[710] Marshall's Journal, Feb. 27, 61-67.
[711] Ib., Feb. 28, 67-68. See supra, 312.
[712] Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 186-87; Marshall's Journal, March 2, 68-72.
[713] Marshall's Journal, March 3, 74.
[714] Marshall's Journal, March 6, 79-81.
[715] Marshall's Journal, 82-88; Am. St. Prs., For. Rel., ii, 187-88.
[716] Marshall's Journal, March 13, 87-93.
[717] This would seem to indicate that Marshall knew that his famous dispatches were to be published.
[718] France was already making "actual war" upon America; the threat of formally declaring war, therefore, had no terror for Marshall.
[719] Here Marshall contradicts his own statement that the French Nation was tired of the war, groaning under taxation, and not "universally" satisfied with the Government.