[1123] Adams to Marshall, July 30, 1800; Works: Adams, ix, 66; also Marshall to Adams, Aug. 1, Aug. 2, and July 29, 1800; Adams MSS.
[1124] Marshall to Adams, July 29, 1800; Adams MSS. This cost Adams the support of young Chase's powerful father. (McHenry to John McHenry, Aug. 24, 1800; Gibbs, ii, 408.)
[1125] McMaster, ii, 448.
[1126] Adams to Marshall, Aug. 7, 1800; Works: Adams, ix, 72; and Marshall to Adams, Aug. 16, 1800; Adams MSS. Chief Justice Ellsworth presided at the trial of Williams, who was fairly convicted. (Wharton: State Trials, 652-58.) The Republicans, however, charged that it was another "political" conviction. It seems probable that Adams's habitual inclination to grant the request of any one who was his personal friend (Adams's closest friend, Governor Trumbull, had urged the pardon) caused the President to wish to extend clemency to Williams.
[1127] Marshall to Adams, June 24, 1800; Adams MSS.
[1128] Marshall to Adams, Aug. 2, 1800; ib.
[1129] Marshall to Adams, July 26, 1800; ib.
[1130] De Yrujo to Marshall, July 31, 1800; ib.
[1131] Marshall does not state what these measures were.
[1132] Marshall to Adams, Sept. 6, 1800; Adams MSS.