Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-11-12


fall aforesaid is rather steep and has
some rocks in it,-and there would he g
very good chance for waterfaIl-if, the
stream was hundred times wider, anC
the water ten thousand times more abund.
ant. Continued.
EuLoGY OS JUDGE MARSHALL. We give
below two extracts from Judge Story's Dis.
curse on the Life, Character and Services Of
the Hon. JOHN MARSHALL, l. l.. d., late
Chief Justice Of the United States;--pro
nounced before the Suffolk Bar, in this State
The Discourse is o. great lcngth;--it occu-
pied more than two hours in the delivery. II
IS pronounced by all, as great and happy
effort upon great and worthy subject. Nc
man living perhaps is better qualified to por.
tray the character Of this great Judge and ex.
cellent man, than Judge Story. His talents
and the intimate intercourse which he had
with the subject of the Eulogy for many
years, eminenty fitted him for the undcrtak-
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imaginative. 1t seemed not so much to give
direction to his other intellectual powers, as
to receive its lead from them. He devoted
himself principally to seriou. and profound
studies; and employed lis invention rather to
assist philosophical analysis, than to gather
materials for ornament, for persuasion, or for
picturesque eff ct. In strength, and depth,
and comprehen of mind, it would be
difficult to nam his superior. lie sought for
truths far beyond the boundaries, to which
ingusitivc and even ambitious minds are ac-
customed TO push their inquiries. lie trac d
them out from their first dim lights and paly
glimmers, until they stood embodied before
him with clear and steady brightness. His
sagaclty was as untiring, as il was acute; and
he saw the conclusion Of his premises at such
vast distances, and through sucj vast reaches
of intermediate results, that it burst upon 9TH
= minds as sort of instant and miraculous
induction. 1t was said by distinguished po-
] teal opponent, who had often felt the ow-
er Of his reas ming, that he made it a rule in
never to admit a1y proposition as
serted by the Chief Justice, however pl in !
and unquestionable it might seem to be; for,
If the premises were once ADMITTED, the con-
clusion, howev remote, flowed on with an
irresistible rtainty. His powers Of analy-
sis were, indeed marvellous. He separated
the accident from the essential circumstan-
ces with a subtlty and cXactness, which sur
prised those most, who were accustomed to-
its eXer ise. No error in reasoning escaped
his detection. He followed it through all its
loublngs, until it became palpablc, and strip |
ped of all its DISCUSSES. But, what seemed Pc
ruIiarly his own, was the power, with which
he seized upon principle or argument, "a
parently presented in the most elementary
form, and showed it to be mere corollary of
some more general truth, which lay at i'm
measurable distances beyond ii. II MS mind
had been less practical, he would have been
he most cOnsummate of metaphys clans, and
he most skilful of sophists. But his love Of
daIectlcs was constantly controlled by his
superior love of truth. lie had no vain am
bition to darken counsel, or encourage doubt.
His aim was conscientiously to unfold truth,
as it was, in its simple majesty; to strengthen
the foundation of moral, religious, social, po-
ltlcal, and legal obligations; and to employ |
he gifts, with which Providence had entrust- /
I'd him, to augment happiness, support hu-
nan just ce, and bind together in an indisso-
uble union the great interests Of human So
,iety. In short, if | were called upon to say,
n what he intellectually exceled most men,
should say 1t was in wisdom, in the sense
lrcady alluded to;-a wisdom, drawn from
arge, extensive, sound principles and vari-
,us researches;--a wisdom, which constant
y accumulated new materials for thought
md action, and as constantly sifted and re-
ined thu old. He was not ambitious Of lite
ary distinction. But his great work on the
ife of Washington shows his capacity for
historical composition in the most favorable
light. 1t will ever remain monument Of
lis skill, sound judgment, and strict impair
iality; and must in the future, as in the past,
'e standard authority for all other histor-
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Yes, this great and good man was all that,
We could ask, or even desire for the station.
lie seemed the very personilication of Justice
tself, as he ministered at its altars-in the
resence Of the nation-withn the very walls,
which had often echoed back the unsurpassed /
loquence of the dead, of Dexter and Pinkney
nd Emmett, and Writ, and of the living also,
amecss here, but whose names will swell
n the voices Of thousand generations.-I
enter but that hall, and you saw him listen
ng with quiet, easy dignity to the discuss
ons at the bar; silent, serious, searching; with
keenness Of thought, which sophistry could
ot mlslead, or error confuse, or ingenuity Il
elude; with benignity Of aspect, which in
tied the modest to move on with confidence;
With conscious firmness Of purpose, which
epressed arrogance, and overawed declama-
ion. You heard him pronounce the opinion
{ the Court in a low but modulated voice,
nfolding in luminous order every topic of ar
unent, trying its strength, and measuring
$ value, until you felt yourself in the pres
nee of the very oracle of the law. You
card, (if may adopt the language applied
} another great magistrate on a like occa- \
on) you "heard principles stated, reasoned
pom, enlarged, and explained. until you were
,st in admiration at the strength and stretch
{ the human understanding. Follow him |