[720] Choate says that Webster called to his aid "the ripe and beautiful culture of Hopkinson." (Brown, i, 514.)
[721] The same was true of Hopkinson's argument for Chase. (See vol. iii, chap. iv, of this work.)
[722] Webster to Brown, March 11, 1818, Van Tyne, 75-76.
After Hopkinson's argument Webster wrote Brown: "Mr. Hopkinson understood every part of the cause, and in his argument did it great justice." (Webster to Brown, March 13, 1818, Priv. Corres.: Webster, I, 274; and see Webster to Mason, March 13, 1818, ib. 275-76.)
"Mr. Hopkinson closed the cause for the College with great ability, and in a manner which gave perfect satisfaction and delight to all who heard him." (Boston Daily Advertiser, March 23, 1818.)
It was expected that the combined fees of Webster and Hopkinson would be $1000, "not an unreasonable compensation." (Marsh to Brown, Nov. 22, 1817, Lord, 139.) Hopkinson was paid $500. (Brown to Hopkinson, May 4, 1819, Hopkinson MSS.)
At their first meeting after the decision, the Trustees, "feeling the inadequacy" of the fees of all the lawyers for the College, asked Mason, Smith, Webster, and Hopkinson to sit for their portraits by Gilbert Stuart, the artist to be paid by the Trustees. (Shattuck to Hopkinson, Jan. 4, 1835, enclosing resolution of the Trustees, April 4, 1819, attested by Miles Olcott, secretary, Hopkinson MSS.; also, Webster to Hopkinson, May 9, 1819, ib.)
[723] Webster to Smith, March 14, 1818, Priv. Corres.: Webster, i, 577.
[724] Many supposed that Story was undecided, perhaps opposed to the College. In fact, he was as decided as Marshall. (See infra, 257-58, 275 and footnote.)
[725] Webster to Smith, March 14, 1818, Priv. Corres.: Webster, i, 577.