Volume IV Part 25 (1/2)

[584] Jefferson to Adams, Nov. 7, 1819, _Works_: Ford, XII, 145.

[585] Niles, XVII, 85.

[586] Niles, XVII, 185.

[587] _Memoirs, J. Q. A._: Adams, May 27, 1819, IV, 375.

[588] _Ib._ 391.

[589] Collins, 88.

[590] ”The disappointment is altogether ascribed to the Bank of the U.S.” (King to Mason, Feb. 7, 1819, King, VI, 205.) King's testimony is uncommonly trustworthy. His son was an officer of the branch of Chillicothe, Ohio.

[591] See Article X, Section 1, Const.i.tution of Indiana, as adopted June 29, 1816.

[592] See Catterall, 64-65, and sources there cited.

[593] Spelled _Sturgis_ on the ma.n.u.script records of the Supreme Court.

[594] 4 Wheaton, 192.

[595] 4 Wheaton, 192-93.

[596] 4 Wheaton, 194.

[597] _Ib._ 195.

[598] 4 Wheaton, 196.

[599] ”No State shall ... emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pa.s.s any ... ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts.”

[600] 4 Wheaton, 196-97.

[601] For the proceedings in the Const.i.tutional Convention on this clause, see vol. III, chap. X, of this work.

[602] 4 Wheaton, 197.

[603] _Ib._ 197-98.

[604] 4 Wheaton, 198.

[605] 4 Wheaton, 199.

[606] _Ib._ 200.

[607] 4 Wheaton, 200-01.

[608] 4 Wheaton, 202.