[537] Memoirs, J. Q. A.: Adams, i, 355-56.

[538] Plumer, Feb. 21, 1805, "Diary," Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.

[539] Adams: U.S. ii, 231. Even Randolph praised him. (Annals, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 640.)

[540] Annals, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 354-94; Chase Trial, 116-49.

[541] Feb. 21, 1805, Memoirs, J. Q. A.: Adams, i, 356.

"The effect on the auditory [was] prodigiously great." (Cutler, ii, 184.)

"His argument ... was one of the most able ... I ever heard." (Plumer, Feb. 21, 1805, "Diary," Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.)

[542] Feb. 22, 1805, Memoirs, J. Q. A.: Adams, i, 356.

[543] Annals, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 394-413; see also Chase Trial, 149-62; and Cutler, ii, 184.

[544] Annals, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 413-29; Chase Trial, 162-72.