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tinctured with intolerance. Tie proposed in the hit His appearance was so shabby on reaching there that struggle for supremacy seeks to cv York convention to exclude Roman Catholics no hotel surmount the world would admit him. Always temperate in his and say, like Lucifer, Place my throne by from the privileges of citizenship, but the proposition habits. Marshall, the throne however, was not known t decline of God.' Bttt to a great extent his elevation reinforced wgi defeated. a good bottle of Madeira on the the resignation of Jay in 1795, occasion of a fine his character. There is no man called suddenly into On Washington ap- dinner. public pointed John Rutledge, of South Carolina, to life who. in passing from his own ROttte to pre- suceeed Americans love the memory of Marshall he side in He held the office only six months, having because the Capitol of the nation over the most digni- him. been was the judge who held that an act of Congress. fied, rejected by the Senate on account of his bitter repUg if not the most powerful tribunal on earth, has oppo- nant to the Constitution was not law. not been changed sition to jay's treaty with Great Britain, and also, it transfigured. If he has not been, He married Miss Ambler, a Virginia belle, whom he it is evidence of such hopeless is believed, on account of mental infirmity, caused by mediocrity that even the courted during his soldier days. They lived a happy hand of God would hardlv be able to produce anything exposure in the swamps of South Carolina during the life for 40 years. Judge Story Revolutionary War. said, "She must have from it." been a very extraordinary woman, I he He was a very interesting and and think is remarkable man. His the most 1 Well-Traine- extraordinary man ever saw for the depth Fuller a d Lawyer father was an Irish physician who settled in Charles- and tenderness of his feelings." in 1734, and soon thereafter ton married a wealthy Marshall was the last man to be Chief who WESTON FULLER, the eighth Chief girl, was the eldest of seven futice MELVILLE John children. had fought in the Revolutionary appointed by President Cleve- When the news of the passage War. Grover of the Stamp Act land, in 1888, and served until July 4, 1910. Charleston he was by He was reached chosen, an assembly of born at Augusta, Maine, in 1.S33. the people, one of the delegates to the Taney Had an Iron Will First Congress Richard Olney. once Secretary of State, said Ful- held in New York. Afterward, in 1774, of he was sent, ler: "President Cleveland's choice of Fuller put at the with his brother Edward, B.TANEY; who succeeded Marshall, was to the Continental Congress. well-educate- ROGER head of the national judiciary a d by Jackson, 1X 1864. scholar At the meeting to appoint delegates, the question and served from to well-traine- arose and a d lawyer; a man who had won dis- a to the power which should be He was born in Maryland in 1777, and was as devout a conferred on them. tinction at the bar on his merits and by his own ef- Rutledge insisted on a free reign with power Roman Catholic as Marshall was an Episcopalian, lb-wa- to pledge forts; who was not the lawyer of but one client or in tin- people of South Carolina" of iron will, and cared nothing .for public opinion to abide by any action but one field, but was expert in all varieties of of the convention. Some one in when he believed himself to be in the right. At a work; the audience asked who, starting in the extreme northeastern of what was to be done in case meeting called by his friends to greet him after his corner the delegates made a the country where he indulged himself in such various had use of their power? nomination as Secretary of the Treasury had been re- His laconic answer was, activities a being president of the city council, city "Hang them." jected by the Senate, Taney Used plain language in re- solicitor, and newspaper editor, Gree- Rutledge ferring to Daniel Webster. Taney's rejection, by loon took Horace was absolutely fearless. He was the first the ley's advice to young and rnor of his state, way. was the first time in the history of the country men. three years after his and when the British fleet of admission to the bar established himself in Chicago; 40 vessels approached Charleston in 1776, that the Senate refused to confirm a Cabinet member. June, his who from the beginning and as long as- he quick action and genius Webster in a speech at a public dinner had alluded remained at won unanimous approbation. the bar took the good citizen's in Within a few days he to Taney as "the pliant instrument of the President, interest politics and organized an army of 6,000 for thus put himself in touch with the of popular the defense of Charleston. ready to do his bidding." It will be recalled that currents General Charles Lee, ap- thought and sentiment; and who from the pointed by Congress to command the Taney, as Secretary of the Treasury, had ordered the outset of Southern Depart- his career was in thorough sympathy with the demo- ment, advised Rutledge de- removal of the public deposits from' the United to abandon Fort Moultrie, States cratic principles which underlie our political claring it was a slaughter pen. Rutledge bank. In replying to Webster's charge. Taney said. institutions. wrote this to Once inducted into his great (.nice, he from the begin- the commandcrof the "General Lee "Neither my principles nor my habits lead me to bandy fort: wishes you ning acquitted himself so judiciously and ably and yet to evacuate the fort. You will do SO words of reproach with Mr. Webster or any one not without an ele. so modestly as both to increase the esteem of friends r from me. I would sooner cut off my right hand But it is well known that he has found the bank a and to forestall the cavils of the would-b- e critics." than write one." profitab'e client, and I submit to the public whether the facts I have He died in 1800, leaving six sons and two daugh- stated do not furnish ground for be- White ters. lieving that he has become its 'pliant instrument,' and Was a Confederate Soldier is prepared on all occasions to do its bidding whenever it selection of Edward Douglass White as Chief Ellsworth Stood for Equality and wherever may choose to require him. In the sit- THE by uation in which President Taft created quite aflutter over he has placed himself before the pub- the country, due ELLSWORTH was appointed Chief lic, it to the fact that Mr. White was a would far better become him to vindicate him- Southerner, a Democrat, OLIVER March 4. and he too, like Jay, a former Confederate soldier, 17, while self from imputations to which he stands justly liable, and a holding that office, was sent on a foreign member of the Roman Catholic church. Taft. mission. than to assail others." however, believed President Adams selected him as one the him to be the right man for the place of envoys to Taney had advised Jackson in 1832 to veto the bill and in France. sent his appointment despite all these objections. renewing the charter of the United States bank, and f single Id' made a as Not or a moment has he regretted his stand in reputation a lawyer early in lite. As he aided in preparing the veto message. In fact, he the a member of Congress, lie matter. was a live wire, and was was the only member of the Cabinet who favored the Chief of great assistance to Robert Morris in Justice White was born in the Parish La- the framing veto. The correspondence between Jackson and Taney fourche, Louisiana, in and passage of his financial schemes. 1845. He received his education in 1833 has convinced everyone that the removal of the at schools in Il was jealous of the Catholic Maryland, Washington, D. C, dominance of the larger public deposits was not the act of a pliant instrument and Xew Orleans. He states, and to his unyielding determination the country served as state senator and of the President, but of a cabinet minister in the exe- justice of the supreme of his In is indebted for the final compromise of the Consti- court native state. cution of a policy which he had urged on the President. 1891 he was elected to the tution, giving to each state equal representation in United States Senate. the He married a sister of Francis Scott Key the au- When quite a young man his Senate. He always Urged the necessity of preserving father died leaving a thor of "The Star Spangled Banner." She died of yel- mortgage of $40,000 on the home plantation. the existence and freedom of the government. There state low fever. Taney died in Washington poor and neg- was a flaw in the mortgage which would hajtfgnabled He argued that the only chance of maintaining a gen- lected. young White to avoid paying it. Instead, however, he eral government was in grafting it on those of the offered individual to turn the entire plantation over to the holders states.
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