[773] Jefferson to Monroe, March 7, 1801; ib., ix, 203.
[774] Higginson to Pickering, June 26, 1798; Pickering MSS., Mass. Hist. Soc.
[775] Jonathan Mason to Otis, May 28, 1798; Morison, i, 95-96.
[776] Troup to King, June 3, 1798; King, ii, 329.
[777] Ib., 330; and see letters of Bingham, Lawrence, and Cabot to King, ib., 331-34. From the newspapers of the time, McMaster has drawn a brilliant picture of the thrilling and dramatic scenes which all over the United States marked the change in the temper of the people. (McMaster, ii, 376 et seq.)
[778] "Hail Columbia exacts not less reverence in America than the Marseillaise Hymn in France and Rule Britannia in England." (Davis, 128.)
[779] Norfolk (Va.) Herald, June 25, 1798.
[780] Troup to King, June 23, 1798; King, ii, 349.
[781] Even Franklin's welcome on his first return from diplomatic service in England did not equal the Marshall demonstration.
[782] A strenuously Republican environ of Philadelphia.