[936] 4 Cranch, 76.
[937] 4 Cranch, 107. Justice Chase, who was absent because of illness, concurred with Johnson. (Clay to Prentiss, Feb. 15, 1807, Priv. Corres.: Colton, 15; also Works: Colton, iv, 15.)
Cæsar A. Rodney, Jefferson's Attorney-General, declined to argue the question of jurisdiction.
[938] 4 Cranch, 125-37.
[939] 4 Cranch, 125-26.
[940] 4 Cranch, 127.
[941] See supra, 303-05.
[942] 4 Cranch, 128-29.
[943] See Appendix D.
In his translation Wilkinson carefully omitted the first sentence of Burr's dispatch: "Yours, post-marked 13th of May, is received." (Parton: Burr, 427.) This was not disclosed until the fact was extorted from Wilkinson at the Burr trial. (See infra, chap. viii.)