BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Frederick -- City Hall

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FREDCH_121122_001.JPG: Court house
2. FREDCH_121122_038.JPG: Thomas Johnson Revolutionary Patriot Bosom Friend of Washington Diligent Worker for independence and nominator of Washington for Commander in Chief of Continental Army Member Council of Safety, Continental Congress, and of Maryland Convention to ratify the Articles of Confederation First Governor of State Of Maryland and Associate Justice of United States Supreme Court To Thomas Johnson is largely due the surrender by other colonies of their claims to the Great Northwest Territory Born Calvert County November 4, 1732 Died at Rose Hill, Near Frederick October 26, 1819
3. FREDCH_121122_055.JPG: Roger Brooke Taney Chief Justice of the U.S. 1836-1864 Secretary of the Treasury 1833-1834 Attorney General of the U.S. 1831-1833 Attorney General of Maryland 1827-1831 Citizen of Frederick & lawyer practicing in the Frederick County Court 1801-1823 Born in Calvert County March 17, 1777 Died in Washington, D.C. Oct 12, 1864 Buried in St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Frederick, MD.
4. FREDCH_121122_070.JPG: Joseph Urner, 1931
5. FREDCH_121122_075.JPG: Frederick's 250th Anniversary Time Capsule Open 2045
6. FREDCH_121122_081.JPG: The Dred Scott Decision At the dedication of the Roger Brooke Taney Bust in Frederick on September 26, 1931, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes concluded that "it is unfortunate that the estimate of Chief Justice Taney's judicial labors should have been so largely inﬂuenced by the opinion which he delivered in the case of Dred Scott [v Sandford]. " Dred and Harriet Scott were slaves who sued for their freedom aﬂer being taken ﬁom the slave state of Missouri into territory in which slavery had been prohibited by the Missouri Compromise. Remarkably, Dred and Harriet Scott managed to litigate for the emancipation of themselves and their two children, through two trials in the Missouri state courts, two appeals before the Missouri Supreme Court, a trial in the Federal Circuit Court in Missouri, and ﬁnally an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Taney announced the decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African slaves and their descendents were not U.S. citizens and therefore could not bring suit in the Federal Courts. Chief Justice Taney predicated this ruling upon his assertion that at the time the U.S. Constitution was framed, the "civilized portion of the white race" universally regarded "negroes" as "beings of an inferior order, and altogether unﬁt to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; . . . that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." One year later (1858), President Lincoln gave his famous speech entitled "House Divided" in which he argued that the Dred Scott decision was the product of a concerted effort by pro-slavery forces including Chief Justice Taney and President Buchanan to establish the legal underpinnings of a Union in which the right to own slaves would be guaranteed in all of the States and territories. This truly set the stage for the Civil War. A direct outcome of the Civil War was the "Reconstruction Amendments" to the U.S. Constitution. The Thirteenth Amendment (1865) abolished slavery in the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) specifically nullified the definition of citizenship set forth in the Dred Scott decision and later became the basis for the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which decision ended legal segregation. The Fifteenth Amendment (I870) prohibits the States as well as the Federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of race. The publicity generated by the case resulted in pressure that caused the owners of the Scott family to transfer ownership to Dred Scott's original owners, who then (two months after the Dred Scott decision was announced) emancipated the Scott family. Dred Scott died nine months after being emancipated. Harriet Scott died in 1876. The unenlightened racial view found in the pivotal Dred Scott Decision, the national debate that ensued, the bloodshed of the Civil War that followed -- all make it important to comprehend the historical context of our past and to continue our progress towards racial equality. Installed by the citizens of Frederick in the year 2008
7. FREDCH_121122_103.JPG: In honor & memory of those lost on September 11, 2001 Dedicated September 11, 2003 By The City of Frederick Donated by Touch Memorials
8. FREDCH_121122_109.JPG: City Hall Former Frederick County Courthouse -- Antietam Campaign 1862 -- Connections with the Civil War abound around this Courthouse Square, where the first official act of defiance against the British crown - the 1765 Stamp Act Repudiation - occurred almost a century earlier. In 1857, Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court and a former resident who is buried in Frederick, wrote in the Dread Scott Decision that the Constitution's freedoms did not extend to African-Americans, one of the steps on the road to war. Taney and his brother-in-law, Francis Scott Key, both practiced law here. A bust here honors the Chief Justice who administered the Oath of Office to seven presidents, including Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Governor Thomas Hicks called a special session of the Maryland Legislature in 1861 to address the question of secession. Because of the large number of US troops in the capital city of Annapolis, the legislature met here at the site of the former Frederick County courthouse. Finding the space inadequate, the lawmakers convened a block away in Kemp Hall. Under orders from President Lincoln, legislators likely to favor the South were detained in route. With no quorum, Maryland's legislature could not vote to secede. The courthouse burned during the session, and the legislature promptly authorized financing to construct the present building, now City Hall. Both Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and President Lincoln were visitors to this neighborhood in 1862. The reconstructed home of Barbara Fritchie, poet John Greenleaf Whittier's Civil War heroine, is reached by traveling one block south on Court Street, then one block west on Patrick Street. Map: A. Kemp Hall B. Old City Hall C. Trinity Chapel (Barbara Fritchie was baptized here) D. Evangelical Reformed Church (Stonewall Jackson reportedly slept here during a pro-Lincoln September 1862 sermon) E. Taney Bust F. All Saints Episcopal Church (C.S. Gen. William Pendleton, a noted Confederate artillery commander, was formerly the rector here) G. City Hall (1862 County Courthouse) H. Ramsey House (President Lincoln visited here in October 1862, calling on U.S. Gen. George Hartsuff who was recuperating from wounds suffered at Antietam)
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