The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-18
GENERAL BLACK TALKS
He Delivers q Pine Euio;:y on the Life of
John Marshall.

Chicago, July 17.-When the Illinois
State Bar association met yesterday
morning at the Chicago Beach Hotel
President Hamiin introduced at once
General John c. Black, who delivered
the address on John Marshall" which
he was TO have delivered on Monday.
Gtneral Blacks address was partly
a. eulogy, and he dwelt on the contri-
buttons of Marshall to American jurfs-
prudence He portrayed him as rank
ing with Washington as one of the foun
t1ers of the republic. He referred at
length to MarshalTs decisions against
state sovereignty end depicted the in
stances, including the rebellion, in
which the nation had been compelled to
defend its constitutional powers. The
last case mentioned was the Debs strike
though it was not mentioned by that
name.
General Black said In part:
WAS not Marshall a seer? He knew
that none other than the Continental
Government could or can deal with con-
sinental cffenses. Today San Francisco
is as near to Washington as Boston was
an hundred years ago, and for the pur-
poses of communication no man is fur
Their from his associates than an hours
time anywhere in the union. The tele-
graph. the telephone, the secret signal
code, make possible a conspiracy ram
flying through every state and reaching
into every commonwealth.
How could even a great state Ike
Illinois dead with an insuGrection whose
safnifications extended to ell the states
checked the rolling wheels Of far away
Zines bearing daily bread, stilled the
mighty engines in their roaring ways,
and controlled the tanned lightnings in
their service of civilization? There
IS but one power competent for such
a eask-that power is the national gov
errnent-its the burden, its the duty.
- Il am not of those who believe, or
think they believe, that this government
of ours IS exercising undue power and
thriving on slaughtered rights of per
sons or things, 1 look 10 its courts
and I see justice done, I look 10 its
executives and l see a Jealous regard
for the integrity of the laws. / look
10 its legislature and l see the VIII Of
the people. ever changing in detail, but
eteadfast TO the great purpose OF liberty
and prosperity, working out some
times olindly. sometimes with painful
errors, the integrity OF the union, sub
mission 10 its authority, and the pro-
gress of mankind"
General Black in his peroration said.
''T'he western front OF the capitol
faces toward the City of Washington.
1t overioOks a broad valley 10 where
in the far distance ami beyond the roll
. ing Potomac stretch the Virginian hills
In mid-distance rises the single shaft
without an ornament. majestic, COM
manding. representative. which COM
meTnorates the affection OF his country
men for Washington. In the near fore-
ground. and AZ the feet OF the slope
down which pour the marble stairs. is
esated in comparative obscuriIy the sta
tue of Marshall His hands hold the
= constitution OF his country. while the
republic shall endure that figure viii
sit at the base of the mount whereon
the laws OF this country are declared.
their greatest interpreter. their wisest
formulator. their sereneSt guardian"
When General Black had closed his ai-
dress ex-Judge John NJ Scott read a
paper on Magma Charta. This instru
naent, he said. ought TO be treated To-
gether with the American ordinance
OF 1857. as they were the TWO state pa
pers which had exerted the greatestin =
fuence on civilization.
R. T. Jenkins then Rad q paper on
the jury system Of Chicago. He de-
scribed the statutory method OF select
ing grand jury. He said. whether i,