Chief Justice John Marshall : Marshall Day Address, Cornell University, February 4, 1901
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Even Henry praised his "candor" and awarded him "veneration and respect," and Wirt tells us the secret of his won- derful power. He saw always, at once and as if by intuition, the pivotal point of every controversy on which the conclu- sion was sure to swing, and, disdaining all artifice and discarding all incident or accident surroundings, moved straight upon it and enveloped it with a merciless logic. Every link in the chain of his reasoning was sound and clean, developed with a marvelous sim...plicity as clear as it was strong. There was no escape from the deadly sequence of his thought, add his masterful capacity lay in his power to compel conviction, to force surrender. But not yet was his preparation com- plete. It seemed almost as if some Provi- dence was training him like an athlete for a struggle vital to a free Civilization. For he passed a term in Congress ming- ling with statesmen and with partisans and studying the ways of each : then went to France on a diplomatic mission and returned disgusted with a race which vilified everything American, and not for the last time either, as we were taught during our war with Spain and should not pardon quite so cheaply as we do ; next was made Secretary of War and then Secretary of State where the methods of diplomacy and the doctrines of interna- tional law became familiar to his thought ; and finally and at last, the preparation ended, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the man whom we saw quietly taking his seat on the Bench.
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