The Life of John Marshall Volume III Part 33

[672] Marshall to Wayne, March 16, 1805, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._

[673] Same to same, June 29, 1805, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._

[674] Wayne to Was.h.i.+ngton, July 4, 1804, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._

[675] Marshall to Wayne, Oct. 5, 1805, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._

[676] Was.h.i.+ngton to Wayne, April 1, 1806, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._ It was in this year that the final payments for the Fairfax estate were made and the deed executed to John and James M. Marshall and their brother-in-law Rawleigh Colston. See vol. II, footnote to 211, and vol.

IV, chap. III, of this work.

[677] Same to same, July 14, 1806, Dreer MSS. _loc. cit._

[678] Weems's orders for books are trustworthy first-hand information concerning the literary tastes of the American people at that time, and the extent of education among the wealthy. Writing from Savannah, Georgia, August, 1806, he asks for "Rippons hymns, Watts D^{o.}, Newton's D^{o.}, Methodist D^{o.}, Davies Sermons, Ma.s.sillons D^{o.}, Villiage D^{o.}, Whitfields D^{o.}, Fuller [the eminent Baptist divine,]

Works, viz. His Gospel its own evidence, Gospel Worthy of all Acceptation, Pilgrim's progress, Baxter's S^{ts.} Rest, Call to the Unconverted, Alarm, by Allein, Hervey's Works, Rushe's Medical Works; All manner of School Books, Novels by the cart load, particularly Charlotte Temple ... 2 or 300 of Charlotte Temple ... Tom Paines Political Works, Johnson's Poets boun^d in green or in any handsome garb, particularly Miltons Paradise lost, Tompsons Seasons, Young's N.

Thoughts wou'd do well." (Weems to Wayne, Aug. 1806, Dreer MSS. _loc.

cit._)

Another order calls for all the above and also for "Websters Spell^g book, Universal D^{o.}, Fullers Backslider, Booths reign of Grace, Looking Gla.s.s for the mind, Blossoms of Morality, Columbian Orator, Enticks Dictionary, Murrays Grammar, Enfield's Speaker, Best Books on Surveying, D^{o.} on Navigation, Misses Magazine, Vicar of Wakefield, Robinson Crusoe, Divine Songs for Children, Pamela Small." In this letter forty-four different t.i.tles are called for.

[679] Weems to Wayne, Jan. 28, 1804, and Aug. 25, 1806, Dreer MSS. _loc.

cit._

[680] Same to same, Sept. 20, 1806, Wayne MSS. _loc. cit._ This letter is written from Augusta, Georgia. Among other books ordered in it, Weems names twelve copies each of "Sall.u.s.t, Corderius, Eutropius, Nepos, Caesar's Commentaries, Virgil Delph., Horace Delphini, Cicero D^{o.}, Ovid D^{o.}"; and nine copies each of "Greek Grammar, D^{o.} Testament, Lucian, Xenophon."

[681] Marshall, III, 28-42.

[682] See vol. I, 93-98, 102, of this work.

[683] Marshall, III, chaps. III and IV.

[684] See vol. I, 98-101, of this work.

[685] Marshall, III, 43-48, 52.

[686] _Ib._ 319, 330, 341-50; and see vol. I, 110-32, of this work.

[687] Marshall, III, 345, 347-49.

[688] _Ib._ 50-53, 62.

[689] Marshall, III, 59. "No species of licentiousness was unpracticed.

The plunder and destruction of property was among the least offensive of the injuries sustained." The result "could not fail to equal the most sanguine hopes of the friends of the revolution. A sense of personal wrongs produced a temper, which national considerations had been found too weak to excite.... The great body of the people flew to arms."

[690] _Ib._ 20, 22, 24, 27, 386. See also vol. I, 115-16, of this work, and authorities there cited.

[691] Marshall, III, 246-47.

[692] _Ib._ Notes, 4-6.

[693] _Ib._ chap. 8; and see vol. I, 134-38, of this work.

[694] Marshall, III, 366-85.

[695] _Ib._ 486-96.

[696] See vol. II, 405, of this work.

[697] Marshall, IV, 114-15.

[698] _Ib._ 188.

[699] _Ib._ 247-65; see vol. I, 143-44, of this work.

[700] Marshall, IV, 284-88.

[701] Marshall, IV, 530-31.

[702] See Jefferson's letter to Barlow, _supra_.

[703] See _supra_, chap. III, and _infra_, chap. VI; and see especially vol. IV, chap. I, of this work.

[704] Adams to Marshall, July 17, 1806, MS.

This letter is most important. Adams pictures his situation when President: "A first Magistrate of a great Republick with a General officer under him, a Commander in Chief of the Army, who had ten thousand times as much Influence Popularity and Power as himself, and that Commander in Chief so much under the influence of his Second in command [Hamilton], ... the most treacherous, malicious, insolent and revengeful enemy of the first Magistrate is a Picture which may be very delicate and dangerous to draw. But it must be drawn....

"There is one fact ... which it will be difficult for posterity to believe, and that is that the measures taken by Senators, Members of the House, some of the heads of departments, and some officers of the Army to force me to appoint General Was.h.i.+ngton ... proceeded not from any regard to him ... but merely from an intention to employ him as an engine to elevate Hamilton to the head of affairs civil as well as military."

[705] He was "accustomed to contemplate America as his country, and to consider ... the interests of the whole." (Marshall, V, 10.)

[706] _Ib._ 24-30.

[707] _Ib._ 31-32.

[708] _Ib._ 33-34.

[709] _Ib._ 45-47.

[710] Marshall, V, 65.

[711] _Ib._ 85-86.

[712] Marshall, V, 85-87.

[713] _Ib._ 88-89.

[714] Marshall, V, 105. Marshall's account of the causes and objects of Shays's Rebellion is given wholly from the ultra-conservative view of that important event. (_Ib._ 123.)

[715] _Ib._ 128-29.