Actually Walt, there is. Your "moderated newsgroup" neglects corroborating documentation of the arrest plot as it was known by Taney himself.
"After the court had adjourned, I went up to the bench and thanked Judge Taney for thus upholding, in its integrity, the writ of habeas corpus. He replied, "Mr. Brown, I am an old man, a very old man" (he had completed his eighty-fourth year), "but perhaps I was preserved for this occasion." I replied, "Sir, I thank God that you were." He then told me that he knew that his own imprisonment had been a matter of consultation, but that the danger had passed, and he warned me, from information he had received, that my time would come...Although this crime [of arresting Taney] was not committed, a criminal precedent had been set and was ruthlessly followed." - George William Brown, Mayor of Baltimore from 1860-61
Actually Walt, there is. Your "moderated newsgroup" neglects corroborating documentation of the arrest plot as it was known by Taney himself.
"After the court had adjourned, I went up to the bench and thanked Judge Taney for thus upholding, in its integrity, the writ of habeas corpus. He replied, "Mr. Brown, I am an old man, a very old man" (he had completed his eighty-fourth year), "but perhaps I was preserved for this occasion." I replied, "Sir, I thank God that you were." He then told me that he knew that his own imprisonment had been a matter of consultation, but that the danger had passed, and he warned me, from information he had received, that my time would come...Although this crime [of arresting Taney] was not committed, a criminal precedent had been set and was ruthlessly followed." - George William Brown, Mayor of Baltimore from 1860-61
There's no proof that it was ever considered to arrest Taney.
It's just part of the neo-reb rant of lies, half truth and deceit. It's a non-fact based rant that you help perpetuate here on FR. If there were anything to the story, you're not the one to suggest it.
Walt
"After the court had adjourned, I went up to the bench and thanked Judge Taney for thus upholding, in its integrity, the writ of habeas corpus. He replied, "Mr. Brown, I am an old man, a very old man" (he had completed his eighty-fourth year), "but perhaps I was preserved for this occasion." I replied, "Sir, I thank God that you were." He then told me that he knew that his own imprisonment had been a matter of consultation...
That's hearsay by definition.
But as Taney was little more than a shill for the slave power, it's not a big surprise that he would accept it.
Of course, you're a shill for the slave power too.
Walt