. The life of John Marshall. ory may be considered one and thesame person. Where Marshall was leisurely, Story was the attainments of the Chief Justice were notprofuse, those of his young associate were detested the labor of investigating legalauthorities; Story delighted in it. The intellect of theolder man was more massive and sure; but that ofthe youthful Justice was not far inferior in strength,or much less clear and direct in its operation. Mar-shall steadied Story while Story enriched admired the other, and between them grew anaffection like that o
. The life of John Marshall. ory may be considered one and thesame person. Where Marshall was leisurely, Story was the attainments of the Chief Justice were notprofuse, those of his young associate were detested the labor of investigating legalauthorities; Story delighted in it. The intellect of theolder man was more massive and sure; but that ofthe youthful Justice was not far inferior in strength,or much less clear and direct in its operation. Mar-shall steadied Story while Story enriched admired the other, and between them grew anaffection like that of father and son. Storys father, Elisha Story, was a member of theRepublican Party, a rare person among wealthy andeducated men in Massachusetts at the time Jeffer-son founded that political organization. The sontells us that he naturally imbibed the same opin-ions, which were so reprobated that not more thanfour or five lawyers in the whole state . dared avowthemselves republicans. The very name was Story, i, MARSHALL AND STORY 97 Joseph Story was born in Marblehead, Massachu-setts, September 18,1779, one of a family of eighteenchildren, seven by a first wife and eleven by a was the eldest son of the second wife, who hadbeen a Miss Pedrick, the daughter of a rich mer-chant and No young member of the Massachusetts barequaled Joseph Story in intellectual gifts and ac-quirements. He was a graduate of Harvard, and fewmen anywhere had a broader or more accurate educa-tion. His personality was winning and full of , when he began practice at Salem, he was per-secuted with extreme .. virulence because of hispolitical He became so depressed by whathe calls the petty prejudices and sullen coolness ofNew England, . bigoted in opinion and satisfied informs, where Federalism had persecuted . [him]unrelentingly for . [his] political principles, thathe thought seriously of going to Baltimore to liveand practice his profession. He made h
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