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In 1863, Lincoln delivered the Emancipation Proclamation notwithstanding Taney's rulings on slavery. Taney finally relented, saying: "I have exercised all the power which the Constitution and laws confer on me, but that power has been resisted by a force too strong for me to overcome."
Originally from Maryland, Taney had been a slaveholder until he emancipated his own slaves in 1818. But the Border State judge considered himself a nationalist above all else, and angrily blamed abolitionists for ripping the country apart.
As a young lawyer he called slavery a “blot on our national character.” What turned Taney into a pro-slavery advocate is not clear, but by 1857, Taney had hardened, going as far as to declare the abolitionist movement “northern aggression.”
Oct 8, 2024 · In essence, the decision argued that Scott was a slave and as such was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal court. Taney’s further opinion that Congress had no power to exclude slavery from the territories and that Negroes could not become citizens was bitterly attacked in the Northern press.
May 29, 2018 · In addition, Taney ruled that the free descendants of slaves were not federal citizens and that property in slaves was entitled to such protection that Congress could not constitutionally forbid slavery in the territories.
His position on the slavery laws was most clearly expressed in the Dred Scott Case (1857). Here, he held that slaves (and even the free descendants of slaves) were not citizens and may not sue in the federal courts.
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Although he was from the South, Taney personally didn’t believe in the institution of slavery, having emancipated his slaves in 1818. But along with a belief in the inferior status of Black Americans, he believed emancipation should be gradual and left to the states.
