The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-17
HJOHN MARSHALL, ;"
THEME OF POWERFUL ADORE s
BYJUDGE SPEER.

Marshall a Member of Large Family
Lacked College Education-As a
Law Student-AuthOr of the Famous
Phrase About Observation-Disclosures
tiaI in Adoption of Constitutional
Great Judge.
Yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock in
Hendrie hall the Hon. Emory Speer
gave the second of his lectures in the
Storrs series. His subject was John
Marshall and it was treated in the
same mastery and powerful manner
that he displayed last Monday after
noon in his address upon Alexander
Hamilton" His great ability as an
orator brought forth frequent applause,
and his attentive audience of students
and of ladies and gentlemen, which al
most filled the large lecture hall, gave
him perfect ovation of applause at
the close of his address.
The following lectures will complete
the course:
Friday, May 18-"A Southern Yale
Law School Man Of the Forties,"
Saturday, May 19.-"Rbert E. Lee"
Monday, May presidential Of
fee
Judge Speer spoke in part as follows.
John Marshall was born in German
town. Va, on September "a, 1885, the
Oldest of the fifteen children Of Colonel
Thomas Marshall, small planter, who
served with great honor as an officer
of the revolution.
John Marshall never attended college
but at home he was made familiar
with the best of English literature. He
attended the law lectures of the fam
GUS George Wythe at William and
Mary college in the winter Of 1879, while
an officer of the Virginia troops that
were encamped at Williamsburg, where
he often served as judge-adyocate in
the courts martial. The following sum
mer he was admitted to the bar. Soon
after the war being over he resigned
and began the practice Of law in Rich
mond, Va.
January 8, 1888, now being twenty
eight years Of age, he happily married
Mary Hamblen. Marshall was indeed
a devoted lover. A letter written to her
WhWen three score and ten attested the
Whenthree score and ten attested the
In 1873 continental dollar was only
worth two and one-half cents. and II
was then that the expression was add
cd to our vocabulary Of mot worth a
continental And the army suffered
hardships untold, which were only fully
understood by John Marshall, besides
by George Washington and Alexander
Hamilton.
On June 2, 177S, at Richmond. the
Virginians met in convention to discuss
the adoption Of the Constitution. Pat
rick Henry, With ready dramatic flow
Of oratory declared that its adoption
would be the forerunner of a despotic
king and monarchy. John Marshall
at the time was only thirty three years
of age, but by his answer to Patrick
Henry, in clear concise argument, won
the day for the adoption of the Consti-
tuition in the convention on June rs,
1878, by a majority of ten,
He became secretary of state, and
also served his country as ambassador
to France, and negotiated the purchase
of Louisiana, which at once raised the
United States more than any other one
thing in the estimate of Europe.
Upon his return to this country, after
a vigorous campaign, he was elected
to congress IN 1899, where he was one
of the ablest federalists in the house.
The first duty he was called upon to
perform was the presenting of resp
luton to congress upon the death of
the Father Of Our Country, when he
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