North that spoke out openly against slavery, but it was not yet the popular idea. Although most Northerners were against slavery, they still had issues with race, which made them more supportive of slavery not spreading to the North.