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What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!”
Editor's note · Context
Beveridge expresses the profound sense of loss that would accompany the passing of Chief Justice Marshall.
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No man ever bore public honors with so meek a dignity ...
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.
That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
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