[1351] Adams did not, of course, mention Marshall by name. His castigation of the Chief Justice, however, was the more severe because of the unmistakable designation of him. (See Writings, J. Q. A.: Ford, iii, 173-84; also Annals, 10th Cong. 1st Sess. 56-63.)
It must be remembered, too, that this attack upon Marshall comes from the son of the man who, on January 20, 1801, appointed Marshall Chief Justice. (See vol. ii, 552-53, of this work.) But John Quincy Adams soon came to be one of the stanchest supporters and most ardent admirers that Marshall ever had. It was peculiarly characteristic of Marshall that he did not resent the attack of Adams and, for the only time in his judicial career, actually interested himself in politics in behalf of Adams. (See vol. iv, chap. ix, of this work.)
[1352] Adams's colleague Senator Pickering was, of course, disgusted (see his letter to King, Jan. 2, 1808, King, v, 44), and in a pamphlet entitled "A Review of the Correspondence Between the Hon. John Adams and the late William Cunningham, Esq." which he published in 1824, Pickering wrote that the resolution "outraged ... every distinguished lawyer in America" (see p. 41 of pamphlet). King thought Adams "indiscreet" (see his letter to Pickering, Jan. 7, 1808, King, v, 50). Plumer declared that the report "had given mortal offence" in New Hampshire (see Mass. Historical Society Proceedings, xlv, 357). John Lowell asserted that "justice ... was to be dragged from her seat ... and the eager minister of presidential vengeance seemed to sigh after the mild mercies of the star chamber, and the rapid movements of the revolutionary tribunal" (see his "Remarks" as quoted in Writings, J. Q. A.: Ford, iii, footnote to 184).
[1353] Jan. 28, 1808, Memoirs, J. Q. A.: Adams, i, 508; see also Writings, J. Q. A.: Ford, iii, footnote to 184.
[1354] "He poured himself forth in his two speeches to-day.... It was all a phillipic upon me." (Jan. 7, 1808, Memoirs, J. Q. A.: Adams, i, 501.)
[1355] Ib.
[1356] Annals, 10th Cong. 1st Sess. 324.
[1357] "Mr. Giles, in one of the most animated and eloquent speeches I ever heard him make, declared himself ... against the resolution for expulsion. He argued the case of Mr. Smith with all his eloquence, and returned to the charge with increasing warmth until the last moment." (April 9, 1808, Memoirs, J. Q. A.: Adams, i, 528.)
[1358] Annals, 10th Cong. 1st Sess. 321-24.