Excerpt from The Life of John Marshall, Vol. 4Great Britain is fighting our battles and the battles of mankind, and France is combating for the power to enslave and plunder us and all the world. (fisher Ames.) Though every one of these Bugbears is an empty Phantom, yet the People seem to believe every article of this bombastical Creed. Who shall touch these blind eyes. (john Adams.) The object of England, long obvious, is to claim the ocean as her domain. (jefferson) I am for resistance by the sword. (henry Clay.) into the life of John Marshall war was strangely woven. His birth, his young manhood, his public services before he became Chief Justice, were coin eident with, and affected by, war. It seemed to be the decree of Fate that his career should march side by side with armed con¿ict, and that the final phase of that career should open with a war a war, too, which brought forth a National consciousness among the people and demonstrated a National strength hitherto unsuspected in their fundamental law.Yet, while American Nationalism was Marshall's one and only great conception, and the fostering of it the purpose of his life, he was wholly out of sym pathy with the National movement that led to our second con¿ict with Great Britain, and against the continuance of it. He heartily shared the opinion of the Federalist leaders that the War of 1812 was unnecessary, unwise, and unrighteous.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.