Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Chief-Justice Taney” in entry kansas of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:

... sent it in to Congress (Feb. 2, 1858), wherein was a large Democratic majority, with a message in which he recommended its acceptance and ratification. In that message, referring to the opinion of Chief-Justice Taney , the President said: It has been solemnly adjudged, by the highest judicial tribunal known to our laws, that slavery exists in Kansas by virtue of the Constitution of the United States; Kansas is, th...
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