The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-02-08
JOHN MARSHALL.

thlISO sclales hbO6D as the american
Bar Association.
1t is made up principally of emf
nent lawyers Of New York, Philsdel-
phia, Boston, Princeton and other cit
les of that section of our Union. Its
meetings are generally held at Sara
tOga, the fashionable resort of Amer
lean milliOnaires. No meeting of the
association has ever been held south
of the Potomac nor west of the Missis-
sippi.
This association made the celebra-
ton of the one hundredth anniver-
sary of the day on which John Mar
shall was made chief justice of the
| Supreme Court Of the United States
a notable event IN the principal cities
throughout the country.
This anniversary was celebrated in
Atlanta, Jacksonville aud other cities
in the south.
The euIogies were, Of course, very
lAudatory. For instance, Hon. Jno.
f. Hartridge said in his speech at the
Jacksonville banquet that Marshall
gave the first authoritative decIara-
ton that the Supreme Court had the
right and power to declare AL act of
congress a violation OF the consJitu-
ton, and void, and, in the United
States -. Judge Peters, held that leg
islation of the States could not annul
the judgments of the United States
Courts, and supported his views with
a logic that was unanswerable. He
laid the foundation stone for the
! greatness and the unity Of the States.
Any other construction would have
been ruinous 10 the countr-'. We
would have become in time a horde Of
petty republics without influence
abroad or strength at home, and in
tsrnal quarrels and warfare would
have brought shapes hot from Tarta-
rus to sit a. our household gods The
drawn dagger, the fire and the sword
would have been our lares and PEN
ates, and We would not be nation
strong, great and powerful, as We are.
Ii is true that Chief Justice Mar
shall believed in the theory of a
strong, centralized government,
against which Thomas Jefferson
fought 50 desperately and bravely.
No one questions the Integrity Of
Johu Marshall. No one questions
the purity of his public and his pri-
vate life. No one questions his Iumi-
. nous legal mind. Bat, unfortunately,
. his political manner Of thinking was
opposed To the jeGersoniau creed of
/ government, which we believe, and
. al Huo train ia jhe school Of J-flr-
SON believe. is ths life Of the rtpal,jc.
IN reviewing tae life of John Mar
shall, as he really was. Hon. Juo. W.
! Aiken, "a brilliant Georgia lawyer, in
the Atlanta Journal OF February 4,
says:
According t3 sIa-shall-s Gsctrn- inIpre ~siv-ly
4 a1I rgr-i>teutly maintained as long Us he
lived uati11a, citizenship was the dominant cit
izenshi0. the citizens first allegiance was 60
the national and not 70 the state government
the constitution was not compact between the
/ states but an ordinance o. one people, and
. ( therefore the Union could not PC dissolved, and
consequently secession was treason and seceders
were rebels one Of the latest writers on the
Constitutional History q: the United States
Thorpe vol. p page $50 j. undoubtedly lustl
/ fed IN declaring Ct John Marshall that II may
DC asserted. boldly. that he would not have sus
tanned az act Of secession. and this author, fol
lowing story j. a sympathetic sdmirer y
/ other tsi- Inference San be drawn -tom lic sen
e-aI trend Of NIa-shail.s judicial dciverarccs.
Further along in his article he
says:
Itvya. 7ehu lIlrsh1,ls decisions which pre-
vakel t--m Thomas Jefferson this terrible IN
afet-neut Cl fedora courts
.-It has long been NV opinion that thc germ
I OF dissolution Of our tederal government - ~
the constitution o. the federal lUclciaTy. an 1T
-e-ncn-ihle body working like gravity by "a,
1 and br night. gaining little today and ny
I tomorrow and adyarcinglt- uoi-t.-S~ step i&'
thiet over the e1LG o. jurisdiction until al
4 >hal. Zee -su-peG-
Again he says:
II was John Narsha.r~ decision which pro
v,l7l III. wrath Of Andrew Jackson and moved
him 10 say. John Marshall has rendered In
su5ement NON by the eternal. let linn 81
s,--e 4. .- and i was Andrew Jackson Who, a
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