Show JUDGE GARY ON MARSHALL I j In response to a motion to adjourn his court over February lIlt John Marshall day Judge Joseph E Gary I of Chicago said v So long as the United Statc xf I i America remains a Nation with a Government Gov-ernment framed upon Lime Constitution of the United States the fame of John Marshall the great Chief Justice of the Supreme court of the United StsHeT will endure as the expositor and expounder ex-pounder of that Constitution Ills judgments uro landmarks4 for the guidance of IlLl generations I But that fame Is not a pyramid resting rest-ing on the broad basis of the reverential reveren-tial gratitude of the whole people i His name Is not a household word as Is Washingtons or Lincolns UJA an obelisk that fame rises from the admiring appreciation of one profession I pro-fession Not that he was a lawyer only but I his services to his country as u aoldlei1 and legislator are forgotten as Is his labor as a biographer But as a lawyer he was a statesman who stoutly held and logically enforced the theory that the United States of America are a Nation one and > Indivisible Indi-visible a theory that only the greatest war of modern limes made incontestable incontest-able ableAnd And In KO holding and enforcing that theory making It by apart a-part of the Constitution Itself HUH bin chief claim perpetual remembrance by his countrymen So are thty Iill scno of u great Nation powerful for f their protection abroad sharing In Its prosperity at home and proud of its glory glorJohn John Marshall a unique figure in the line of American jurists As James Kent was the father of American chancery so was John Marshall Mar-shall the father of American Constitutional Constitu-tional law Ills long service at the head of the court highest In authority of all in the world his Inexorable logic by which if his premises were conceded his con f elusions were inevitable the multitude and variety of his judicial opinions I place him at the head of the list of eminent Judges who have adorned their positions and instructed the lawyers of I a great and growing Nation |