Thus again stands out the alliance of the various forces of Localism--slavery, State banking, debtors' relief laws, opposition to protective tariffs--which confronted the Supreme Court with threats of physical resistance to its decrees and with the ability to carry out those threats.
Beveridge highlights the various localist forces that opposed the Supreme Court and their potential for resistance.
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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.
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…
There was about him so little of 'the insolence of office,' and so much of the benignity of the man, that his presence always produced ... the most delightful impressions.
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