Comments on: Roger Taney Does a Good Deed http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/roger-taney-does-a-good-deed/ remembering freedom for the slaves ... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Damon G. Taney http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/roger-taney-does-a-good-deed/#comment-1599 Thu, 09 May 2013 15:35:58 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=386#comment-1599 Hi Don:

What do you think would have happened to the United States had the decision gone the other way? Do you think President Buchanan; a Quaker; would have gone to war to keep the southern states from leaving the union? How long do you think slavery would have lasted in the Confederacy at that point? Would the U,S, as we know it today exist? Do you even know the other things that Roger B. did for the country when he was a member of ” the kitchen cabinet?”

]]> By: fiona taney http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/roger-taney-does-a-good-deed/#comment-1314 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:59:01 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=386#comment-1314 well, he made a decision that was the most popular at the time, i am sure that if he had the same decision to make again today he would pick to let the slave be free, slaves were a way of life back then but everyone has there different opinions, thank you for all the information
Fiona Taney

]]> By: Donald R. Shaffer http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/roger-taney-does-a-good-deed/#comment-1303 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:58:20 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=386#comment-1303 Hi Fiona. Dred Scott deals with the case of a slave suing for his freedom, not with an escaped slave. And Roger Taney wrote the majority opinion pf the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, denying that Scott even had grounds to sue because slaves were not citizens, and because black men “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Your kinsman had a brilliant legal mind, and his attitudes about race were common in the antebellum United States, but his words in the Dred Scott case were controversial even in his lifetime and do not help his historical reputation. There was no need in rejecting Scott’s appeal to use such racially inflammatory rhetoric, which aggravated rather than soothed sectional tensions in the years before the Civil War.

Don Shaffer

]]> By: fiona taney http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/roger-taney-does-a-good-deed/#comment-1302 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:38:57 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=386#comment-1302 Roger B Taney is my great, great, great uncle, in the dread Scott case the vote was 2 to 7 in favor of charging the man who helped the slave escape, roger Taney vote didn’t even matter he was a good man who deserves his honor in history

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