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[924] Plumer, Jan. 30, 1807, ”Diary,” Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.

[925] J. Q. Adams to his father, Jan. 30, 1807, _Writings, J. Q. A._: Ford, III, 159.

[926] Feb. 28, 1801, _Journal Exec. Proc. Senate_, I, 387. Cranch was so excellent a judge that, Federalist though he was, Jefferson reappointed him February 21, 1806. (_Ib._ II, 21.)

[927] Jefferson appointed Nicholas Fitzhugh of Virginia, November 22, 1803 (_ib._ I, 458), and Allen Bowie Duckett of Maryland, February 28, 1806 (_ib._ II, 25).

[928] J. Q. Adams to his father, Jan. 27, 1807, _Writings, J. Q. A._: Ford, III, 158.

[929] _Annals_, 9th Cong. 2d Sess. 44.

[930] On Friday afternoon the House adjourned till Monday morning.

[931] _Annals_, 9th Cong. 2d Sess. 402.

[932] _Annals_, 9th Cong. 2d Sess. 404-05.

[933] _Ib._ 410. Eppes was Jefferson's son-in-law.

[934] _Ib._ 412.

[935] _Ib._ 414-15.

[936] 4 Cranch, 76.

[937] 4 Cranch, 107. Justice Chase, who was absent because of illness, concurred with Johnson. (Clay to Prentiss, Feb. 15, 1807, _Priv.

Corres._: Colton, 15; also _Works_: Colton, IV, 15.)

Caesar A. Rodney, Jefferson's Attorney-General, declined to argue the question of jurisdiction.

[938] 4 Cranch, 125-37.

[939] 4 Cranch, 125-26.

[940] 4 Cranch, 127.

[941] See _supra_, 303-05.

[942] 4 Cranch, 128-29.

[943] See Appendix D.

In his translation Wilkinson carefully omitted the first sentence of Burr's dispatch: ”Yours, post-marked 13th of May, is received.” (Parton: _Burr_, 427.) This was not disclosed until the fact was extorted from Wilkinson at the Burr trial. (See _infra_, chap. VIII.)

[944] 4 Cranch, 131-32.

[945] 4 Cranch, 132-33.

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