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To: Sherman Logan
A warrant for the arrest of Taney may have been issued, but he was not actually arrested or jailed.

Actually it wasn't even issued. When I read "Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney", I took the chance to email James Simon and tell him how much I enjoyed his book. I also asked him if he had found any evidence of any attempt to arrest Taney by Lincoln or anyone else. His answer was a definitive 'no', he had found no evidence at all supporting the claim.

47 posted on 09/26/2009 6:05:53 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

I did say “may.”

The claims I’ve seen have been secondary reports from purported participants decades after the events in question.

Nothing resembling actual documentary evidence has been found.

That said, a great many Americans of southern sympathies were indisputably committing treason, by the Constitution’s definition, during the War.

If the CSA was indeed a separate nation, as they claimed, then they were giving aid and comfort to their country’s enemy, to the extent in many cases of burning bridges, killing soldiers, etc.


50 posted on 09/26/2009 6:34:36 PM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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