Debate in U.S Senate, 23 February 1865, on a proposal to place a bust of late Chief Justice Roger B Taney in the chamber of the United States Supreme Court

Lyman Trumbull (Illinois) I trust that the bill will be taken up, that a person who has presided over the Supreme Court of the United States for more than a quarter of a century, and has added reputation to the character of the judiciary of the United States throughout the world is not to be hooted down by an exclamation that the country is to be emancipated Suppose he did make a wrong decision No man is infallible He was a great and learned and an able man I trust! the Senate will take up the bill, and not only take it up, but pass it

Charles Sumner (Massachusetts) The Senator...