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animated by a love of justice as a ruling passion. Samuel Chase had labored zealously and successfully to change the sentiments of Maryland so as to authorize him to vote for

the Declaration of Independence, of which he was one of the signers. He 'was of impos ing stature and wielded the pow er of an ener getic eloquence, but he was irascible, vain, MARSHALL'S overbearing, and ASSOCIATES ON sometimes tyran THE BENCH. nical, with an Mark the perinstinct for sons of the tumult and a Judges. The faculty for pro youngest was moting insurrec Alfred Moor e, tion at the Bar. small in stature, William Pat neat in dress er s o n was a and graceful in member of the manner, with a convention which framed the Con clear and sono stitution. He con rous voice, a keen sense of tended that its humor, a bril proper object was liant wit, and a mere revision overpower i n g and extension of JOHN MARSHALL. logic, and a style the Articles of FROM Л SILHOUETTE HANGING ON THE WALLS OF THE as an advoConfederation, VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. cate lucid and and proposed in By courtesy of The ll'orld's U'ork. direct, terse and that body what compact. was known as the Bushrod Washington, the nephew of the New Jersey plan, which preserved the sov Father of his Country, was a man of solid ereignties of States in their integrity and gave rather than brilliant mind, sagacious and the general government power to provide for searching rather than quick and eager, of the common defense and general welfare. Next the Chief Justice on his right, was temperate yet firm disposition, simple and re served in manner, clear in statement, learned William Gushing, appointed by Washington. in discussion, accurate in reasoning, and A son of one of the Judges who presided at the trial of the British soldiers for the massa 1 Mr. Chief Justice Fuller.

sided over its deliberations, had dealt with such of the governmental problems as arose, in a manner worthy of its high mission; but it was not until the questions that emerged from the exciting struggle of 1800 brought it into play, that the scope of the judicial power was de veloped and de clared, and its significant e ffect upon the future of the country recog nized.1