Commentary: Truth blown away in sugarcoated 'Gone With the Wind'

sacbee ^ | 11-13-04

[nolu chan]

In 1864, John Merryman fathered a male child

Something Abe Lincoln and David Derickson couldn't do out at the cottage.

[nolu chan]

But the NYT did say, "We will concede, too, for the sake of the argument, that the power to suspend this writ exists only in Congress...."

Such was common knowledge, even at the NYT.

[4CJ]

In 1864, John Merryman fathered a male child, who died in infancy. The child's name was Roger Brooke Taney Merryman. Merryman must have been very grateful the Chief Justice wasn't able to spring him from jail.

On 4 Jun 1862, the Maryland Legislature REVOKED Merryman's commission as a Lieutenant in the Maryland County Horse Guards. High society wasn't so high.

[4CJ]

"We will concede, too, for the sake of the argument, that the power to suspend this writ exists only in Congress...."

Which validates Taney's OFFICIAL SC opinion, and destroys the arguement of bias.

[capitan_refugio]

Old, bad, habits die hard.

[capitan_refugio]

That was the Unionist legislature. Merryman was on the wrong side.

[capitan_refugio]

Have you been reading Playgirl again?

[Non-Sequitur]

Lincoln should have read it himself before he sent those sailors from New York and that civilian Fox to start a war in Charleston.

What section of the Constitution did he violate by sending the ships to resupply Sumter?

[capitan_refugio]

Was that reply intended for #2314?

[capitan_refugio]

"Maryland had not seceded.
The Laws of War cannot apply under such circumstance."

Sure they do. The Laws of War applied when Lee rolled into Sharpsburg in 1862 and through the state on the way to defeat at Gettysburg in 1863. Just as they did in 1861.

You can chant your mantra over and over again - it's not going to make your story any more thruthful.

[capitan_refugio]

"... or close personal friends."

An exaggeration on your part.

[4CJ]

An exaggeration on your part.

Taney was a friend and neighbor of John Merryman, and should have recused himself from the proceedings. Even then, once Taney learned that the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus had been suspended, he should have realized that he no longer had any jurisdiction.

1,428 posted on 11/26/2004 9:12:53 PM EST by capitan_refugio

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I can certainly quote part of it for you:

"In the case of John Merriman [sic], the interposition of Chief Justice Taney can only be regarded as at once officious and improper .... Judge Taney presents the ungracious spectacle of a judicial and the military authority of the United States at variance, the soldier eager to punish, and the jurist eager to exculpate a traitor. The antithesis might have been very easily avoided; and an impression that the zeal of the Justice might have been less fervent, had not the prisoner been a citizen of his own State, a neighbor, and a personal friend, would not have countenanced." (From Rehnquist, pg 35) [position advocated by CR]

1,474 posted on 11/27/2004 12:59:39 AM EST by capitan_refugio

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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.

1,546 posted on 11/27/2004 2:43:28 PM EST by capitan_refugio

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I believe the term is "the chain of custody." Lincoln seemed not to have a problem with Cadwalader's actions. The idea of suspending the privilege of the writ was so partisan judges like Taney could not spring their treasonable friends.

1,630 posted on 11/28/2004 2:15:40 AM EST by capitan_refugio

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Taney's actions and attitude are perfectly consistent with a partisan judge trying to spring a friend, rather one who is interested investigating the validity of a claim that cripples his authority.

1,710 posted on 11/29/2004 2:38:44 PM EST by capitan_refugio

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Taney was a southern partisan. He should have recused himself from sitting on the case of a friend and neighbor.

1,774 posted on 11/30/2004 12:46:31 PM EST by capitan_refugio

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Was Merryman a "personal friend of Taney"? You have provided nothing to refute the claim and I have provided a list of reasons to believe that such was quite likely the case.

2,173 posted on 12/03/2004 4:35:14 AM EST by capitan_refugio

[rustbucket]

Oak Alley Plantation. Been there, seen that.

[capitan_refugio]

Exactly how many times did I write "close personal friend"?

The correct answer is, "What is NONE?"

Stop your exaggerations. You are just wasting bandwidth like your cowardly friend.

[capitan_refugio]

It is called a "death vigil." The wound was mortal and the first doctors (Charles Leal and Charles Taft) to see it realized that was the case.

The scene pictured is incorrect. The bed Lincoln was carried to was too short for his frame and the room was lit by a single gas light. Lincoln was arranged diagonally on the bed, with his head toward the door and his feet over the edge of the opposite corner of the bed. The room was tiny, so small in fact, that Sec. Stanton had to set up a post in the adjoining room.

A total of sixteen doctors would see Lincoln that night, including the Surgeon General Joseph Barnes and the Lincoln family physician, Robert Stone. All of them realized the wound was fatal.

The sad fact behind Lincoln's death was that the more radical Republicans were able to use the assassination to further punish the south, beyond the moderate Reconstruction advocated by the late President.

Tough break, huh?