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 Joint Marshall. tional opinion and doctrine at the North that held the Union together; to that combina tion in him, of a great statesman's sagacity, a great lawyer's lucid exposition and persua sive reasoning, a great man's candor and breadth of view, and that judicial authority on the bench, allowed naturally and as of right, to a large, sweet nature, which all men loved and trusted, capable of harmonizing differences and securing the largest possi ble amount of cooperation among discord ant associates. In a very great degree, it was Marshall, and these things in him, that have wrought out for us a strong and great nation, one which men can love and die for; that "mother of a mighty race," that stirred the soul of Bryant half a century ago, as he dreamed how,

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"The thronging years in glory rise, And as they fleet, Drop strength and riches at thy feet;" the nation whose image flamed in the heart of Lowell, a generation since as he greeted her coming up out of the Valley of the Shadow of Death: "O Beautiful! my Country! ours once more! Among the nations bright beyond com pare! . . . What were our lives without thee: What all our lives to save thee? We reck not what we gave thee; We will not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare!" г 1 Professor Thayer.