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JOHN MARSHALL
From the Inman portrait

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Judge Marshall told his daughter, Mrs. Harvie, near the
end of his life that he had always believed in the Christian
revelation, but not in the divinity of Christ; but that he had
lately beocme "convinced of the supreme divinity of the Sa-
vious and had resolved to make a public confession of his
faith." "While waiting improved health to enable him to
go to church for that purose," said Mrs. Harive, "he grew
worse and died." In an eulogy of his wife, written Christman
day, 1832, one year after her death and four years before his
own, he says: "Hers was the religion taught by the Saviour
of men." He told Mrs. Harvie that he always concluded his
prayers on going to bed with those learned at his mother's
knee, the "Lord's Prayer" and "Now I lay me down to sleep."

John Marshall's greatness of heart and breadth of mind
are illustrated by his varied interests. He was president of
the first Virginia Agricultrual Society. He believed slavery
to be a great evil, and was president of the Virgina Coloniza-
tion Society, whose object was to send negroes to Africa. In
1793 he was made Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Vir-
ginia Masons, and in the 1831 was elected first president of the
Virginia Historical Society. If there had been an Association
for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities in his time, I
have not a doubt he would have been on its advisory board.

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the game, and each chose for partners. The match was played
with spirit. Judge Marshall's play is thus described:

"With his long arms hanging loosely by his side, a quoit in
each hand, leaning slightly to the right, he carried his right
hand and right foot to the rear; then, as he gave the quoit the
impetus of his ful strenght, brough his leg up, throwing the
force of his body upon it, struck the meg near the ground,
driving it in at the bottom, so as to incline its head forward,
his quoit being forced back two or three inches by the recoil.
Without changing his postion, he shifted the remaining quoit
to his right hand, and fixing the impression of the meg on th
optic nerve by his keen look, again threw striking his first
quoit and gliding his last directly over the head of the meg.
There arose a should of exulting merriment."

The first clear picture of John Marshall, as the nineteen-year-
old soldier, shows him playing this game. An entry in the
diary of Thomas Green shows him still playing it-aged
seventy-two: "July 28, 1827. Received a note from Mr.
stanard urging me to accept an invitation to the club. His gig
was sent down and I took John Scott with me. It was a most
agreeable party, but I was sorry to see the 'Old Chief' pitch so
feebly. He who two years ago was one of the best of the old
club with the quoit is now very ordinary owing to his increasing
feebleness."

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