The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-23
SAVE JOHN MARSHALL'S HOME.


Unexpected opposition to the suggestion of
transferring the historic home of John Marshall
from the City School Board 10 the Society for
the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities came
"a surprise and a disappointment. 1t is to be
hoped that the Council committee having this
matter under consideration will be guided by
the wishes OF majority OF people in Richmond
and the State OF Virginia. and turn the residence
of the father OF the Supreme Court of the United
States over to the kindly and tender hands which
have been extended toward it,
The homes OF General Washington and Thorn
as Jefferson have been preserved ard kept az
their original state as possible. This is due
to the fact that these men were the moulders OF
this republic. John Marshall was the founder
of American Jurisprudence, the first justice OF
the Supreme Court of the United States, and the
judge who. before any other, interpreted the
laws made for the governing OF the nation
The gtrgintan holds the view that it is duty
upon the people of Richmond and Virginia TO
preserve and perpetuate the residence of this
distinguished yirginian. BY letter and word OF
mouth a majority OF persons in this city have
made ii known that they believe it incumbent
upon Richmond and the State to preserve the
Marshall home.
The opposition on the part of the School Board
is not easy to understand. since it In the duty of
the educators of to-day to hand down to the
rising generation the story of John Marshalls
life and achievements. and nothing could more
thoroughly impress the youthful mind than the
home of the jurist
The Society for the Preservation of Virginia
who have already performed great service for
this state Organized more than a quarter OF a
century ago. this society has taken under It's
care numerous historic places and preserved
them against the ravages Of time and the hand
of commercialism, The society in entirely self
sustaining. and at no time has IL called upon the
city of Richmond the State of Virginia for
funds with which to carry its laudable and
patriotic work. 1t has erected bronze and mar
Bile markers in many places throughout the State,
reared monuments where they should have been
placed by the State, and preserved historic
nulIuluRA IN LHciF oTlSluAI CONDITION., all at
great expense of money. energy and time, This
Society. with its countless admirable accomplish
ments in the past, lie the organization to which
IL is planned to transfer the home of John Mar.
shall Its members are willing and anxious to
take charge of the historic house and preserve it
AZ a museum and monument to John Marshall
Opposition to the transfer is based on the fact
that the school authorities need more room.
With the splendid large John Marshall High
School, the City Hall. and the proposed annex
to the latter, il would seem the school officials
had ample room, could find it somewhere
other than the John Marshall house site.
The Vir0taidn wishes to repeat its views on
the subject OF perpetuating John Marshalls
home. which are, that city or State can in no
better way honor the memory OF great man
than by preserving his historic residence that
there Ia no more historic house In Richmond
than the home Of John Marshall, and that there
more kindly hands into which 10 commit
the future of such memento of the pest than
those OF the Society for the Preservation of vir.
gnis Antiquities
We hope the dark clouds" will roll away from
the band concerts to stay. -------