Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-03-25
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH %, 1881
CHIEF JUSTICE MARsHALL.-We find in the last
Virginia (Fauquetl Gazette, The following on-dl,:


Virginia (Fauquier) Gazette, he following on-dlt:
ssCEF JUSTICE We hear a report tina, the
venerable of the United States court notified
the PRESIDENT that he gets through
Ie present term OF the Supreme court, he WILL
sing 'ndsposon, tender his resignation lac has
hed with so much benefit to his country himself
ior more than thirty We should pleased
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One of the articles by which that is sometimes &C
complished, which it is desired to accomplish, is 10
telgn an expectation that it is 10 be SO. We have
lately seen a remarkable example in the case of Mr.
Iazewell, who according to u certain editor was
about to resign his post in the Srnate-such an
event being precisely that which the said editor de
sired He had, no question, heard such rumer and
so possibly has our Fauquier contemporary rumor
of Gen. Marshalls proposing to resign-but we doubt
II IN either case, repori avouched and accred
ted, as to authorize its publication
That 1t is desired TO get rid of Gen Marshall
tIe5 Hero rePInes the Constitutional nerdict
upon his 'reform"-that he would like to have his
place TO reward some of his Jackson lawyers withal-
Woodbury., or White, or Grundy, or Bibb or Rowan.
we not only well believe, but have some reason
to think 1t is not impossible, improbable that
the designing have therefore, started this rumor in
order, that having obtained popu lar currency, it
might accomplish ITSELF by returning Gen. Mar
shall with the force of public expectation, or the
public wish Such argument indeed, would be
addressed in vain, the coarse minds Of the Office
hunters ofthe day-but well the authors of this rumor
know, that it would operate almost as a command
upon the honorable sensibility of the Chief Justice
leplete with the delicacy of the ''oden time" Such
we believe to be the pot--not laid by the War; en-
ton Gazete-we fully acquit the hearts of its con-
ductors of lining, and their heads fthe cunning
to contrive such plot-but by others, who to dis
guise their operations, have commenced them in the
newspaper of Country Village
We know nothing of Gen. Marshalps Intentions
but we do not believe for instant that this report
has any foundation in truth-senslbie are that
his intellect blazes in original spendor, and that he
combines the Sana mems, IN CorpOre Move
trust IN Heaven, that he has such purpose-for
though we have never been of his School of Politics.
God forbid that we should not bow in deferentia no
mage, to the simple majesty of his character and viz
tues: God forbld-that the ruling dynasty should
have the appointing of his successor or the power of
filling this Office, the most essential of any to the
upholdng our Institutions, with a relief lawyer from
Kentucky, brawler from Tennessee, or a partizan
Judge from any where else and such we should most
assuredly have
we find the following in the Political Arena of
yesterday:
"a report has prevailed of late, to which credit
generally attached, that Judge Marshall had sig
Tiied his intention of resignng his office at the ter
mination of the session of the Supreme Court The
particular junction of ahairs-the difficulty Of fin
ding a suitable successor, & the unlimited confidence
reposed by the nation at large in the integrity and
,ranscendant ability of Chief Justice Marshall, are
sufficient to account for the very lively regret which
the prospect of his resignation eXctes throughout the
country. We are happy to state however--on the
authority of an intelligent gentleman just from Wash
ington-that it was generally believed there. that
the strong remonstrauce of his friends had induced
Judge Marshall to abandon for the present the idea
of retirement. The opinion delivered on Friday in
the case of the Cherokees Us. the State Of Georgia
which is from bis pen, is said to be worthy ofthe me
rdian spendor of his intellect and should dispe the
tear-entertained by no one but hmself-that advan-
cling age has deprived his mind of its wonted ener-
gy and power"
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