RESIGNATION, OR DAYS OF MY YOUTH. I. Days of my youth, Ye have glided away; Hairs of my youth, Ye are frosted and gray: Eyes of my youth, Your keen sight is no more; Cheeks of my youth Ye are furrowed all o'er, All your vigor is gone; 11, Days of my youth, I wish not your recall; Hairs of my youth, I'm content ye should fall; Eyes of my youth, You much evil have seen; Cheeks of my youth, Bathed in tears have you been; Thoughts of my youth, You have led me astray; Strength of my youth, Why lament your decay ? III. Days of my age, Ye will shortly be past; Pains of my age, Yet a while ye can last; Joys of my age, In true wisdom delight; Be religion your light; Thoughts of my age, Dread ye not the cold sod; Be ye fixed on your God. JOHN MARSHALL. OHN MARSHALLL, third Chief Justice of the United tes, was born in Fauquier County, Virginia. He served a soldier in the Revolution and then practised law Ricnmond. With Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and ridge Gerry, he was sent to Paris in 1797 to treat of ■lic affairs; and it was on this occasion that Pinckney le the famous reply to the propositions of Talleyrand, Tillions for defence, not a cent for tribute." He was chief-justice of the United States for thirty-five rs, being appointed in 1800 and holding the position unhis death. One of the most celebrated cases over which presided was the trial of Aaron Burr, 1807, in which Iliam Wirt led the prosecution, and Luther Martin and r himself, the defence. His services on the Supreme ach were not only judicial but patriotic also, as his deons on points of constitutional law, being broad, clear, ng, and statesman like, have done much to settle the ndations of our government. He died in Philadelphia whither he had gone for medical tment. A handsome statue of him by Story adorns the t grounds of the Capitol at Washington, and his is one the six colossal bronze figures around the Washington nument in Richmond. See Life, by Story, and by Ma der. gton. Decisions. Writings on Federal Constitution, [selec tions by Justice Story]. s supremely fitted for high judicial station-a ment, great reasoning powers, acute and pened; attentive, patient, grave on the bench, social in the intercourse of e in his tastes, and inexorably just."-Thomas on, in "Thirty Years' View." THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Cohen vs. State of Virginia, given in Magruder's Life of Marshall.*) orized to decide all cases of every description Ler the Constitution or laws of the United States. general grant of jurisdiction no exception is made ses in which a State may be a party. When we ne situation of the government of the Union and in relation to each other, the nature of our Conthe subordination of the State governments to itution, the great purpose for which jurisdicall cases arising under the Constitution and United States is confided to the judicial departve at liberty to insert in this general grant an of those cases in which a State may be a party? pirit of the Constitution justify this attempt to words? We think it will not. We think a case ler the Constitution or laws of the United States le in the courts of the Union, whoever may be to that case. The laws must be executed by inacting within the several States. If these indiy be exposed to penalties, and if the courts of the not correct the judgments by which these penalber will possess a veto on the will of the whole. nat the United States form, for many and most imporpurposes, a single nation has not yet been denied. e States are constituent parts of the United States. are members of one great empire, for some purposes reign, for some purposes subordinate. In a government onstituted is it unreasonable that the judicial power ld be competent to give efficacy to the constitutional of the legislature? That department can decide on the lity of the Constitution or law of a State, if it be renant to the Constitution or to a law of the United es. Is it unreasonable that it should also be empowered ecide on the judgment of a State tribunal enforcing such nstitutional law? Is it so very unreasonable as to ish a justification for controlling the words of the Contion? We think not. 1 of Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, of Boston, as also the following. THE DUTIES OF A JUDGE. dvert, sir, to the duties of a judge. He has to pass veen the government and the man whom that governt is prosecuting; between the most powerful individual e community and the poorest and most unpopular. It the last importance that, in the exercise of these duties hould observe the utmost fairness. Need I press the ssity of this? Does not every man feel that his own onal security and the security of his property depends nat fairness? The judicial department comes home, in fects, to every man's fireside; it passes on his property, reputation, his life, his all. Is it not to the last degree ortant that he should be rendered perfectly and comely independent, with nothing to influence or control |