The Life of John Marshall (Volume 2 of 4). Beveridge Albert Jeremiah
to Washington, Nov. 20, 1795; MS., Lib. Cong.
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Randolph to Jefferson, Nov. 22, 1795;
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Randolph to Jefferson, Nov. 22, 1795;
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Marshall to Hamilton, April 25, 1796;
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Randolph to Jefferson, Nov. 22, 1795;
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Journal, H.D. (Nov. 20, 1795), 27-28.
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Journal, H.D. (Nov. 20, 1795), 28.
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Carrington to Washington, Nov. 20, 1795; MS., Lib. Cong.
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The italics are mine. "The word 'wisdom' in expressing the confidence of the House in the P.[resident] was so artfully introduced that if the fraudulent design had not been detected in time the vote of the House, as to its effect upon the P. would have been entirely done away… A resolution so worded as to acquit the P. of all evil intention, but at the same time silently censuring his error, was passed by a majority of 33." (Letter of Jefferson's son-in-law, enclosed by Jefferson to Madison;
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Journal, H.D. (Nov. 21, 1795), 29.
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Journal, H.D. (Nov. 21, 1795), 29.
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Jefferson to Madison, Nov. 26, 1795;
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Randall, ii, 36.
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Journal, H.D. (1795), 72.
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Journal, H.D. (1795), 50.
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Carrington to Washington, Dec. 6, 1795; MS., Lib. Cong.
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Journal, H.D. (Dec. 12, 1795), 91-92.
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Carrington to Washington, Feb. 24, 1796; MS., Lib. Cong.
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Dodd, 39.
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Lee to Washington, July 7, 1796;
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Washington to Marshall, July 8, 1796; Washington MSS., Lib. Cong.
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Marshall to Washington, July 11, 1796;
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Washington to Marshall, July 15, 1796; Washington's Private Letter Book; MS., Lib. Cong.
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Washington to Marshall, Oct. 10, 1796;
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Marshall to Washington, Oct. 12, 1796; Washington MSS., Lib. Cong.
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Genêt's successor as French Minister to the United States.
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For able defense of Randolph see Conway, chap. xxiii; but
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Patterson of New Jersey, Johnson of Maryland, C. C. Pinckney of South Carolina, Patrick Henry of Virginia, and Rufus King of New York. (Washington to Hamilton, Oct. 29, 1795;
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Washington to Hamilton, Oct. 29, 1795;
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For debate see
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Carrington to Washington, May 9, 1796; MS., Lib. Cong.
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Oliver Wolcott to his father, Feb. 12, 1791; Gibbs, i, 62.
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Hamilton to King, June 20, 1795;
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Washington to Knox, Sept. 20, 1795;
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Carrington to the President, April 22, 1796;
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Washington to Carrington, May 1, 1796;
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Story, in Dillon, iii, 352.
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Senator Stephen Thompson Mason wrote privately to Tazewell that the Fairfax purchasers and British merchants were the only friends of the treaty in Virginia. (Anderson, 42.)
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Alexander Campbell. (See
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Randolph to Madison, Richmond, April 25, 1796; Conway, 362. Only freeholders could vote.
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Marshall to Hamilton, April 25, 1796;
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Author unknown.
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Carrington to the President, April 27, 1796; MS., Lib. Cong.
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Marshall to King, April 25, 1796; King, ii, 45-46.
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Washington to Thomas Pinckney, May 22, 1796;
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Robert Morris to James M. Marshall, May 1, 1796; Morris's Private Letter Book; MS., Lib. Cong.
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Story, in Dillon, iii, 350.
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Marshall to King, April 19, 1796; Hamilton MSS., Lib. Cong. Hamilton, it seems, had also asked Marshall to make overtures to Patrick Henry for the Presidency. (King, ii, footnote to 46.) But no correspondence between Hamilton and Marshall upon this subject has been discovered. Marshall's correspondence about Henry was with King.
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Marshall to King, May 24, 1796; King, ii, 48.
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For an accurate description of the unparalleled abuse of Washington, see McMaster, ii, 249-50, 289-91, 302-06.
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Marshall, ii, 391-92. Also see Washington to Pickering, March 3, 1797;
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Journal, H.D. (1796), 46-47; MS. Archives, Va. St. Lib.
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Journal, H.D. (1796), 153; MS. Archives, Va. St. Lib.
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