[Aurelius]

Even McPherson, although he suppresses relevant information about the Dred Scott case, acknowledges the well known fact that Taney had no love for the institution of slavery and had freed his own slaves well before the War Between the States. Battle Cry, p. 172.

[Non-Sequitur]

Let's go with the whole quote, if you please. McPherson point out that Taney also saw southern values and the southern way of life, which he did have a great love for, '...organically linked to the peculiar institution and unpreservable without it."