Volume IV Part 29 (2/2)

[649] Act of June 27, _Laws of New Hamps.h.i.+re_, 1816, 48-51; and see Lord, 687-90.

The temper of the Republicans is ill.u.s.trated by a joint resolution adopted June 29, 1816, denouncing the increase of salaries of Senators and Representatives in Congress, which ”presents the most inviting inducements to avarice and ambition,” ”will introduce a monopolizing power,” and ”contaminate our elections.” (Act of June 27, _Laws of New Hamps.h.i.+re_, 1816, 65-66.)

[650] _Journal_, House of Representatives (N.H.), June 28, 1816, 238-41.

[651] Resolutions of the Trustees, Lord, 690-94.

[652] Lord, 96.

[653] ”It is an important question and merits your serious consideration whether a law pa.s.sed and approved by all the const.i.tuted authorities of the State shall be carried into effect, or whether _a few individuals_ not vested with _any judicial authority_ shall be permitted to declare your statutes _dangerous and arbitrary, unconst.i.tutional and void_: whether a _minority_ of the trustees of a literary inst.i.tution formed for the education of your children shall be encouraged to inculcate the doctrine of resistance to the law and their example tolerated in disseminating principles of insubordination and rebellion against government.” (Plumer's Message, Nov. 20, 1816, Lord, 103.)

[654] Acts of Dec. 18 and 26, 1816, (_Laws of New Hamps.h.i.+re, 1816_, 74-75; see also Lord, 104.)

[655] Lord, 111-12.

[656] _Ib._ 112-15.

[657] _Ib._ 115.

[658] Lord, 121. So few students went with the University that it dared not publish a catalogue. (_Ib._ 129.)

[659] _Ib._ 92.

[660] One of the many stories that sprang up in after years about Webster's management of the case is that, since the College was founded for the education of Indians and none of them had attended for a long time, Webster advised President Brown to procure two or three. Brown got a number from Canada and brought them to the river beyond which were the College buildings. While the party were rowing across, the young Indians, seeing the walls and fearing that they were to be put in prison, gave war whoops, sprang into the stream, swam to sh.o.r.e and fled.

So Webster had to go on without them. (Harvey: _Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster_, 111-12.) There is not the slightest evidence to support this absurd tale. (Letters to the author from Eugene F. Clark, Secretary of Dartmouth College, and from Professor John K.

Lord, author of _History of Dartmouth College_.)

[661] Lord, 99.

[662] Farrar, 1.

[663] These arguments are well worth perusal. (See Farrar, 28-206; also 65 N.H. Reports, 473-624.)

[664] For instance, Mason's argument, which is very compact, consists of forty-two pages of which only four are devoted to ”the contract clause”

of the National Const.i.tution and the violation of it by the New Hamps.h.i.+re College Act. (Farrar, 28-70; 65 N.H. 473-502.)

[665] Farrar, 212-13; 65 N.H. 628-29.

[666] Farrar, 214-15; 65 N.H. 630.

[667] The contract clause.

[668] Farrar, 216; 65 N.H. 631.

[669] Farrar, 228-29; 65 N.H. 639.

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