Letters from Washington state that the President will not nominate any new Bank Directors to the Senate, and also, that in consequence of the rejection of the directors, nominated, he will not submit the appointment of Mr. Taney to the consideration of the Senate.— Boston Atlas.
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Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, photograph by Mathew Brady. Author of the infamous Dred Scott decision, and a life-long advocate of colonizationism.