[151] Ames to King, Dec. 20, 1801, King, iv, 40.
Like most eminent Federalists, except Marshall, Hamilton, and Cabot, Fisher Ames was soon to abandon his Nationalism and become one of the leaders of the secession movement in New England. (See vol. iv, chap. i, of this work.)
[152] See vol. ii, 531, 547-48, 550-52, of this work.
[153] Journal of Samuel Maclay: Meginness, 90.
[154] Annals, 1st Cong. 1st Sess. 862.
[155] Ib. 852.
[156] Ib. 833-34.
[157] Ib. 864-65.
[158] Maclay's Journal, 98.
[159] Grayson to Henry, Sept. 29, 1789, Tyler, i, 170-71.