Thank God that at least in one place all men are equal, in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a negro in the house of our Heavenly Father.

Attributed in J. A. Walter, "Chief-Justice Taney in Relation to the Dred Scott Case", The Century Magazine, vol. 26, no. 6 (October 1883) p. 958, and in Bernard C. Steiner, Life of Roger Brooke Taney (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co, 1922) p. 347, footnote