This conflict between the Supreme Court of the United States and the Court of Appeals of Virginia opened another phase of that fundamental struggle which war was to decide--a fact without knowledge of which this phase of American Constitutional history is colorless.
Beveridge discusses the conflict between the Supreme Court and Virginia's Court of Appeals as a pivotal moment in American Constitutional history.
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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
Genius, and learning, and consummate skill, Moulding each thought, obedient to the will; Affections pure, as e'er warmed human breast, And love, in blessing others, doubly blest; Virtue unspotted, uncorrupted truth, Gentle in age, and…
To Marshall reared--the great, the good, the wise; Born for all ages, honored in all skies; His was the fame to mortals rarely given, Begun on earth, but fixed in aim on heaven.
These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
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