The Life of John Marshall, Volume 3: Conflict and construction, 1800-1815

by Albert J. Beveridge

[202] Ib. 180.

[203] It was five o'clock (ib. 178) when Senator Breckenridge began to speak; it must have been well after six when Senator Morris rose to answer him.

[204] Ib. 180.

[205] Ib. 180.

[206] Annals, 7th Cong. 1st Sess. 181.

[207] Troup to King, April 9, 1802, King, iv, 103.

[208] Bayard to Bassett, Jan. 25, 1802, Papers of James A. Bayard: Donnan, 146-47.

[209] Except Colhoun of South Carolina, converted by Tracy. See supra, 62.

[210] Annals, 7th Cong. 1st Sess. 183.

[211] Ib. 510. A correspondent of the Columbian Centinel, reporting the event, declared that "the stand which the Federal Senators have made to preserve the Constitution, has been manly and glorious. They have immortalized their names, while those of their opposers will be execrated as the assassins of the Constitution." (Columbian Centinel, Feb. 17, 1802.)