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To: Rabble
Lincoln attempted to throw Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney into prison and had an arrest warrant issued for his arrest.

The problem with your link is that if you read it closely Adams is admitting that there is no concrete evidence that supports the claim that Lincoln issued an arrest warrant for Taney. No support in the archives of the U.S. Marshal;s Service. No support in the Lieber papers. Nothing but opinion and speculation and paranoid fears without justification. The simple truth is that Taney remained on the Supreme Court bench as Chief Justice until his death in 1863.

11 posted on 11/27/2005 3:27:13 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
"The problem with your link is that if you read it closely Adams is admitting that there is no concrete evidence that supports the claim that Lincoln issued an arrest warrant for Taney. No support in the archives of the U.S. Marshal;s Service. No support in the Lieber papers. Nothing but opinion and speculation and paranoid fears without justification"

You seem to have ignored the personal papers of Federal Marshall Ward Hill Laman, located at the the Huntington library in Pasadena.

You also ignored Baltimore Mayor George Brown's book regarding the conversation he had with Chief Justice Taney following the Merryman decision. Mr. Taney states to Brown "He then told me that he knew his own imprisonment had been a matter of consultation, but the danger had passed, and he warned me from information he had received, that my time would come.".

What about Justice Curtis's reference to Lincoln's plan to arrest the Chief Justice: "He wrote the dissenting opinion in Dred Scott, which Lincoln carried in his pocket while debating with Stephen A. Douglas. He resigned from the Court after a dispute with Taney over that case. Yet he admired the Chief Justice for his Merryman decision, and makes reference to the plan to arrest Taney, calling it a "Great Crime."".

As Mr. Adams states "And so the case stands, the Presidential warrant to arrest the Chief Justice is on solid ground. It represents just one more tough nut the apologists and gate keepers have to live with; it cannot be swept under the rug, so to speak, as a fabrication.".

61 posted on 11/27/2005 10:01:28 PM PST by Rabble (Just When is John F sKerry going to release his USNR military records ?)
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To: Non-Sequitur
The simple truth is that Taney remained on the Supreme Court bench as Chief Justice until his death in 1863

So Lincoln had him killed?? /sarcasm

89 posted on 11/28/2005 2:49:02 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell)
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