Albert Beveridge: “Can our Countrymen be caught by so flimsy a pretext?”

On this, the only vital and enduring question involved, Marshall's views were clear and unshakable.

He has raised the American people in their own esteem, and, if the influence of truth and justice, reason and argument is not lost in Europe, he has raised the consideration of the United States in that quarter of the world....

Marshall's strange power of personality which, in after years, was so determining an influence on the destiny of the country, together with the combined influence of his father and of the State Treasurer, Jacquelin Ambler, Marshall's…

The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.