[575] Annals, 16th Cong. 1st Sess. 505.
[576] Ib. 513.
[577] Ib. 517-18.
[578] Flint's Letters, E.W.T.: Thwaites, ix, 225.
In reviewing Sketches of America by Henry Bradshaw Fearon, an Englishman who traveled through the United States, the Quarterly Review of London scathingly denounced the frauds perpetrated by means of insolvent laws. (Quarterly Review, xxi, 165.)
[579] None of these letters to Marshall have been preserved. Indeed, only a scant half-dozen of the original great number of letters written him even by prominent men during his long life are in existence. For those of men like Story and Pickering we are indebted to copies preserved in their papers.
Marshall, at best, was incredibly negligent of his correspondence as he was of all other ordinary details of life. Most other important men of the time kept copies of their letters; Marshall kept none; and if he preserved those written to him, nearly all of them have disappeared.
[580] Niles, xv, 385.
[581] Ib.
[582] Ib. xvi, 261.