Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-02-15


and other state officers. with the judges |
OF the supreme court OF the state are do
ing homer TO this great chief justice
and so all over the country. The great
cites Of New York, Chicago, Boston
st. Louie, San Francisco, Portland, and
others, and all tho great institutions of
learning and the common :hools,
North, South, East and West are doing
him houor; and we are here ID join in
the acclaim, and adj or tribute of
praise and honor to the grand cd man
OF America for the services he has rem
dered the country. We are in the habit
OF commemorating the life and services
OF our great men, and the names of
Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Lincoln,
Grant and many others. have become
as household words in our land. 1t is
peculiarly appropriate and proper that
in country governed by law where
no man can be deprived Of life, liberty
or properly without due process Of law,"
that We should gratefully remember one
who aided so much il giving us the
blessings of written constitution and
whose life and services now at a dis
tance OF one hundred years, loom up
above his surroundings, like Mount Hood
above the Cascades, impressing all be-
holders with the thonght of grandeur
strength and purity.
It is difficult to speak of the life and
services of Iohn Marshall without re-
peating somewhat the history of the
revolutionary war for American inde-
pendence, the formation of the censtitu-
tion of the United States, its adoption and
being placed in operation under the
guiding hand of the father of his cenn-
try," for he was m efficient man as a
soldier, lawyer, statesman and jurist in
these great and important transactions.
He was. SO to speak, the right arm OF
George Washington in many of the most
important events that transpired during
that eventful period, and maintained
until the close of Washington's life the
high personal regard and esteem, and
warm personal friendship Of that great
man.
i John Marshall holds the same rela
tien to the American bar that. George
| Washington does to the American peo-
pie, From whatever point OF view We
consider the character, life and services
of the great chief justice, he is entitled
to the respect, affection and gratitude
of the American people. At the age o.
. twenty he joined military company
!; and on the arrival Of the news of tie
battle of Lexington and the march o
. Patrick Henry upon Williamsburg, he ad
dressed the company in eloquent terms
urging them to prepare for every emer-
gency. In July. 1775, he was made
lieutenant in the 11th Virginia regi-
ment, on continental service anc
marched to the North. From the TIME
of his entrance into the army to The
close OF 1779. Marshall was in active ser
vice. He took part in the battles o.
Brandywine, Germantown and Mon
mouth. He shared the hardships and
suferings of the troops at Valley Forge
, with unvarying good humor and san-
) guine hopefulness. At this. period he
: frequently acted as deputy judge advo.
! cate, and secured the warm regard oil
| Washington. At the close OF the wal
he began practice as an attorney and his
success was marked from the COM
mencement. His extraordinary compre.
hension and grasp of mind, by which
difficulties were seized and overcome
without difficulty or parade, commanded
the attention and respect Of the courts oi
Justice.
4 In 1883 the Virginia convention to
act upon the constitution of the
United States had been assembled. and
| Marshall was member. He took q
conspicuous stand by the side Of James
Madison, Edward Pendleton and other
| distinguished advocates of its adoption
His defense of the constitution against
its assailants was mastery. On three
occasions the debate on taxation, the
. Indians and on the power over the mil.
, itia, he gave full scope to his powerful log
! ic and massive faculty of reasoning. The
instrument was finally accepted by q
vote of 80 to 70.
{ Marshall and Madison were Justly re-
garded as having done more for the
adoption of the federal plan of govern
than any other members of the cenven.
tion. 1 sometimes think that we dc
not sufficiently appreciate the labors
the genius and the ability of those naer
who, by their unwearied exertions
: secured for us the adoption and blessings
: OF a written constitution upon which
has grown up government which i:
. the wonder and admiration of the civ
, ilized world and Blessing to seventy
five millions of people.
J, II, as Cicero informs us, in ancien
Rome the very boys were obliged ts
learn the twelve tables by heart as an in
fdispansahle Lesson tn in,pr;nf IN 4ba;