ILLUSTRATIONS, VOL. III.-EXPLANATORY NOTES PORTRAIT OF MARSHALL Frontispiece The frontispiece of the present volume is engraved by Gutekunst of Philadelphia, from what is known as the Inman portrait. The correspondence which resulted in the production of this portrait is given in the proceedings of the Bar Association of Philadelphia in 1831, contained in the Appendix to the present volume. Referring to this portrait Professor Thayer says: "It was at this period, in 1831 and 1832, that Inman's fine portrait of him, now hanging in the rooms of the Law Association of Philadelphia, was taken for the Bar of that city. A replica is on the walls of the State Library in Richmond, which Marshall himself bought for his only daughter. The portrait is regarded as the best that was ever taken of him in his later life. Certainly it best answers the description of him by an English traveler, who saw him in the spring of 1835, and said that the venerable dignity of his appearance would not suffer in comparison with that of the most respected and distinguished-looking peer in the British House of Lords." Of this portrait Mr. Justice Mitchell of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania says: "There are many portraits of the Chief Justice, but most of them by inferior artists who failed wholly to catch or portray the spirit and character of the man. The standard and only satisfactory likeness is the one painted by Henry Inman for the Philadelphia Bar, which now hangs in the Library of the Law Association of this city. It gives us the mature man, with all the qualities that his contemporaries ascribe to him—the thin, rather small face, the broad brow with a mass of dark hair growing low down on it, the benignant half smile, and the keen but kindly black eyes that William Wirt said 'possess an irradiating spirit which proclaims the imperial powers of the mind within.'" STATUE OF CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL, WASH Page 327 INGTON This statue, which is in bronze, was unveiled in front of the Capitol, May 10, 1884. It is inscribed "John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, erected by the Bar and the Congress of the United States, A. D. MDCCCLXXXIV." Its history is set forth in the addresses of Chief Justice Waite and Mr. Rawle, which are given in the Appendix. A most interesting feature of the statue is that it was the work of the eminent sculptor, William W. Story, son of Mr. Justice Story, the devoted friend and associate of Marshall for a quarter of a century. JOHN MARSHALL MEMORIAL. STATE OF ARKANSAS. Pursuant to a resolution of the American Bar Association, which was concurred in by the Bar Association of Arkansas, a committee was appointed at a meeting of the Bar of Little Rock to make proper preparations for the observance of February 4, 1901, as "John Marshall Day." The committee selected the Federal court room at Little Rock as the place for such observance, and chose as the orators of the occasion Hon. John McClure, to speak upon the life of the distinguished jurist, and Hon. U. M. Rose to speak upon his services. Invitations were extended to the judges of the Supreme Court of the State, the Honorables Henry G. Bunn, Chief Justice, Burrill B. Battle, Simon P. Hughes, Carroll D. Wood, and James E. Riddick, Associate Justices, to preside in conjunction with the Honorable Jacob Trieber, United States District Judge; the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Henry G. Bunn, to be the active presiding officer. The attendance was very large. The Senate and House of Representatives at Little Rock, then in session, accepted the invitation of the committee and attended in a body. There was also present a large concourse of judges, lawyers and citizens, including many ladies. The presiding officer in opening the meeting said: VOL III-1 |