Roger Brooke Taney

1777 – 1864

• Decision of Chief Justice Taney, in the Merryman case
• Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney
• The Dred Scott case
• A great justice on state and federal power
• Advantages of a gold currency
• Argument delivered at Annapolis, on behalf of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company
• Decision in the Merryman case, upon the writ of Habeas Corpus
• Mr. Taney's speech
• Notice of Death in Circuit Court of the United States.-1st Circuit
• Opinion of Chief Justice Taney, in the case of ex parte John Merryman, applying for a writ of habeas corpus
• Poems of the late Francis S. Key, esq., author of "The Star Spangled Banner."
• Roger Brooke Taney's account of his relations with Thomas Ellicott in the Bank War