And now I must stop. I have tried, however imperfectly, to give some picture of the singularly attractive personality of the great man whom we commemorate, some intimation of his remarkable qualities and achievements as a judge, some comment, and even some criticism here and there, some reflections upon the present aspects of that great subject in which he was most distinguished, and some forecast of what is to be desired and hoped for in that field.

Poor indeed must my efforts have been if they do not leave in your minds a feeling of affectionate reverence for Chief Justice Marshall, of admiration for his surpassing powers and his patriotic devotion of them to the service of his country, of gratitude to the Almighty Father of nations and of men that such a life, such a character, and such gifts were vouchsafed to our country in its early days, and of devout trust that as God has been to our fathers, so he will be to us, and to our children, and our children's children.

PROCEEDINGS at the Dinner GIVEN AT THE NEW ALGONQUIN CLUB UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION.

Introductory Remarks of John C. Gray, President of the Boston Bar Association, at the Dinner given at the Algonquin Club.

I have two telegrams which I wish to read. The first is from Mr. Beverly B. Munford, the Chairman of the Joint Committee of the State of Virginia and of the Richmond City Bar Association: "Virginia sends her first greetings to Massachusetts on this centennial anniversary. All

honor to Marshall, the great Chief Justice, and to Massachusetts who called him to the bench." (Applause.)

I have another telegram from the coming city of the country Chicago! "Illinois sends greeting to Massachusetts. The American bench and bar are united in one common brotherhood on this historic day." (Applause.)

Brethren, there has been so much eloquence to-day about Chief Justice Marshall, and we hope that there will be so much more, that I have but one word to say, and that, I think, is a word appropriate to this occasion. Chief Justice Marshall was a star of the first magnitude, but he was one of a constellation. Great bars make great judges. Chief Justice Marshall would never have reached his eminence alone, nor if his early legal associates had been a company of ignorant and pettifogging attorneys. He was a member of a bar which has had no superior in ability and no equal in learning, and the bar of Virginia may take to itself a considerable portion of the praise which is the just due of the great Chief Justice.

We are fortunate here to-night in having an eminent member of the bar of Virginia with us. As with us, so with them, the profession is apt to be hereditary. For four generations the family of our distinguished guest has furnished eminent lawyers to the bar of Virginia, and it gives me a particularly personal pleasure to say that for four generations they have furnished eminent professors of law. Gentlemen, let me introduce to you the Hon. Henry St. George Tucker, of Virginia. (Loud applause, the members of the Association rising to their feet.)

Address of Professor Tucker.

The interest which this occasion inspires is enhanced no little by the reflection that on this day, throughout the

length and breadth of the land, courts of justice are closed to litigants, commerce and trade partially suspended, and the association of lawyers in forty-five States of the Union, as well as schools devoted to instruction in the science of the law, have temporarily laid aside their daily routine, to unite in doing honor to the memory of the great Chief Justice. The partiality of your committee, to which I owe the privilege, as a son of Virginia, of uniting with this goodly fellowship of kindred spirits of the ancient Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the celebration of this day, will always be cherished by me as among the most pleasing compli ments of my life. The renewal of the ties of friendship between the two States of Virginia and Massachusetts can be no less happy in its results than the study and exaltation of the life and character of the great man whose memory we meet to honor.

Diversity of race, of institutions, of modes of life, of habits of thought, and of political ambitions have in the years gone by often brought them into serious and dangerous antagonism; but the mutual respect of each for the other in the sturdy maintenance of its peculiar views has been steadfastly maintained and rarely questioned, even by the most extreme, in the time of hottest conflict. Nor should it be forgotten that when by the act of 6th George III. the power to legislate in all cases for the colonies by Parliament was asserted, followed by the passage of the Boston Port Bill, these bills were communicated to the Assembly of Virginia, their indignant protest was entered at once against them, and that, though dissolved by Lord Dunmore, and prevented from further action by him in their official capacity, the members of that body at once assembled as individuals in the

long room at the Raleigh Tavern in the city of Williamsburg, unawed by official despotism, and adopted those resolutions never to be forgotten by the sons of these two great Commonwealths,-"We are, farther, clearly of the opinion that an attack made on one of our sister-colonies to compel submission to arbitrary taxes is an attack made on all British America, and threatens ruin to the rights of all, unless the united wisdom of the whole be applied.' May we not pause to express the hope that the spirit of these resolutions may be the future spirit of the States of this great Union, that the threatened blow of arbitrary power at any one of them from foreign or domestic foe may unite the hearts of all to defend the one, as part of the whole?

Judge Marshall's judicial reputation can safely be left in the masterful opinions which filled our reports for more than a third of a century, and will remain unimpaired after the musty volumes which contain them have fallen to dust. In logical power and power of analysis they have certainly never been excelled, and it may well be doubted if they have ever been equaled on any bench. It is my purpose to ask you to turn for a moment with me this evening from a consideration of John Marshall the judge, to that of John Marshall the citizen; and I do this the more readily because of the ample vindication which his judicial career has received this day at the hands of our distinguished brother Thayer, of Harvard University.

At an early period of Virginia's history, at Turkey Island, a plantation some fifteen or twenty miles from the city of Richmond, near the scene of the terrific battle of Malvern Hill, lived the Virginia planter, William Randolph. He was the ancestor of all of that name in Vir

ginia, and from him descended, in direct line, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and Robert E. Lee,- a triumvirate of civic, judicial and military power. Sprung from a distinguished lineage, trained in a school where the amenities of life as well as "the humanities taught in their highest excellence, John Marshall practiced from his earliest childhood a scrupulous regard for the rights and feelings of others and an indulgence to all faults except his own.

With a self-control and equipoise which were rarely disturbed under the most trying circumstances, and a graciousness of manner which broke down all barriers, giving to the humblest as well as to the highest the assurance of his friendly consideration, and a mind welldisciplined by education in the highest schools and under the tutelage of his father, a man of superior education and intelligence, it was impossible that he could have been other than a man of mark and influence in his State.

Would it be claiming too much to say that John Marshall, the citizen, was the natural product of the civilization existing in Virginia during his boyhood and manhood,— a civilization which, alas, except here and there in certain localities, is fast passing away. The home, not the club, was its centre; the family, its unit. The father was the head of the family, not the joint-tenant with the wife of a house, nor the tenant-at-will of his wife. The wife and the mother was the queen of the household, not merely a housekeeper for a husband and family. Obedience to those in authority was the first lesson exacted of the boy. Inculcated with tenderness, it was enforced with severity if need be, until the word of the father or the expressed wish of the mother carried