Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-08-07
F. P. BLAIR
To Tie Editors Of Me Whig.

tIcHMOND, August i, 1895.
- DentieInen--l had but just returned from visit 10
North Carolina when Mr. f. F. Blars letter addressed
TO you, dated the 23d july handed me for perusa
have read ii; and as find Mr. Blair has thou9ht 81 IN
Introduce my name into it, touching a conversation
held with him the subject of the late rcycred Chief
justice OF the United States, will detail what took
place. according to the best of my recollection and
winch related TO you in the course of free and friend
ly conversational conversation never int nded for the
press, and which told you must not that shape
GU promised me 1t should not and you have kept your
wofd-for IN no part Of the paragraph extracted by Mr.
BAR IS there an alusion to what said what pass
ed between
" in the first place, Mr. Blair is mistaken in saving
that the conversation that led to the ausion i'm regard
TO the contemplated monument to Judge Marshall arose
between Mr. White of Richmond and himself Not
syllable the subject of monument 10 he erocted
at Washington, or elsewhere passed between US I did
not know, at that tme that such thing had been talked
OF, nuch less proposed However, as Mr. Blair has
made II incumbent TO detail for the press what Aid
pass on tho occasion alluded TO- Will do in as concise
manner as possible.
II on Friday morning The 10Th If Julv beioo III
Gay following that on which the remains Of the Chief
Justice had passed up the river i'm the steamboat that
was introduced to the President and Mir Blair at the
hP itaPs Shortly after was seated the President
CURED Of me, If knew whether the body of the Chief
Justice had passed mp the river the day before I
replied that such was the Teport AZ Old Paint -
Colonel Earle also said, that he heard at the Point
that such the fact; and that he also understood
population of citizens Of Philadelphia along viii,
General Scott, had accompanied the body 10 Rich.
mond Mr.. Blair then took occasion 10 remark that
with him, the honors paid to Judge Marshall lost much
OF their interest when he recolccted the frequent de-
csons he had made in his Lifetime and which, in his
opinion, were at variance with the letter and spirit Of
our Constitution. told Mr. Blair that that was not tie
hfst Tune had heard the same similar charges brought
against some OF the Opinions of the Chief Justice; but
that had never known an individual when those opi
Mons were spread before him. who able 10 point out
wherein he differed from Mr.. Marshall Mr. Blair re-
pied, that nc believed he could and cited Mr. jefferson
as good authority to sustain him. particularly in the case
OF the Cohens BE also rcproboied the Marbcrry case
ana called my attention TO third, which has escaped
my memory at this moment. lie farther remarked that
Mr. Marshall was too much Of Fcdernist ! replied
that believed the Fcderaliss be as pure patriots as
any men ~ our country; TO which The President respond
ca, SO do l. Mr. White, If You mean the Washinato-
nian federasts, but not the Blue Light ones" I ex-
pressed my enro concurrence with the President on this
head
Mr. Blair s likewise IN in saying that the Pre-.
sdcnt did not join n the conversation touching the ST.