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To: DoodleDawg
Denied it? He didn't even mention it. Feel free to read it for yourself: Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D.: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States It's actually a pretty interesting read. Taney apologized for almost nothing, so if he really thought Lincoln was going to arrest him I have a hard time believing he would have left that part out. Taney approached Samuel Tyler some time in 1862 to write his memoires. It's all there in the book.

Taney was silent on the matter in his memoirs.

Silence does not prove the negative as you are trying to claim.

Why do you suppose that several other sources - three biographies and one autobiography - have nothing to say on any arrest warrant claims?

Why do you not read the link I have already posted? It answered your question directly. I even copied the text here for you to read. You obviously did not.

93 posted on 01/23/2022 7:14:58 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird
Taney was silent on the matter in his memoirs.

Of course. Tyler made the whole book up out of whole cloth, aided and abetted by Taney's family and friends. Makes perfect sense. </sarcasm>

Silence does not prove the negative as you are trying to claim.

If your purpose is to write an accurate and detailed biography of someone then you would not leave important information out unless there was no real evidence that it happened to begin with. If one biographer left the claim out one might easily suspect bias on their part. But all of them? And Taney himself?

Why do you not read the link I have already posted? It answered your question directly. I even copied the text here for you to read. You obviously did not.

I have read it. I'm still waiting for you to answer my question as to why not a single biographer every included the claim in any of their works. Not even Taney himself in his autobiography. Are you going to continue to ignore the question?

94 posted on 01/23/2022 7:33:04 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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