[1008] Marshall appears to have been the first to use the expression "the American Nation."
[1009] The word "empire" as describing the United States was employed by all public men of the time. Washington and Jefferson frequently spoke of "our empire."
[1010] Annals, 6th Cong., 1st. Sess., 203-04.
[1011] Ib., 204.
[1012] Marshall to Charles W. Hannan, of Baltimore, Md., March 29, 1832; MS., N.Y. Pub. Lib.; also Marshall, ii, 441.
[1013] These were: On the bill to enable the President to borrow money for the public (Annals, 6th Cong., 1st Sess., 632); a bill for the relief of Rhode Island College (ib., 643); a salt duty bill (ib., 667); a motion to postpone the bill concerning the payment of admirals (ib., 678); a bill on the slave trade (ib., 699-700); a bill for the additional taxation of sugar (ib., 705).
[1014] Ib., 521-22.
[1015] Annals, 6th Cong., 1st Sess., House, 522-23, 527, 626; Senate, 151.
[1016] Ib., 633-34.
[1017] Ib., 662. See ib., Appendix ii, 495, 496. Thus Marshall was the author of the law under which the great "Western Reserve" was secured to the United States. The bill was strenuously resisted on the ground that Connecticut had no right or title to this extensive and valuable territory.