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[1446] Perez Morton and Gideon Granger. Morton, like Granger, was a Republican and a devoted Jeffersonian. He went annually to Was.h.i.+ngton to lobby for the Yazoo claimants and a.s.siduously courted the President. In Boston the Federalists said that his political activity was due to his personal interest in the Georgia lands. (See _Writings, J. Q. A._: Ford, III, 51-53.)

[1447] _Memorial of the Agents of the New England Mississippi Company to Congress, with a Vindication of their t.i.tle at Law annexed_.

[1448] This doc.u.ment, issued in pamphlet form in 1804, is highly important. There can be little doubt that Marshall read it attentively, since it proposed a submission of the acrimonious controversy to the Supreme Court.

[1449] The Postmaster-General was not made a member of the Cabinet until 1829.

[1450] See _supra_, chap. IV.

[1451] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 1023.

[1452] Cutler, II, 182.

[1453] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 1024. To such extravagance and inaccuracy does the frenzy of combat sometimes drive the most honest of men. When he made these a.s.sertions, John Randolph knew that scores of purchasers from the land companies had invested in absolute good faith and before Georgia had pa.s.sed the rescinding act. His tirade done, however, this inexplicable man spoke words of sound though misapplied statesmans.h.i.+p.

[1454] _Ib._ 1029-30.

[1455] Referring to Granger's speculations in the Western Reserve.

[1456] The Yazoo deal.

[1457] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 1031.

[1458] Findley was one of those who led the fight against the ratification of the Const.i.tution in the Pennsylvania Convention. (See vol. I, 327-38, of this work.)

[1459] James Wilson.

[1460] James Gunn.

[1461] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 1080-89.

[1462] Cutler, II, 182.

[1463] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 1100-08.

[1464] _Ib._ 1173.

[1465] See _supra_, chap. IV.

[1466] _Memoirs, J. Q. A._: Adams, I, 343.

[1467] See vol. I, 224-41, of this work.

[1468] _Ib._ 191, 196; and vol. II, 206.

[1469] Martin _vs._ Hunter's Lessees; see vol. IV, chap, III, of this work.

[1470] _Memoirs, J. Q. A._: Adams, I, 381; also see _ib._ 389, 392, 404-05, 408-09, 417-19.

[1471] Haskins, 38.