[56] Morison: Otis, ii, 10. These resolutions denounced "'all those who shall assist in enforcing on others the arbitrary & unconstitutional provisions of this [Force Act]' ... as 'enemies to the Constitution of the United States and of this State, and hostile to the Liberties of the People.'" (Boston Town Records, 1796-1813, as quoted in ib.; and see McMaster: History of the People of the United States, iii, 328.)
[57] McMaster, iii, 329.
[58] McMaster, iii, 329-30; and see Morison: Otis, ii, 4.
The Federalist view was that the "Force Act" and other extreme portions of the Embargo laws were "so violently and palpably unconstitutional, as to render a reference to the judiciary absurd"; and that it was "the inherent right of the people to resist measures fundamentally inconsistent with the principles of just liberty and the Social compact." (Hare to Otis, Feb. 10, 1814, Morison: Otis, ii, 175.)
[59] McMaster, iii, 331-32.
[60] Morison: Otis, ii, 3, 8.
[61] Hanson to Pickering, Jan. 17, 1810, N.E. Federalism: Adams, 382.
[62] Humphrey Marshall to Pickering, March 17, 1809, Pickering MSS. Mass. Hist. Soc.
[63] See vol. iii, chap. x, of this work.
[64] 5 Cranch, 133.