The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-02-11


he wanted posthumns care.
The crime was probably committed
after 1901, when Michael Taney's son,
Roger. had been defeated for reelection
to the Legislature. perhaps by the ef
forts of the victims family, for in
March. 1901, he removed to Frederick
county where he was again defeated.
"They sold out the property after
their fathers death and two of them
removed from the county. They were
"grown-up sons.
The murder OF young man for the
crime of being favorably regarded by
a young woman Of his own age when
committed by widower with grown
up sons looks like lust as we'll as
ferocity AS the murderer could not
hope to marry the young woman, he
must have gratified the murderous in
clination alone. Was he in rage!
Was he in his cups? Or was he mere
ly constitutionally morose and deadly?
That he was followed in his outlawry
by no human friend but one faithful
slave who nursed his 1istemper in his
solitude and relnJrse might have
weighed upon Justice Taneys memory
when he oppressed the whole race of
that old body servant.
Michael Taney had reli gious edu-
cation at the Jesuit College Of St.
Omer and accompanied that school
when it was expelled from France to
Bruges or Liege in the United Neither
lands. We know that France expelled
the Jesuits in the reign of Louis \N.,
1864. Bishop John Carroll was Or
dained in 1856 at Leige and was pro-
fessor there and at Bruges and st.
Omer. Charles Carroll's mother was
like Taney's, Brooke, and she sent
Carroll to st. Omer in l743, where he
remained till l15l. We should seek
Michael Tanev at st. Omer after these
dates. Catholic pupils had been going
to St. Omer from Maryland since 1851.
In Goodies revolution of 1859 it was
made 4 grievance that ''there is sup
ply provided by sending our Popish
youth to be educated at st. Omer."
The Taneys were not originally Catho-
lies, and, although the Jesuit college
was opened at Georgetown in 1861,
Michael Tanev sent his son to Dickin-
son College, a Presbyterian foundation,
to graduate in 1898.
Education had been so much neg
lected by the proprietors OF Maryland
that a legislator educated at St. Omer
probably cared little about the sccta-
rian quality if he found any school.
John Dickinson, formerly of Maryland,
founded Dickinson College at the close
Of the Revolution. Before the RevO-
lntion the native Catholics of Mary
land were restrained from their re-
ligion. and after the restraints were
taken off by the independence of the
country they were and are more liberal
than the foreign Catholics. They be-
came Federalists, while the Irish and
French Catholics were nti-Federalists.
The Taneys were retired from ? l'';;al
life by the Jeffersonians. Both Michael
and Roger fancy are accused of hay
ing been Federalists implacahles.
After his defeat in his native county
Roger married Anne Key, whose fami-
ly had been partly loyalists. The
ablest of them was Philip Barton Key,
Il British officer during the Revolution,
and aftcrward Federalist member Of
Congress. Mrs. Taney continued to
her death an Epscopalian, while the
Chief Justice attended Mass with his
negro man slave.
fancy says his father was too impa-
tient to teach his sons, but was read
cr of all the books the country afforded.
He drops his autobiography at the
period of his fathers crime and Tyler
SAYS no more about Michael fancy.
But the avidity with V hich fancy pur-
sued the United States Bank shows
that his politics was as willlul and
domincering as his fathers. His rival
in that warfare was Francis Thomas,
a duelst and State Governor of irasci-
blc and gloomy passions, who had 4
memorable divorce suit and late in life
passed the Maryland act of cmancipa-
ton. recorded on his tombstone.
Taney administered the oath ofotice
to Polk, Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln.
Five years after his death a Maryland
ex-slave Of fine literary accomplish
men.s was Marshal of the District of
| Columbia.
a little after daylight saw from
| the deck, as the steamer entered Battle
Creek, the early home of Taney. 1t
was 4 good way back from the water,
perhaps half or thrce-quarters ofa mile
and some fifty or sixty feet above the
beach, with Il gently falling, lawnlike
landscape between, sloping three ways
to the river, the creek, and the point
between the two. The house appeared
to be whitewashed, with extensions and
sheds like planters houses of that day
and placed back beyond the malaria of
the shore.
Upon both capc> Of Battle Creek
were landings. but Williams's wharf
! furthcst from fancy 5, was the traffic