Albert Beveridge: “The principal American demand was compensation for the immense spoliation of American commerce by the French.”

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

My God! what a situation has our country reached.

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....

The dreams he had dreamed, the visions he had seen back in his Virginia mountains were clad in glories as enchanting as the splendors of their tree-clad summits at break of day--dreams and visions for which strong men should be glad of the…