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Title: The life of John Marshall
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927
Subjects: Marshall, John, 1755-1835 United States. Supreme Court Statesmen Judges
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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first Western repsonse to Roane's call to arms. Mar-
shall's principles, said the Kentucky correspondent,
" must raise an alarm throughout our widely ex-
tended empire. . . The people must rouse from the
lap of Delilah and prepare to meet the Philistines. . .
No mind can compass the extent of the encroach-
ments upon State and individual rights which may
take place under the principles of this decision."³
Even Marshall, a political and judicial veteran in
his sixty-fifth year, was perturbed. "The opinionin the Bank case continues to be denounced by
the democracy in Virginia," he writes Story, after the
second of Roanes articles appeared. An effort is
certainly making to induce the legislature which
will meet in December to take up the subject & to
pass resolutions not very unlike those which were
called forth by the alien & sedition laws in 1799.
¹ Branch Hist. Papers, June, 1905, 51-63.
² Enquirer, April 2, 1819, as quoted in Branch Hist. Papers, June,
1905, 76. (Italics the authors.)
³ Enquirer, April 20, 1819, as quoted in ib. 76.
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SPENCER ROANE

VITALIZING THE CONSTITUTION 315

Whether the effort will be successful or not may
perhaps depend in some measure on the sentiments
of our sister states. To excite this ferment the
opinion has been grossly misrepresented; and where
its argument has been truly stated it has been met
by principles one would think too palpably absurd
for intelligent men.
"But," he gloomily continues, "prejudice will
swallow anything. If the principles which have been
advanced on this occasion were to prevail the con-
stitution would be converted into the old confed-
eration."¹
As yet Roane had struck but lightly. He now
renewed the Republican offensive with greater spirit.
During June, 1819, the Enquirer published four ar-
ticles signed Hampden, from Roane's pen. Ritchie
introduced the Hampden essays in an editorial in
which he urged the careful reading of the exposure
of the alarming errors of the Supreme Court. . .
Whenever State rights are threatened or invaded,
Virginia will not be the last to sound the tocsin²

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