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Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 77, [3]pp. Removed from a nonce volume. A little age-toning, else very near fine. House of Representative Document No. 15 of the 1st Session of the 23rd Congress. Detailed reports and abstracts.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 98pp. Removed from a nonce volume. A little foxing, else near fine. Doc. No. 73 of the 23d Congress, 1st Session. *OCLC* locates no separate copies of this report.

In Praise of Chief Justice Taney Potter, Clarkson N. [1825-1882]. [Taney, Roger B. (1777-1864)]. Roger Brooke Taney. The Annual Address Delivered Before the American Bar Association At its Fourth Annual Meeting, At Saratoga Springs, N.Y., August 18, 1881. Philadelphia: E.C. Markley & Son, Printers, 1881. 26 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"). Pamphlet in stiff printed wrappers, bound in three-quarter calf over marbled boards, blind fillets to calf edges, gilt fillets and title to spine, endpapers added. Moderate toning, slight vertical fold line, front wrapper laid-down on stiff card, its lower outside corner lacking without loss to text, small clean tears to bottom edges of a few leaves, two mended with cellotape, text not affected. $150. * Only edition, reprinted from the proceedings of the fourth annual meeting of the American Bar Association. In addition to many other state and federal political and legal positions, Taney was chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1836 until his death in 1864. He is best known as the author of the majority opinion in the notorious Dred Scott decision (1857), which held that enslaved people residing in a free state or territory were not entitled to their freedom and that Black Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. Though the Dred Scott decision made Taney an object of disdain among some of his contemporaries, he was also praised by many and garnered respect during his long career in public service. This address reviews his career and compares his term on the Supreme Court with that of his predecessor, John Marshall. It is largely effusive in its praise for Taney, to whom Potter refers as "[in] the highest and best sense a Christian, a lawyer and a gentleman." Potter also emphasizes the distinction between Taney's writing in the Dred Scott opinion and his conduct and beliefs in his personal life, which were largely anti-slavery. OCLC locates 4 copies of this title in law libraries (Harvard, U.S. Supreme Court Library, Library of Congress, Social Law). Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School (1909) II:707.

16pp. 8vo. First Philadelphia edition. First Philadelphia edition. 16pp. 8vo. In April 1861, with the Civil War erupting, northern troops were rushed to Washington, D.C. to protect the capital, passing through Baltimore by rail. Although Maryland voted against secession at the end of April, pro Southern sentiment abounded in the planter society and the state militia was used to try and prevent northern troops from passing through the state. The following month, planter and militia Lieutenant John Merryman was arrested for treason and for advocating "armed hostility against the Government" for his role in destroying railroad bridges in the state being used to transport Union troops. Merryman's lawyers appealed to Justice Roger B. Taney (the Supreme Court Justice who infamously decided the Dred Scott case by ruling that those of African ancestry could not claim citizenship in the United States), who immediately issued a writ of habeas corpus. Guaranteed by the Suspension Clause of the Constitution, habeas corpus protected citizens against unlawful arrests by allowing the court to bring prisoner's before the bench to determine whether their detention was indeed lawful. General George Cadwalader, the commander of the military district including Fort McHenry where Merryman was being held prisoner, refused to abide with Taney's decision, citing Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus. On May 28, in the present decision, Taney stated from the bench in ex parte John Merryman that the President can neither suspend habeas corpus nor authorize a military officer to do it, and that military officers cannot arrest a person not subject to the rules and articles of war, except as ordered by the court. President Lincoln would refuse to comply with Taney's ruling, continuing the suspension and the military arrests without congressional approval. The passage of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act in March 1863 finally ended the controversy, at least temporarily, by authorizing presidential suspension of the writ during the Civil War. Taney's decision, widely seen as pro-Southern, although based in sound legal precedent, was first published separately in Baltimore in 1861, followed by a New Orleans printing and another in Jackson, Mississippi. This Philadelphia edition would appear the following year. Sabin 48029 Disbound, a bit brittle, chip at fore-edge.

Frederick County, MD: February 1, 1817. 2 pp. (illustrator). Frederick County, MD: February 1, 1817. 2 pp. A Court Document Written and Signed by Taney [Manuscript]. Taney, Roger B. [1777-1864]. [Court Document in Taney's Hand, Signed by Taney, Frederick County, MD, February 1, 1817]. 2 pp. 13-1/4" x 8" leaf, docketed on verso. Moderate toning, untrimmed edges, three horizontal fold lines with short tears at ends. Content in neat hand. $1,250. * This is a collection notice addressed to Jacob Drill composed and signed by Taney on behalf of his client, James McAlee, when he was practicing law in Frederick and a Maryland state senator. Taney held many state and federal political and legal positions and became chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1836, a post he held until his death in 1864. As chief justice, he is known for the notorious Dred Scott decision (1857), which ruled that a slave who had resided in a free state or territory was not entitled to his freedom and that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. It also invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which prohibited slavery west of Missouri and north of latitude 36? 30.'.