Show CHIEF JUSTICE ulan HIS gilr while in attendance nt sunday school convention at washington mason county in tins slate I 1 was invited with several others tn di alie family of alio lion martin P mar eliell a resilient of alio village mr marshall is ono of alio bosl gifted and cultivated inen of alio state lie WAS at one lime somewhat prominent in public au aars ho is now advanced in years however and is living alio life of a retired private citizen iio is a nephew of the iron john marshall deceased formerly chief justice of tho united states nn il was in the earlier years of his lifo 1 member of the s family in conversation in to ills uncle ho spoke in term of the warmest admiration mi ration of hij character daily intercourse with him had taught hiim to rc aero rero and love him aiu dwelt barly upon alic simplicity and beauty of hiis private life lie was his model of what a husband should bo to alio difo of his bosom in respect to the love which lie should cherish for her the tenderness with aich lio should watch over glicr and nurse her in failing health and alio fondness with which bic think of her when death had taken her from his amis rising in the midst of his remarks our host another gentleman and myself who were listening to him into his private apartment and opening a drawer he took out and read to ns a paper written by alio justice on alio birst anniversary of his cifes death in memory of his love for her and of the excellences of her life and character I 1 asked him if the laid over been published lie said that it had not that lie had kept it sacred as a legacy and had never obtained his own consent to let it bo g n en to the public I 1 said to liim that I 1 thought thit it ought to bo published is I 1 believed eliat it would bo read with interest and profit by all into whose hands it would come just then wo wore called to dinner afterward tho conversation in regard to tho paper was renewed and before I 1 left the mr yielded hh consent to have it published and handed it to me for thai purpose A copy of it is herewith wilh tho belief that its publication will increase alio which alio of this country already feel for alic memory of its author and at the same time en their appreciation of tho domestic n etues which were so beautifully and admirably illustrated in tho life of tho justice u s 20 23 csc this day of joy and festivity to the whole christim Ch world is to ray sad heart alio anniversary of the keenest which humanity can sustain while all around is gladness my mind dwells on alio silent tomb and cherishes tho re mcm branco of the beloved object it contains on the ath of it was the will of heaven to take to itself the coin panion who had sweetened tho choicest pirt of my life biad rendered toil a pleasure had partaker partaken par taken of all my feelings and was enthroned in tho inmost i of my heart never can I 1 caaso to feel alio loss and to deplore it diet for her is too sacred ever to be profaned on this day shall bo during my existence demoted to her memory on the ad of january 1783 I 1 was united by the hollest holiest bonds to the woman I 1 adored aiom the hour of our union to that of our separation I 1 never ceased to biank heaven for this its best gift kot a moment passed in which I 1 did not consider glicr as a blessing from which alio chief happiness of my cifu was de rived this never dying sentiment origin abing in love was cherished by a ion and close observation of a amiably and e etim ible qui lilios aa ever adorned the female bosom to a parson which in youth wa svery attractive to manners uncommonly pleasing she added a fine understanding and the sweetest temper which can accompany a just and modest sense of clial was duo to herself 1 I saw her arst the week she attained lie ago of fourteen and was greatly pleated with her girls then came into company much earlier alian at present As my attentions though without any avowed purpose nor so open and direct as to alarm soon became ardent and assiduous glicr heart received an impression which could be effaced having felt no prior attachment she became at sixteen a mot devoted wife all my faults and they were loo many coufa never weaken this it formed a part of glicr existence her judgment was so sound and so safe that I 1 have often relied upon it in situations of somo perplexity I 1 do not remember ever to have regretted alic adoption of her opinion I 1 hinc regretted its rejection from native timidity she was opposed to everything ous yet few lv jalcs more real firmness that timidity so glicr man ncik I 1 could rarely prevail on her to display in company knew her tu possess flioy wore reserved for her huband anil her select friends though eurious as well as in her deportment alio possessed n good dual of chaste delicato dc licato aud if rho aci herself lo 10 indulge this talent told her story with grace ind could m very successfully tho peculiarities of the person who was alio llio she had a fine for ballo lettre reading which wa judiciously applied in the selection of ehe admired this ty by improving glicr for conversation contributed not inconsiderably sider ably to ako her a mot desirable and agreeable companion it beguiled many of winter durin which her protracted ill health and her feeble L system us entirely to each oilier I 1 can never caaso lo 10 look bacic oa with deep interest and regret time has not diminished anil will not diminish ali is and tins regret in all llin of lifo sho was a model which those to whom it was phan cannot imi tito loo clo acly As the wife tho mother tho mistress of 1 family and the fric nil an example to those who could observe intimately winch will not bo forgotten sho felt deeply tho distress of others and indulged alio feeling liberally on objects sins believed to bo she was n for sho pie served to glicr ezit moment aliis among bior carl iut and deepest impressions giro cliar acter to her aholo cifu hers wai thu ro ligion li alio savior of min alio wis cheerful mild serious aniu inc in lent on scalf and iho im of looked to her foi precept ami example she was a hrin believer in iho aich by tho church in she was bred but liei soft and temper was 0 adopting the gloomy and austere damu boino ot its professor h ivo so alil to on it 1 have jost her and with glicr I 1 have lost the of my life yot she remains still the companion of my retired still occupies my inmost boum when alone and my buind unceasingly occurs to her more than 1 thousand limes since the of december 1831 have I 1 repented to mj self tho ul lines written by burgoyne Burgo yno under a similar substituting sti mary for anna in an framo loy abon all ii tart its aal tako its own worth my anrys cb arnil inn never anro roi iru what bow hall nil thoice farms acniel biru ahioola ah mul my marys aim harpers magazine |