As the tide of his resistless and solemn eloquence, mingled with his masterly argument, flowed on, we can imagine how the great Chief Justice roused like an old war-horse at the sound of the trumpet.

The words of the speaker carried him back to the early years of the century, when, in the full flush of manhood, at the head of his court, the last stronghold of Federalism, the last bulwark of sound government, he had faced the power of the triumphant Democrats.

Once more it was Marshall against Jefferson,--the judge against the President.

Then he had preserved the ark of the Constitution.

Then he had seen the angry waves of popular feeling breaking vainly at his feet.