[184] See Grigsby: Virginia Convention of 1788, ii, 260-262.
This was the same Senator who, in violation of the rules of the Senate, gave to the press a copy of the Jay Treaty which the Senate was then considering. The publication of the treaty raised a storm of public wrath against that compact. (See vol. ii, 115, of this work.) Senator Mason's action was the first occurrence in our history of a treaty thus divulged.
[185] Annals, 7th Cong. 1st Sess. 59.
[186] In that case Marshall had issued a rule to the Secretary of State to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not be issued by the court ordering him to deliver to Marbury and his associates commissions as justices of the peace, to which offices President Adams had appointed them. (See infra, chap. iii.)
[187] Annals, 7th Cong. 1st Sess. 61.
[188] Annals, 7th Cong. 1st Sess. 63.
[189] Annals, 7th Cong. 1st Sess. 66. The eloquence of the Virginia Senator elicited the admiration of even the rabidly Federalist Columbian Centinel of Boston. See issue of February 6, 1802.
[190] Ib. 77.
[191] Ib. 83.
[192] Annals, 7th Cong. 1st Sess. 89.