Historical Newspaper: Affairs in the Yankee Congress - Touching Tribute by Sumner to the Memory of Judge Taney
Subject
Charles Sumner
Title
Historical Newspaper: Affairs in the Yankee Congress - Touching Tribute by Sumner to the Memory of Judge Taney
Date
2/28/1865
Type
Historical Newspaper
Description
Note: 5th column, top.
Chronicling America features an 1865 Daily Dispatch historical newspaper article, written by an unknown author, that provides an account of the perspectives in Congress about creating a bust memorializing Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who played a role in the implementing Dred Scott decision. Charles Sumner (LR-MA)--the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts and the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate--opposed the creation of the bust, saying "An emancipated country ought not to make a bust of of the author of the Dred Scott decision."
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Chronicling America features an 1865 Daily Dispatch historical newspaper article, written by an unknown author, that provides an account of the perspectives in Congress about creating a bust memorializing Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, who played a role in the implementing Dred Scott decision. Charles Sumner (LR-MA)--the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts and the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate--opposed the creation of the bust, saying "An emancipated country ought not to make a bust of of the author of the Dred Scott decision."
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Publisher
Library of Congress - Chronicling America (The Daily Dispatch, VA)
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“Historical Newspaper: Affairs in the Yankee Congress - Touching Tribute by Sumner to the Memory of Judge Taney,” Project Reconstruction, accessed April 24, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/422.