[484] For Randolph's frantic speech on the Yazoo fraud and Marshall's opinion in Fletcher vs. Peck, see infra, chap. x.

[485] This form was adopted in the trial of Judge Pickering. See Annals, 8th Cong. 1st Sess. 319.

[486] See Plumer, 323.

[487] Channing: U.S. iv, 287.

[488] Marshall to James M. Marshall, April 1, 1804, MS.

[489] William Marshall. See infra, 191-92.

[490] John Wickham, leader of the Richmond bar and one of Marshall's intimate friends.

[491] See supra, chap. i; and infra.

[492] See 1 Kings, xii, 10.

[493] Marshall to Chase, Jan. 23, 1804, Etting MSS. Pa. Hist. Soc.