Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-07-16
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.,aoadnq TO il the following brief Biographical
.,tb ofthe Chief Justice:
From the Bdhimore imt,ieom
l., Marshall was born in Fauqnicr County,
M, an the 9th of September, I155, the ED
hshaJ Of Col. Thomas Marshall, a planter Of
e,' who had fifteen children. From his
man iibcr the future Chief Justice Of the
NJ. states received the first radimcats of edu-
.', nv him he was introduced into the study
1 .1',r, ,pdpoetrv From his fathers tuition he
II "9 batvrpn his fourteenth and eighteenth
P'>s.' Excessively through the hands of several
As'i ont, Of whom carried him as far As Horace
I;,y. in the Latin CLASSICS. tpon this toun-
5 3'';,a he afterwards made himself Il good Latin
| scholar
.',,scd enthusiastically in the growing eontroyer-
between Great Britain and her American Colo
1c,otinr much time to military exercise in a
q
r. ,k neirbborhood, and to reading the political
,1ys Of the day.
II tha. summer of l775, being in his twentieth
..,,r he was appointed first lieutenant Ola compa-
49, ~ minnie men enrolled for actual service, and
n,s. soon afterwards engaged with the company in
l hattie of the Great Bridge, where the British
rams. under Lori Banmorr, were fepalsed with
arcat'Galantry In July, l716, he WAS transferred
s tr.t lieutenant to the eleventh Virginia regiment
an the Continental establishment. The following
;nter he marched to the North, and in III WAS
nromotcd TO the rank OF captain. lie vas III
4 The battles OF BrandyWin Germantown, and
/ Monmouth. In 1870, he returned home and re-
<,ned the study OF law, while waiting for orders
& from the State Legislature. In the autumn OF the
same wear he obtained a license to practice, and
reioncd the army in which he continued till ISL
when. there being Il redundancy of officers in the
Virginia line hc resigned his commission.
He WIS distinguished in service fer courage and
actiyty and such was the estimation in which he
was held by hi, brother officers thai qaarrels and
noints OF difference among them were often sub
nittedto hi, arbitration, Thus early was he noted
for that union Of sound judgment and INTEGRITY
which la, since given to his decisions yalar and
weight unsurpassed by those Of any other judicial
tribunal IN the world.
lie son rose to cmncnCc al the bar n thc
.
STATE Legislature, aud in the autumn OF the s1mc
year member of the Executive Council. The
following January hc uatred Miss Amber In
1871 he resigned hi, seat in the Council in order to
return to the bar; ana he WIS Immediately after
ward, reelected to the Legislature from Fanqupr
county. In l1S7 he was elected a member for
the county OF ienrieo, Of which ltieIGnond i, the
,5ire town. He engaged warmly in the animated
discussions Of that excited period, and was after
wards member of the convention called in Viz
cnIt To rltiig the Constitution. In l1SS, the lie
gslaure having passed m act allowing repre-.
sentative to tho city oil Richmond he WIS invited
to become candidate, and was elected. He con-
tinaed in the Legislature till 1871, when he retir-
ed, mingling, however, actiyel in the politics Of
the day.
One of the earliest meeting, called to express
public SEN imcnt, as to the conduct Of Citizen
Genet, was at Richmond, and Mr.. Marshall drew
up the resolutions there passed, expressing strong
dsapprobaon Of Genct's course, and aocpsonSc
of the danger of foreign influence. In 1875 ne
was again elected to the Legislature.
About this period he was invited by the presi-
dent Washington 10 accept the office Of Attorney
General; but declined it on account Of ii, inter-
terng with his lucrative practice. tponthe recall
Mr. Monroe as Minister from France, President
Washington solicited him to accept the appoint
mcnt as MIR. Monroe's successor. This offer he
likewise declined. \ year afterwards he was APP
pointed b. President Adams one of the three Con-
missioncrs to be sent to France in place of one
minister. The crisis was alarming, and from a
sense OF public duty he reluctantly accepted the
appointment. lie returned in l79S.
In l199, at the earnest solicitation Of General
Washington, who invited him TO Mount Vernon for
the purpose Of discussing the subject he became
candidate for Congress and was elected. The
distingu shed part he played in the memorable SEES
sion OF l199lS0O is we'll known. In 800, with
out the slightest personal communication, lie was
nominated by the President Secretary Of War, and
Immediately afterwards Secretary of State. Chief
Justice Ellsworth dying about this time. Mr.. Mar
shall was made, on the 3lst of January, 1901,
Chief Justice Of the United States, which post
ono OF the most elevated and important known in
the history of goycnmentS,-hc has occupied for
thrty-ioar years, di,charging lis arduoas and re-
sponsblc functions with the highest credit To HIM
sell and the greatest benefit to his country. He
had reached his eighlinth summcr,& biography can
furnish the lives OF few men, if any, who have had
longer, loitier and purer career.
HONORS TO JUDGE MARSHALL.
On the reception of the news of the death