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[538] Niles, XIV, 193-96; also XV, 434.

[539] _Ib._ XVII, 164.

[540] _Ib._ XIV, 108.

[541] A wealthy Richmond merchant who had married a sister of Marshall's wife. (See vol. II, 172, of this work.)

[542] A writ directing the sheriff to seize the goods and chattels of a person to compel him to satisfy an obligation. Bouvier (Rawle's ed.) I, 590.

[543] Richmond _Enquirer_, Jan. 16, 1816.

What was the outcome of this incident does not appear. Professor Sumner says that the bank was closed for a few days, but soon opened and went on with its business. (Sumner: _Hist. Am. Currency_, 74-75.) Sumner fixes the date in 1817, two years after the event.

[544] Niles, XIV, 281.

[545] _Ib._ 314-15.

[546] _Ib._ 333; and for similar cases, see _ib._ 356, 396-97, 428-30.

All these accounts were taken from newspapers at the places where criminals were captured.

[547] Niles, XIV, 428.

[548] _Ib._ XVI, 147-48; also, _ib._ 360, 373, 390.

[549] _Ib._ 179.

[550] _Ib._ 210.

[551] _Ib._ 208.

[552] _Ib._ 210.

[553] See Catterall, 39-50.

[554] The frauds of the directors and officers of the Bank of the United States were used, however, as the pretext for an effort to repeal its charter. On Feb. 9, 1819, James Johnson of Virginia introduced a resolution for that purpose. (_Annals_, 15th Cong. 2d Sess. III, 1140-42.)

[555] See Catterall, 32.

[556] New Castle County.

[557] Niles, XV, 162.

[558] _Ib._ 59.

[559] _Ib._ 418.

[560] Flint's Letters, _E.W.T._: Thwaites, IX, 226.

[561] They, too, a.s.serted that inst.i.tution to be the author of their woes, (Niles, XVII, 2.)