The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-02-07
MARSHALL H0NORED
Exercises at Capitol In Memory
OF the Great JuriSt.
ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY
Whole Country Gives Praise to
One Who Only Sought Truth
and the Right.

A Washington special says: John
Marshall, of Virginia, was installed as
chief Justice of the United States one
hundred years ago last Monday, and
at 10 o'clock on the morning of that
day the centennial anniversary of that
occasion was celebrated with impress
s;ve ceremonies in the hall OF the house
of Representatives at the capital.
The program arranged by the joint
committee of congress and William
Writ Howe, of New Orleans, president
of the American Bar Association, was
simple and dignifed, as became the
life of the great jurist.
The president and his cabinet, the
members of the supreme court, the
members of the senate and house, the
diplomatic corps and members OF the
district bar association attended as in
vited guests.
Many other distinguished persons
were in the galleries, which were re-
served for those holding cards of ad-
mission. Although the various off,
cial bodies entered the hall together,
they we're not announced az on formal
occasions. President Mckinley and
the members of the cabinet were the
last to arrive. The entire assemblage
rose and remained standing until they
had seated themselves.
Representative Da|zell, Of Pennsyl-
vania, called the assemblage to order.
He stated briefly the action of congress
in providing for the ceremonies and
the selection CT Chief Justice Fuller
as presiding officer.
The chief justice, in his official
robes, was escorted to the. chair by
Representatives Grosvenor, of Ohio,
and richardson, of Tennessee.
Rev. DR.. William Strother Jones. of
Trenton, N. j., great grandson OF
John Marshall, invoked the divine
blessing. Then the chief justice in
troduced Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, who
delivered the oration, an eloquent
tribute to the memory of John Mar
shall, which evoked hearty applause
from the assemblage.
The chief justice of the supreme
court, Mr.. Fuller, then addressed the
assemblage.
Chief Justice Fuller's address was
devoted almost entirely to the consid-
Grafton of his predecessors career as
an expounder of the federal constitu-
ton.
Mr.. McVeegh spoke for two hours
aud closed his oration with thrust at
imperialism. He reviewed MARSHALL s
thirt, five years as chief justice, the
great epoch making decisions in which
he participated; his tremendous infu-
ence in the settlement of the great
constitutional controversies. and con.
concluded in part as follows:
"Although many good and thought
full people are just now greatly troubled
at what seems to them an evil promise
of the future, as American lawyers we
must never for a moment, in dark
days or in bright, despair of the re-
public. Differences of opinion may
we'll exist as to the best methods OF
discharging the grave and serious du-
ties Unexpectedly devolved upon us
by war begun with the noble object
of helping a struggling people 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 mission
in the new century as in the old.
"When We come at last to believe
that the true mission of nations as OF
men is to promote righteousness on
earth; that comforting liberty is wiser
than making gain; that new friends
are better for US than new markets;
that love is more elevating than ha'
tired; that peace is nobler than war;
that the humblest human life is sacred;
that the humblest human right should
be respected-then our own beloved
country can worthily discharge the
sacred mission confined to her and by
her true dignity and grandeur, setting
her feet upon the shining pathway
which leads to the sunlit submits OF
the olive mountains, and taking abund'
ant care that every human creature
beneath her starry flag, of every color
and condition, is as secure of liberty,
of justice and of peace as in the re-
public OF God
"In cherishing these aspirations
and in striving to realize them we are
wholly in the spirit of the great chief
justice, and we can in no other way 80
etfectually honor his memory as by
laboring, in season and out OF season,
to make this whole continent of Amer
lea one vast and splendid monument,
not OF oppression and terror, but OF
wisdom, of peace and of liberty, on
which men may gaze with admiration
forever.