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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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To: DoodleDawg
Of course. Tyler made the whole book up out of whole cloth, aided and abetted by Taney's family and friends. Makes perfect sense.

Silence does not equal denial or affirmation.

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?

You would have us believe you can read Taney's mind now? He may have felt it more politically expedient not to mention it in his memoirs. That does not prove it did not happen. Did Churchill mention Ultra in his memoirs? Yet Ultra existed.

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?

Taney chose not to mention it in his memoirs. As to the biographers, they were unaware that multiple others had mentioned Taney discussed it with them. Taney is not even the only source. Lincoln's secret service bodyguard as well as his personal secretary both said Lincoln signed the arrest warrant. Why would they all say that if it had not happened?

96 posted on 01/23/2022 2:31:59 PM PST by FLT-bird
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