Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1858 — Bancroft Correcting Judge Taney. [ARTICLE]

Bancroft Correcting Judge Taney.

The Neut York Evening Post calls attention to the following passage in Bancroft’s last volume. As >he is a much higher authority in history than Judge Taney, we may learn what a slender foundation the Dred Scott opinion has to stand upon. The passage occurs in his account of the battle of Bunker Hill: “Nor should history forget to record that, as the Army at Cambridge, so also in this gallant band, the free negroes of the colony had their representatives. For the right of the free negroes to bear arms in the public defense was, at that day, 1775, as little disputed in New England as their other rights. They took their place, not in a seperate corps, blit in the ranks with the white_.man, and their names may be read on the pension rolls of the country aide by side with those of other soldiers of the Revolution.”— Vol. vii., Chap, xxxix, page 421.