And obviously some are still oozing.
Any proof that Curtis, Brown, Nelson and Campbell heard it from Taney?
Their versions have been posted here from time to time and if memory serves they all relate that Taney told them of his fears. None credit a different source.
So you're saying that Lamon made it up, Mr. Black his wife/daughter, or someone else? Me, I prefer to believe the Chief Justice. Who also informed Mayor Brown that he - Brown - would also be arrested.
Of course you would, since that is the version that fits your agenda. Taney was telling people he expected to be arrested for his decision even before he had issued it. He never credited any source for this information, or gave the reason why be believed it. And, as it turns out, he was wrong. He wasn't arrested and remained on the bench for the remainder of his life. And as for who to believe, I prefer to believe historians who have researched the issue rather than sources like Tommy DiLorenzo or the Kennedy boys. And, surprise, surprise, not a single biography of Taney that I'm aware of repeats the tale.
The OR is replete with orders for the arrest of editors, judges, lawyers, children, priests, congressmen, ex-governors, and anyone else not toeing the party line.
And yet, amazingly enough, not a whiff of evidence supporting the claim of a Taney arrest warrant. Keep looking.
The judge was later arrested. I'll believe that Taney was simply one of thousands upon thousands ordered to be arrested during the reign of a madman and despot.
Why drag Jeff Davis into this?
I'm glad my ancestors were CREATED in God's image.
Their versions have been posted here from time to time and if memory serves they all relate that Taney told them of his fears. None credit a different source.
Taney told Lamon of the warrant?
Of course you would, since that is the version that fits your agenda.
No agenda at all. It fits with every other unconstitutional action taken by Lincoln and his administration. Arresting people for what they said, or when they remained silent. Arresting anyone who had the temerity to interfere with the administration's plan of conquest and plunder.
Taney was telling people he expected to be arrested for his decision even before he had issued it. He never credited any source for this information, or gave the reason why be believed it.
Gee Wally, why then would Lamon state that Lincoln gave him the warrant to use at his discretion? Because Taney said so? Bwahahaahahahahahaha!
And as for who to believe, I prefer to believe historians who have researched the issue rather than sources like Tommy DiLorenzo or the Kennedy boys. And, surprise, surprise, not a single biography of Taney that I'm aware of repeats the tale.
My God you're guillible!
For once, Tyler's grandiose manner is not one whit too grandiloquent in writing that " there is nothing more sublime in the acts of great magistrates that give dignity to governments, than this attempt of Chief Justice Taney to uphold the supremacy of the Constitution and the civil authority in the midst of arms." He recognized no truth in the maxim, "Inter arma, silent leges," and he fearlessly performed his duty, though the aged jurist knew what peril he might incur, and remarked, as he left the house of his son in law, James Mason Campbell, that "it was likely he should be imprisoned in Fort McHenry before night; but that he was going to court to do his duty."
Bernard C. Steiner, Life of Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Baltimore: MD, Williams & Wilkins, 1922, pp. 494-495 [emphasis mine, italics in original, citing Samuel Tyler, Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D.,: Chief justice of the Supreme court of the United States, Baltimore, MD: John Murphy & Co, 1872, p. 427;]