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[David Lockmiller]

(06-20-2018 07:11 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Taney considered slavery an evil.

Doris Kearns Goodwin takes exception with this opinion.

In her book, "Team of Rivals," she wrote at pages 188-189: "The court was headed by Chief Justice Roger Taney of Maryland, 'an uncompromising supporter of the South and slavery and an implacable foe of racial equality, the Republican Party, and the antislavery movement.'" Goodwin's interior quotation was from Finkelman,"Dred Scott v. Sanford," p. 29.

Doris Kearns Goodwin also added on page 189 this observation regarding Taney's opinion of the Negro race: "Blacks were 'so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.'" Roger B. Taney, opinion quoted in Finkelman,"Dred Scott v. Sanford," pp. 35-36.

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(06-20-2018 05:32 PM)JMadonna Wrote:  

(06-20-2018 10:45 AM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  And, as regards slavery, I can never forget the photograph of the older distinguished black slave whose back was absolutely covered in healed whip wounds. What an awesome personality that man must have possessed!

Not sure of your conclusion of the man's personality but I'm not defending slavery in any shape manner or form. My point was that abolition is a very recent phenomenon in the history of man. One should not damn ones ancestors for either following or ignoring the custom of the time.

If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."