Note 1294 — Chapter IX
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Marshall to Gurley, Dec. 14, 1831, Fifteenth Annual Report, Proceedings, American Colonization Society, pp. vi-viii.
In a letter even less emotional than Marshall's, Madison favored the same plan. (Ib. pp. v, vi.) Lafayette, with his unfailing floridity, says that he is "proud ... of the honor of being one of the Vice Presidents of the Society," and that "the progressing state of our Liberia establishment is ... a source of enjoyment, and the most lively interest" to him. (Ib. p. v.)
At the time of his death, Marshall was President of the Virginia branch of the Society, and his ancient enemy, John Tyler, who succeeded him in that office, paid a remarkable tribute to the goodness and greatness of the man he had so long opposed. (Tyler: Tyler, i, 567-68.)