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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bank of the United States. (search)
e responsibility of performing the act. He directed the Secretary of the Treasury (William Duane) to withdraw the government funds — about $10,000,000--from the bank, and deposit them in certain State banks. The Secretary would only consent to appoint an agent to inquire upon what terms the local banks would receive the funds on deposit. Then the President gave him a peremptory order to remove them from the bank. Duane refused compliance, and was dismissed from office. His successor, Roger B. Taney (afterwards Chief-Justice of the United States), obeyed the President, and in October, 1833, the removal was accomplished. The effect produced was widespread commercial embarrassments and distress. The business of the country was plunged from a height of prosperity to the depths of adversity, because its intimate connection with the national bank rendered any paralysis of the operations of that institution fatal to commercial activity. The vital connection of the bank with the busines
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cabinet, President's (search)
latin .May 14, 1801 George W. Campbell Feb. 9, 1814 Alexander J. Dallas Oct. 6, 1814 William H. CrawfordOct. 22, 1816 Richard Rush March 7, 1825 Samuel D. Ingham March 6, 1829 Louis McLane Aug. 2, 1831 William J. Duane May 29, 1833 Roger B. Taney Sept.23, 1833 Levi Woodbury June 27, 1834 Thomas Ewing March 5, 1841 Walter Forward Sept.13, 1841 John C. Spencer March 3, 1843 George M. Bibb June 15, 1844 Robert J. Walker March 6, 1845 William M. Meredith March 8, 1849 Thomas Feb. 20,1801 Levi Lincoln March 5,1801 Robert Smith March 3,1805 John Breckinridge Aug. 7,1805 Caesar A. RodneyJan. 28,1807 William Pinkney Dec. 11,1811 Richard Rush Feb. 10,1814 William WirtNov.13,1817 John M. BerrienMarch 9,1829 Roger B. TaneyJuly 20,1831 Benjamin F. ButlerNov. 15,1833 Felix Grundy July 5,1838 Henry D. GilpinJan. 11,1840 John J. Crittenden March 5,1841 Hugh S. LegareSept.13,1841 John Nelson July 1,1843 John Y. MasonMarch 6,1845 Nathan Clifford Oct. 17,184
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dred Scott case, the. 1856- (search)
r Territory. The mother was bought by the master of Scott, and parents and children were taken by that officer back to Missouri and there sold. Scott sued for his freedom on the plea of his involuntary residence in a free-labor Territory and State for several years. The case was tried in the Circuit Court of St. Louis, and the decision was in Scott's favor. The Supreme Court of the State reversed the decision, and the case was carried to the Supreme Court of the United States, chief-justice Roger B. Taney (q. v.) presiding. The chief-justice and a majority of the court were friends of the slave system, and their decision, which, for prudential reasons, was withheld until after the Presidential election in 1856, was against Scott. The chief-justice declared that any person whose ancestors were imported into this country and held as slaves had no right to sue in a court in the United States; in other words, he denied the right of citizenship to any person who had been a slave or wa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
st of Africa, of America, and of the West Indies, for the suppression of the slave-traffic, were empowered, under certain restrictions, to detain, examine, capture, and deliver over for trial and adjudication by some competent tribunal, any ship or vessel concerned in the illicit traffic in slaves, and carrying the flag of either nation. This convention was signed by Richard Rush for the United States, and by W. Huskisson and Sir Stratford Canning for Great Britain. On March 6, 1857, Roger B. Taney, chief-justice of the United States, and a majority of his associates in the Supreme Court, uttered an extra-judicial opinion, that any person who had been a slave, or was a descendant of a slave, could not enjoy the rights of citizenship in the United States. Five years afterwards (1862) Secretary Seward issued a passport to a man who had been a slave to travel abroad as a citizen of the United States. Six years later still (July 20, 1868) the national Constitution was so amended that
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Supreme Court, United States (search)
804517551810 John Marshall, Virginia1801-353417551835 William Johnson, South Carolina1804-343017711834 Brockholst Livingston, New York1806-231717571823 Thomas Todd, Kentucky1807-261917651826 Joseph Story, Massachusetts1811-453417791845 Gabriel Duval, Maryland1811-362517521844 Smith Thompson, New York1823-432017671843 Robert Trimble, Kentucky1826-28217771828 John McLean, Ohio1829-613217851861 Henry Baldwin, Pennsylvania1830-441417791844 James M. Wayne, Georgia1835-673217901867 Roger B. Taney, Maryland1836-642817771864 Philip B. Barbour, Virginia1836-41517831841 John Catron, Tennessee1837-652817861865 John McKinley, Alabama1837-521517801852 Peter V. Daniel, Virginia1841-601917851860 Samuel Nelson, New York1845-722717921873 Levi Woodbury, New Hampshire1845-51617891851 Robert C. Grier, Pennsylvania1846-702317941870 Benjamin R. Curtis, Massachusetts1851-57618091874 John A. Campbell, Alabama1853-61818111889 Nathan Clifford, Maine1858-812318031881 Noah H. Swayne, Ohio18
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Taney, Roger Brooke 1777-1864 (search)
Taney, Roger Brooke 1777-1864 Jurist; born in Calvert county, Md., March 17, 1777; graduated at Dickinson College in 1795; admitted to the bar in 1799. He was of a family of English Roman Catholics who settled in Maryland. At the age of twenty-three he was a member of the Maryland Assembly; was State Senator in 1816, and attorney-general of Maryland in 1827. In 1831 President Jackson appointed him United States Attorney-General, and in 1836 he was appointed chief-justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed Judge Marshall. In 1857 he gave his famous opinion in the Dred Scott case (q. v.), and was an earnest upholder of the slave-system. He died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 12, 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Jackson makes a tour of the Eastern States as far as Concord, N. H., returning to Washington......July 3, 1833 President removes W. J. Duane, Secretary of Treasury, for refusing to withdraw the deposits from the National Bank, and appoints Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, in his place......Sept. 23, 1833 President Jackson directs the Secretary of the Treasury to withdraw the deposits, about $10,000,000, from the National Bank......Sept. 26, 1833 Indian chief Black Hawk is taken through the pt. 24–Oct. 28, 1864 English-built cruiser Florida captured in the Brazilian harbor of Bahia by the United States war-ship Wachusett, and taken to Hampton Roads, where she is sunk by a collision a few days after......Oct. 7, 1864 Chief-Justice Roger B. Taney dies in Washington......Oct. 12, 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Va.......Oct. 19, 1864 Raid on St. Albans, Vt., by Confederates from Canada......Oct. 19, 1864 Confederates under Price enter Linn county, Kan......Oct. 23, 1864
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
uly 10, 1831 National anti-masonic convention assembles at Baltimore and nominates William Wirt for President of the United States......Sept. 26, 1831 Roger Brooke Taney, of Maryland, appointed Attorney-General of the United States......Dec. 27, 1831 Taney appointed Secretary of the Treasury......Sept. 24, 1833 HospitaTaney appointed Secretary of the Treasury......Sept. 24, 1833 Hospital for the insane at Spring Grove, Baltimore county, opened......1834 Taney appointed chief-justice Supreme Court of the United States......March 15, 1836 Legislature passes the famous internal improvement bill, subscribing $3,000,000 in State bonds to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, $3,000,000 to the Baltimore and OhioTaney appointed chief-justice Supreme Court of the United States......March 15, 1836 Legislature passes the famous internal improvement bill, subscribing $3,000,000 in State bonds to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, $3,000,000 to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, $500,000 to the Maryland Crosscut Canal, $500,000 to the Annapolis and Potomac Canal, and $1,000,000 to the Eastern Shore Railroad — in all $8,000,000......June 3, 1836 State convention irrespective of party meets in Baltimore and adopts resolutions for revising the constitution......June 6, 1836 Constitution revis