[1240] Grigsby, i, 176.
[1241] Marshall had provided for entertaining during the Convention. His Account Book shows the following entry on May 8, 1788: "Paid McDonald for wine 20" (pounds); and "bottles 9/" (shillings). This was the largest quantity of wine Marshall had purchased up to that time.
[1242] Marshall's reputation for "eloquence" grew, as we shall see, until his monumental work on the Supreme Bench overshadowed his fame as a public speaker.
[1243] Elliott, iii, 222.
[1244] Marshall's idea was that government should be honest and efficient; a government by the people, whether good or bad, as a method of popular self-development and progress did not appeal to him as much as excellence in government.
[1245] Marshall here referred to the case of Josiah Philips, and fell into the same error as had Randolph, Henry, and others. (See supra, 393, footnote 1.)
[1246] Humphrey Marshall, i, 254. Humphrey Marshall finally voted for the Constitution, against the wishes of his constituents. (Scott, 135-38.)
[1247] See vol. III of this work.
[1248] See entire speech in Elliott, iii, 223-36.
[1249] Some of the sentences used in this unprepared speech are similar to those found in the greatest of his opinions as Chief Justice. (See vol. III of this work.)