<p><span class="deck">The third in a series on TIMES OF TRIAL IN AMERICAN STATECRAFT </span></p>
<p>Old Hickory's attack on Biddle's bank had some unexpected consequences</p>
<p>Chief Justice Roger Taney made his contribution to the ideology of white supremacy when he asserted that blacks were a people apart, beyond the promise of the<em> Declaration</em> and the guarantees of the <em>Constitution</em>.</p>
