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   Roger B. Taney

   Taney personally administered the oath of office to Lincoln, his most prominent critic, on March 4, 1861. ... Instead, Sumner proposed that a vacant spot, not a bust of Taney, be left in the courtroom "to speak in warning to all who would betray liberty!"
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   American Civil War

   Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision said that slaves were "so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect", and that slavery could spread into the territories. ... Northern politician Abraham Lincoln said, "this question of Slavery was more important than any other; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present."
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   Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858

   Lincoln said that Chief Justice Roger Taney (in his Dred Scott decision) and Stephen Douglas were opposing Thomas Jefferson's self-evident truth, dehumanizing blacks and preparing the public mind to think of them as only property. ... ↑ First Debate: Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858 - Abraham Lincoln said, "Then what is necessary for the nationalization of slavery?
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   History of the United States (1849–1865)

   Lincoln said that Chief Justice Roger Taney was the first person who said that the Declaration of Independence did not apply to blacks and that Douglas was the second. ... Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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   Taney Arrest Warrant

   The arrest order is said to have been in response to Taney's Circuit Judge ruling in Ex parte Merryman, which found Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus to be unconstitutional. ... Abraham Lincoln
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   Origins of the American Civil War

   Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision said that slaves were "so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect", and that slavery could spread into the territories even if the majority of people in the territories were anti-slavery. ... On March 4, 1865, Lincoln said in his Second Inaugural Address that slavery was the cause of the War:
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   Slavery in the United States

   The decision, written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, barred slaves and their descendants from citizenship. ... Abraham Lincoln on slavery
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   Johns Hopkins

   During the Civil War Johns Hopkins was a supporter of Abraham Lincoln as shown again in the 1862 letter Johns Hopkins wrote requesting Lincoln to keep General John Wool and the Union troops stationed under him in Maryland and signed "your servant" and "friend". ... Both were friends of Supreme Court Justice Taney.
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   Salmon P. Chase

   Partially to placate the Radical wing of the party following the resignation, however, Lincoln mentioned Chase as an able Supreme Court nominee. ... | Preceded by | Roger B. Taney |
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    Dred Scott v. Sandford

    It was noted by William Rehnquist that the decision in Scott, written and championed by Taney, destroyed Taney's reputation and made him bitterly hated. ... ↑ Abraham Lincoln's Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, June 26, 1857

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