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[562] Catterall, 33-37.

[563] _Ib._ 51-53; and see Niles, XV, 25.

[564] Catterall, 33.

[565] Monster, Hydra, Cerberus, Octopus, and names of similar import were popularly applied to the Bank of the United States. (See Crawford's speech, _supra_, 175.)

[566] Niles, XV, 5.

[567] Act of April 3, 1811, _Laws of New York_, 1811, 205-21.

[568] Niles, XVI, 257.

[569] _Ib._

[570] _Ib._ XVII, 147.

[571] ”I have known several to _calculate_ upon the 'relief' from them, just as they would do on an accommodation at bank, or on the payment of debts due to them! If we succeed in such and such a thing, say they--very well; if not, we can get the benefit of the insolvent laws.... Where one prudent and honest man applies for such benefit, one hundred rogues are facilitated in their depredations.” (Niles, XVII, 115.)

[572] _Ib._

[573] _Ib._ XV, 283.

[574] The bankruptcy law which Marshall had helped to draw when in Congress (see vol. II, 481-82, of this work) had been repealed in 1803.

(_Annals_, 8th Cong. 1st Sess. 215, 625, 631. For reasons for the repeal see _ib._ 616-22.)

[575] _Annals_, 16th Cong. 1st Sess. 505.

[576] _Ib._ 513.

[577] _Ib._ 517-18.

[578] Flint's Letters, _E.W.T._: Thwaites, IX, 225.

In reviewing _Sketches of America_ by Henry Bradshaw Fearon, an Englishman who traveled through the United States, the _Quarterly Review_ of London scathingly denounced the frauds perpetrated by means of insolvent laws. (_Quarterly Review_, XXI, 165.)

[579] None of these letters to Marshall have been preserved. Indeed, only a scant half-dozen of the original great number of letters written him even by prominent men during his long life are in existence. For those of men like Story and Pickering we are indebted to copies preserved in their papers.

Marshall, at best, was incredibly negligent of his correspondence as he was of all other ordinary details of life. Most other important men of the time kept copies of their letters; Marshall kept none; and if he preserved those written to him, nearly all of them have disappeared.

[580] Niles, XV, 385.

[581] _Ib._

[582] _Ib._ XVI, 261.

[583] _Ib._ XVII, 85.

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