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VOL. XIII.

No. 4.

BOSTON.

JOHN

APRIL, 1901.

MARSHALL. I.

SOLDIER, LAWYER, STATESMAN, AND MAN. THE John Marshall Day addresses were so many in number and so excellent in char acter that it has been found impossible to include in one number of THE GREEN BAG all that it seemed essential to reprint from these addresses. It has been necessary, therefore, to change the plan announced last month; and, instead, the Marshall article will be pub lished in two parts. The present instalment is given to the consideration of John Marshall's career as soldier, lawyer and statesman, and of his character as a man. To the May issue is left the consideration of Marshall as judge and jurist. Naturally most of the orators dealt with their subject from the legal standpoint; some of them, indeed, confined them selves wholly to the consideration of that side; so that it happens that a number of the distinguished speakers on John Marshall Day are not represented in the present number. — The Editor. IX his eloquent address at Richmond, Vir ginia, Mr. Justice Gray, of the Supreme Court, quotes from a letter from Chief Jus tice Marshall, dated Richmond, March 22, 1818, and addressed to Joseph Delaplaine, Esq., Philadelphia, the following autobiog raphy of the Chief Justice: "I was born on the 24th of September, 1755, in the county of Fauquier, in Virginia. My father, Thomas Marshall, was the eldest son of John Marshall, who intermarried with a Miss Markham, and whose parents migrated from Wales, and settled in the county of Westmoreland, in Virginia, where my father was born. My mother was named Mary Keith; she was the daughter of a clergyman of the name of Keith who mi grated from Scotland, and intermarried with a Miss Randolph on James River. T was ed ucated at home, under the direction of my father, who was a planter, but was often called from home as a surveyor. From my infancy I was destined for the bar; but the ¡

contest between the mother country and her colonies drew me from my studies and my father from the superintendence of them; and in September, 1775, I entered into the service as a subaltern. I continued in the army until the year 1781, when, being with out a command, I resigned my commission, in the interval between the invasions of Vir ginia by Arnold and Phillips. In the year 1782 I was elected to the Legislature of Vir ginia, and in the fall session of the same year was chosen a member of the Executive Council of that State. In January, 1783, I intermarried with Mary Willis Ambler, the second daughter of Mr. Jacquelin Ambler, then Treasurer of Virginia, who was the third son of Mr. Richard Ambler, a gentleman who had mi grated ' from England, and settled at York-town, in Virginia. In April, 1784, I re signed my seat in the Executive Council, and came to the bar, at which I continued, declining any other public office than a seat