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[873] _Enquirer_, June 15, 1819, as quoted in _ib._ 85; also _Enquirer_, June 18, 1819, as quoted in _ib._ 95.

[874] _Enquirer_, June 15, 1819, as quoted in _ib._ 91.

[875] _Ib._ 87; also _Enquirer_, June 18, 1819, as quoted in _ib._ 96-97.

[876] _Ib._ 98.

[877] _Enquirer_, June 22, 1819, as quoted in _Branch Hist. Papers_, June, 1905, 116.

[878] _Ib._ 118.

[879] _Ib._ 121. Madison endorsed Roane's attacks on Marshall. (See Madison to Roane, Sept. 2, 1819, _Writings of James Madison_: Hunt, VIII, 447-53.)

[880] See Roane to his son, Jan. 4, 1819, _Branch Hist. Papers_, June, 1905, 134; and same to same, Feb. 4, 1819, _ib._ 135.

Eighteen days before Marshall delivered his opinion Roane again writes his son: ”I have to-day deposited in the vaults of the Virga. bank a certificate in your name for 50 shares U. S. bank stock, as per memo., by Mr. Dandridge Enclosed. The shares cost, as you will see, $98 each.”

(Roane to his son, Feb. 16, 1810, _ib._ 136.)

[881] Roane to his son, note 4, p. 317.

[882] The entire transaction is set out in letters of Benjamin Watkins Leigh to Nicholas Biddle, Aug. 21, Aug. 28, Sept. 4, and Sept. 13, 1837; and Biddle to Leigh, Aug. 24 and 25, Sept. 7 and Sept. 15, 1837. (Biddle MSS. in possession of Professor R. C. McGrane of the University of Ohio, to whose courtesy the author is indebted for the use of this material.

These letters appear in full in the _Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle_: McGrane, 283-89, 291-92, published in September, 1919, by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.)

[883] Marshall to Bushrod Was.h.i.+ngton, June 28, 1819. This letter is unsigned, but is in Marshall's unmistakable handwriting and is endorsed by Bushrod Was.h.i.+ngton, ”C. Just. Marshall.” (Marshall MSS. Lib. Cong.)

[884] UNION, April 24, 1819.

[885] _Union_, April 24, 1819.

[886] Marshall means that Jefferson inspired Roane's attacks.

[887] Marshall had written five essays, but the editor condensed them into two numbers.

[888] Marshall to Story, May 27, 1819, _Proceedings, Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc._ 2d Series, XIV, 325.

[889] Henry Wheaton, Reporter of the Supreme Court.

[890] Marshall to Story, July 13, 1819, _Proceedings, Ma.s.s. Hist. Soc._ 2d Series, XIV, 326.

[891] _Enquirer_, Jan. 30, 1821.

[892] _Ib._ Feb. 1, 1821.

[893] _Journal_, House of Delegates, Virginia, 1819-20, 56-59.

[894] _Ib._ 9.

[895] _Ib._ 57.