Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-05-12

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one word of truth, laid the work down."
''Returning in the coach at night, from the
meeting at the capitol, the General Observed:
Il am much gratifed with the events Of the
evening, and with the laudable and beneyo-
lent views ofthe Society, which has done me
the honor of membership: my best wishes will
be with you, and your generous labours, when
shall be far removed. | am also gratified by
the association of my election with that of the
Chief Justice, at whose side had the plea
sure to sit, and whom every body loves'"
"'rhe Chief Justice, my dear General, is a
fellow labourer in this good cause, and is Pre-
sident of an Auxiliary Society, in Richmond.
"NIadame de stael called Napoleon sys-
temi--we may, with more propriety, call our
Chief Judge an union, of goodness, greatness,
and republican simplicity. Do you not re-
collect, when at yorktown, he introduced
to you veteran officer, in these few words,
which spoke as many Volumes 'Col. Long,
who has partaken of more revolutionary bat
ties, than any man now living Long is pro-
badly the last surviving officer of Morgan's
corps, majestic amid the ruins of more than
seventy years, he tells to modern degeneracy,
such were the men, who came forth from the
mountains and forests at the call of their coun-
try, in the old revolutionary days.
'EAnd you will also remember, when the
veteran in telling the tale of other times, and
relating the march of the yirginians to the
battle of the Bridges in 1775, Familiarity OBJ
served: 'John Marshall was there, very
young man. What horror would the equity
and bewigged dignitaries of your European
benches have experienced at familiarity like
this, proceeding from plain citizen, to the
first law officer of the realm. Yet the great
American, though 'unadorned, adorned the
most in public and private worth, smiled with
pleasure on the Renaissance Of his early de-
votion to his country's cause.
"I'he Marshall family bore an ample and
distinguished share in our Revolutionary
struggle The father was major to the lament
ed Mercer, in the Sd Virginia, in which corps
also served President Monroe, and William
Washington. President Monroe and Colonel
Randolph of Fauquier, are probably the only
surviving officers ofthe regiment of Mercer,t
in the campaign Qf1676.
In III, Col. Marshall commanded the Sd,
which, reduced to scarcely more than battal-
ion by previous hard service, maintained its
distinguished rcnown at Brandywine, and was
nearly annihilated on that disastrous dav. The
Colonel and two officers alone escaped unhurt
the Coionels horse receiving several balls!
Eight officers werc-killed and wounded, thir-
teen non-commissioned,a and sixty-fve privates.
John Marshall the eldest son, was j volun-
teerwith Woodford, at the affair ofthe Great
Bridges, in rs; was afterwards a captain in the
18th Virginia, or Morgan's, then Febiger's-
was at BTandywine in III, and at the battle Of
Monmouth in '7S, where, from exertion and
the excessive heat of the day, he tainted in q
eficld, and had nearly died without wound,
as ,umbers of the men of both armies did,
from fatigue and the overpowcring heat of the
weather.
A younger brother, James, was volunteer
at Yorktown. There were other young men
Of the family, with whose history the writer is
unacquainted but will not hesitate to say,
that iftheir ages permitted them TO have 'heard
ofbattlcs, & longed to follow to the field some
warlike chief it was wish which their gal
liant sire would never have denied
a stranger arriyingin Richmond, would ask
WHO'S that elderly gentleman returning from
the market; at whose toilette the Graces do not
appear to have presided with particular care
this morning. Surely he IS no ordinary man.
The citizens of Richmond would answer, the
gentleman you see is only the ChiefJustice of
the United States, our own dear John Mar
shall, whom when he shall cease to Judge, and
repair to an higher tribunal himself to be
judged, leaves not his fellow behind him
whose loss to his country would form blank,
this wide extended empire cannot fillup.
"whose magic Cannot copied be,
For in that circle none burst walk but he"
He il of the last of the Federalists, (consis-
tent ones mean) and with the venerable
PinkGey, form their chiefs. And now LET me
say to that old man, who has just retired from
his country's highest reward, whose devotion
to Liberty amid the earliest of Lberty's bat
ties, when hisyoutllful blood stained the SHOWS
at Trenton-whose half century of public SER
vice. whose honesty, whose poverty. and a
bove all, whose exemplary domestic worth,
causes every American TO hope and pray that
Cayenne, with seventy negro slaves thereon,
which he had sold without any scruple, or
stipulation, concerning the situation of the ne
groes, the latter end of 1889, and from that
tine, enrolled himself among the friends of
the blacks.
Edwards, the apoligist of slavery, the cham
pion of monopoly and the sugar hogshead, in
relating one of the most horrible of all the hor-
: Dnuniutro concludes. 6 Gnch ora