OF

Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D.

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

BY SAMUEL TYLER, LL.D.

OF THE MARYLAND BAR.

Qui nihil in vita nisi laudandum, aut fecit, aut dixit, aut sensit

BALTIMORE:

PUBLISHED BY JOHN MURPHY & Co.

182 BALTIMORE STREET.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by

TO THE

HON. RICHARD H. MARSHALL,

AND

HON. JAMES M. COALE,

OF THE FREDERICK BAK.

GENTLEMEN:

BECAUSE OF OUR FRIENDSHIP RUNNING THROUGH SO MANY YEARS,
AND THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE SIGNALIZED YOUR VENERATION FOR THE
MEMORY OF CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY, BY ERECTING, WITH THE PERMISSION
OF HIS FAMILY, A MONUMENT OVER HIS GRAVE, I INSCRIBE THIS MEMOIR
TO YOU.
YOURS, FAITHFULLY,

MAY, 1872.

SAMUEL TYLER.

FREDERICK CITY,

MARYLAND

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