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Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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en, where questions have been raised asto the powers of Congress, the rights of states, and the privilegesof citizens. To declare the meaning and determine the scope of amend-ments that wrought a substantial change in our form of government,enlarging the central power and curtailing state sovereignty, has been thefunction of the Supreme Court under the chieftainship of Chief JusticeWaite ; and he met all these obligations, and bore his full share of theresponsibilities devolving on this most august of judicial tribunals. Oneof the associate justices recently said : His administrative ability wasremarkable. None of his predecessors more steadily or more wisely super-intended the court, or more carefully observed all that is necessary to itsworkings. He has written many of the most important opinions of thecourt—too many to be particularized. Another eminent jurist has said: He was always on the alert as to the due order and course of business in CHIEF JUSTICE MORRISON REMICK WAITE 15
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THE ONLY PROFILE PORTRAIT OF CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE. (From a photograph taken from life in the early part of March, 1888.) the court; he kept vigilant watch of the docket, acquainting himself inadvance with the character of the causes about to be reached, and rigidlyenforced the rules and precedents of the court in all matters of practice. l6 CHIEF JUSTICE MORRISON REMICK WAITE He presided with great dignity and with absolute fairness and courtesy,always ready to mitigate, never to aggravate, the harshness of the law,leaving nothing to be desired by his associates or by the Bar in his demeanorand bearing as the highest judicial officer in the land. Chief-JusticeWaite was able to keep pace with the growth in wisdom, and with thewondrous growth in other directions, of the country. While Taneyadvanced over Marshall and Story, whom all men admired as the giants oftheir time, Waite has advanced over and beyond them all. Few men in any great office in any country have commanded in souniversal

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