The age-herald., 1901-02-05

Speaking of MarshalPs part in this serv- ice, he said impressively:
 'To hold the balance true between these poles, to tread the straight and narrow path marked out by law. regardless of po- litical expedency and party politics on the one hand, and of jealousies of the revising power C. the other; to reason out the gov erning principles in such manner as to leave the mind free to pursue it's own course without perplexity, and to commend the conclusions reached to the sober second thought, these demanded that breadth of view that power of generalization, that clearless of expression, that unerring dis cretion, that simplicity and strength of character, and that indomitable fortitude, which, combined in Marshall enabled him to disclose the working lines of that great Republic, whose foundations the men of the revolution laid in the principles of liberty and self-government, lifting up their hearts in the aspiration that they might never be disturbed and looking to that fu- ture when it's lofty towers would rise into the midst of sailing birds and silent air
 At the conclusion of Justice Fullers re- marks, MT. MacVeagh delivered his ora ton.
 Wayne Macveagh's Address.
 He said: To-day is dedicated to the law. I therefore speak to you as lawyer and I congratulate you that it is part of our happy fortune that the occasion which DTlDSS us together OlleTS III llScll us diiP- lest and complete justification. It would indeed have been grave dereliction of duty if the brotherhood of American law yers on the bench and at the bar had not assembled to honor with fitting observances the centennial anniversary of the entrance of John Marshall into the office of chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
 'It is eminently fitting that such an oc- casion be honored by the presence of dis tingushed Senators and Representatives in Congress of the States whose proper and abiding place In governmental system was determined by him; by the presence of members of that illustrious tribunal the vast extent of whose rightful Jurisdiction was determined by him; by the chief magistrate and members of the cab inet. whose subjection to the law was de- termined by him. and other citizens of the country which under his forming hand, in- stead of becoming a dissolube nation en- dowed with all the powers to enable it not only to protect itself against enemies at home and abroad, but also to accept and discharge the splendid and ennobling mis- | sion which has been confided to it in the divine purposes of the education of the world, and which he recognized when, first of all men, he spoke of the Empire of Amer ica-that of securing to the whole Ameri- can continent government of the people, by the people and for the people
 MarshaII's Career.
 MT MacVeagh then scheduled the condi- tion of the colonies as they existed when Marshall was born, in 1775. He traced his career as a soldier, through the revolution,' his subsequent service in the legislature of Virginia in it's constitutional convention; his special mission to the French directory in the interest of peace. He reviewed Mar shalls thirty-fve years service Chief Justice and concluded as follows:
 Although many good and thughtful peo- @1NI, rt,af seems to them an evil promise of the fut- ure, as American lawyers must never for a moment, in dark days or in bright, despair of the Republic Differences of opinion may well exist as to the best meth ods of discharging the duties unexpectedly devolved upon us by war begun with the noble object of helping a struggling peo- pie to secure their independence, but let us trust that, however we may differ as to the methods we all believe that the true glory of America and her true existence in this century as in the old, is what great prelate of the Catholic church has recently declared it to be to stand fast by Christ and the gospel; to cultivate not the Moslem virtues of war; of slaughter, of rapine, and of conquest. but the Christian virtues of self-denial and kindness and brotherly love, and that it Is our mission not to harm, but to help to a better life every fellow creature of whatever color and however weak or lowly
 The Nations Mission.
 "When we came at last to believe that the true mission of nations as of men is to promote righteousness on earth; that con- ferring liberty is wiser than making gain; that new friends are better for us than new markets that love is more eevating than hatred; that peace is nobler than war; that the humblest human right should be re- spected-then our own beloved country can worthily discharge the sacred mission con- fided to her. In cherishing these aspirations and in striving to realize them, we are wholly in the spirit of the great Chief Jus tice, and we can in no other way so eff fectually honor his memory as by laboring in season and out of season to make this whole continent of America one vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace and of lib-
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