“Taney was punished by abolitionists in the Senate even after his death. In early 1865, the House of Representatives passed a bill to appropriate funds for a bust of Taney to be displayed in the courtroom of the Supreme Court.[7] “Now an emancipated country should make a bust to the author of the Dred Scott decision?” exclaimed the indignant Senator Charles Sumner, “If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.” Instead, Sumner proposed that a vacant spot, not a bust of Taney, be left in the courtroom “to speak in warning to all who would betray liberty!”
