Volume III Part 25 (1/2)

[476] See _supra_, chap. I. For the articles of impeachment see _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 85-88; _Chase Trial_, 10-11.

The Republicans, for a time, contemplated the impeachment of Richard Peters, Judge of the United States Court for the District of Pennsylvania, who sat with Chase during the trial of Fries. (_Annals_, 8th Cong. 1st Sess. 823-24, 850, 873-74.) But his name was dropped because he had not ”so acted in his judiciary capacity as to require the interposition of the Const.i.tutional powers of this House.” (_Ib._ 1171.)

Peters was terrified and turned upon his fellow judge. He showered Pickering and other friends with letters, complaining of the conduct of his judicial a.s.sociate. ”If I am to be immolated let it be with some other Victim--or for my own Sins.” (Peters to Pickering, Jan. 26, 1804, Pickering MSS. Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc.)

[477] J. Q. Adams to his father, March 14, 1805, _Writings, J. Q. A._: Ford, III, 116.

[478] Dec. 20, 1804, _Memoirs, J. Q. A._: Adams, I, 321.

[479] Plumer to Cogswell, Jan. 4, 1805, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.; and see Plumer to Sheafe, Jan. 9, 1805, Plumer MSS. _loc. cit._

[480] Bayard to Harper, Jan. 30, 1804, _Bayard Papers_: Donnan, 160.

[481] Pickering to Lyman, March 14, 1804, Lodge: _Cabot_, 450; also _N.E. Federalism_: Adams, 359.

[482] Ames to Dwight, Jan. 20, 1805, Ames, I, 338.

[483] The Yazoo fraud. No other financial scandal in our history equaled this, if one considers the comparative wealth and population of the country at the times other various great frauds were perpetrated. For an account of it, see _infra_, chap. X.

[484] For Randolph's frantic speech on the Yazoo fraud and Marshall's opinion in Fletcher _vs_. Peck, see _infra_, chap. X.

[485] This form was adopted in the trial of Judge Pickering. See _Annals_, 8th Cong. 1st Sess. 319.

[486] See Plumer, 323.

[487] Channing: _U.S._ IV, 287.

[488] Marshall to James M. Marshall, April 1, 1804, MS.

[489] William Marshall. See _infra_, 191-92.

[490] John Wickham, leader of the Richmond bar and one of Marshall's intimate friends.

[491] See _supra_, chap. I; and _infra_.

[492] See 1 Kings, XII, 10.

[493] Marshall to Chase, Jan. 23, 1804, Etting MSS. Pa. Hist. Soc.

[494] See _infra_, 192-96.

[495] See _supra_, chap. III, 113.

[496] ”M^r Burr had the sole power of making the arrangements ... for the trial.” (Plumer to Sheafe, Jan. 9, 1805, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.)

[497] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 100; _Chase Trial_, 2-5.

[498] Plumer to Norris, Nov. 7, 1804, Plumer, 329.

[499] See _infra_, chap. VI.