distance of sixty feet frequently.  He arose early in the morning and went to market without a servant, and brought back his chickens in one hand and his market basket on the other arm.  He never took offense, and once when a dude stopped him on the street and asked him where there was a fellow to take home his marketing, Marshall inquired where he lived, and said, “I will take it for you.”  After he got home with the other man’s marketing, the dude was much distressed to find that Mr. Marshall had been his supposed servant.

INTELLECTUAL POWER.

Nevertheless, the intellectual existence of the man was decided.  From the beginning of his life he took the view that while Virginia was the State of his birth, his country was America; that all he and his neighbors could accomplish on this planet would be under the great government which comprehends all, and, true to this one idea, he never wavered in his life.  Mr. Jefferson, who was much his senior, he distrusted profoundly, regarding him as a man of cunning, lacking in large faith, and constitutionally biased in mind.  In the sketch Marshall made of General Washington, he said, and it is believed that he referred to Jefferson:  “He made no pretension to that vivacity which fascinates or to that wit which dazzles, and frequently imposes on the understanding.  More solid than brilliant; judgment, rather than genius, constituted the most prominent feature of his character.  No man has ever appeared upon the theater of public action whose integrity was more incorruptible, or whose principles were more perfectly free from the contamination of those selfish and unworthy passions which find their nourishment in the conflicts of party.  Having no views which required concealment, his real and avowed motives were the same, and his whole correspondence does not furnish a single case from which even an enemy would infer that he was capable, under any circumstances, of stooping to the employment of duplicity.  No truth can be uttered with more confidence than that his ends were always upright and his means always pure.  He exhibited the rare example of a politician to whom wiles were totally unknown, and whose professions to foreign governments, and to his own countrymen, were always sincere.  In him was fully exemplified the real distinction which found existence between wisdom and cunning, and the importance, as well as the truth of the maxim, that honesty is the best policy.”  It is to be noticed that Marshall’s “Life of Washington,” though written by the chief-justice of the United States, was not a success, and passed through only one edition.  It gave him more annoyance than any thing in his life.  He wrote it with labor and sincerity, but he was incapable of writing mere smart, vivacious things, and, in the attempt to give Washington his due proportions, he insensibly failed of making a popular book.

Jefferson, who had been urging Tobias Lear, Washington’s secretary, to get out of Washington’s papers remarks injurious to himself, was greatly exercised at the publication of Marshall’s book about as much as the better element dudes are at Blaine’s book.