So once again we have another case of fraud perpetrated by El Capitan to artificially bolster his case. This guy abuses his own chosen sources almost as much as he abuses Supreme Court decisions by appending extraneous material to their rulings!
Of course the Northern reaction to Taney's tainted ruling in Merryman was hostile. Taney was a southern partisan whose reputation in the North was already badly damaged by Dred Scott.
You asked for my evidence that Merryman was a "friend and neighbor" of Taney's. You got it. In spades. So stop the cowardly whining.