The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835

by Albert J. Beveridge

[667] The contract clause.

[668] Farrar, 216; 65 N.H. 631.

[669] Farrar, 228-29; 65 N.H. 639.

[670] Farrar, 231; 65 N.H. 641.

[671] Farrar, 232; 65 N.H. 642.

[672] Farrar, 235.

[673] Ib.

[674] Webster was then thirty-six years of age.

[675] Goodrich's statement in Brown: Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of his Life, i, 515.

[676] They were Rufus Greene Amory and George Black of Boston, David B. Ogden and "a Mr. Baldwin from New York," Thomas Sergeant and Charles J. Ingersoll of Philadelphia, John Wickham, Philip Norborne, Nicholas and Benjamin Watkins Leigh of Virginia, and John McPherson Berrien of Georgia. (Webster to Sullivan, Feb. 27, 1818, Priv. Corres.: Webster, i, 273.)