Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court: Roger Taney; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources In 1837, the very year T aney took his seat on the Supreme Bench, he gave the Opinion of the Court in the cases Of the Garonne and the Fortune, two vessels libelled, under the act of 1818, for bringing as slaves into New Orleans persons who had, in 1831 and 1835, been carried to France and some of them manumitted there. The judge then said that, assuming that by French law they were entitled to free dom, there is nothing in this act to pre vent their mistress b1inging them back and holding them as oefore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.