Volume III Part 27 (1/2)

”His argument ... was one of the most able ... I ever heard.” (Plumer, Feb. 21, 1805, ”Diary,” Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.)

[542] Feb. 22, 1805, _Memoirs, J. Q. A._: Adams, I, 356.

[543] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 394-413; see also _Chase Trial_, 149-62; and Cutler, II, 184.

[544] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 413-29; _Chase Trial_, 162-72.

[545] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 429-82; _Chase Trial_, 173 _et seq._

[546] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 483.

[547] _Ib._ 484-87.

[548] See resume of Franklin's indictment of the press in vol. I, 268-69, of this work.

[549] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 488; _Chase Trial_, *223.

[550] ”Mr. Martin really possesses much legal information & a great fund of good humour, keen satire & poignant wit ... he certainly has talents.” (Plumer, Feb. 23, 1805, ”Diary,” Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.)

[551] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 489; _Chase Trial_, *224.

[552] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 556; _Chase Trial_, *205-44.

[553] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 560-62; _Chase Trial_, 237 _et seq._

[554] See Jefferson to Hay, _infra_, chap. VIII.

[555] See _infra_, chap. X.

[556] _Memoirs, J. Q. A._: Adams, I, 358.

[557] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 582; _Chase Trial_, 237-43.

[558] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 583.

This was an under-statement of the facts; for the first time the celebration of Was.h.i.+ngton's birthday was abandoned in the National Capital. (Plumer, 326.) Plumer says that this was done because the celebration might hurt Chase, ”for there are senators who for the veriest trifles may be brought to vote against him.” (Feb. 22, 1805, ”Congress,” Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.)

[559] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 583-84; _Chase Trial_, 243-56.

[560] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 585-87.

[561] Rodney here refers to the Republican allegation that Chase tried to secure appointment as Chief Justice by flattering Adams through charges to juries, rulings in court, and speeches on the stump.

[562] John Jay to England and Oliver Ellsworth to France. (See vol. II, 113, 502, of this work.)

[563] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 587-89.

[564] _Memoirs, J. Q. A._: Adams, I, 359.

[565] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 583-641; _Chase Trial_, 243-56.

[566] Cutler announced it as ”an outrageous, infuriated declamation, which might have done honor to Marat, or Robespierre.” (Cutler, II, 184.)