[117] Story to Williams, Oct. 8, 1812, Story, i, 243.
[118] Marshall to Monroe, June 25, 1812, Monroe MSS. Lib. Cong.
[119] Marshall, however, was a member of the "Vigilance Committee" of Richmond, and took an important part in its activities. (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vii, 230-31.)
[120] Report of the Commissioners appointed to view Certain Rivers within the Commonwealth of Virginia, 5.
[121] A practicable route for travel and transportation between Virginia and the regions across the mountains had been a favorite project of Washington. The Potomac and James River Company, of which Marshall when a young lawyer had become a stockholder (vol. i, 218, of this work), was organized partly in furtherance of this project. The idea had remained active in the minds of public men in Virginia and was, perhaps, the one subject upon which they substantially agreed.
[122] Much of the course selected by Marshall was adopted in the building of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. In 1869, Collis P. Huntington made a trip of investigation over part of Marshall's route. (Nelson: Address—The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, 15.)
[123] Report of the Commissioners appointed to view Certain Rivers within the Commonwealth of Virginia, 38-39.
[124] Niles: Weekly Register, ii, 418.
[125] Lowell: Mr. Madison's War: by "A New England Farmer."
A still better illustration of Federalist hostility to the war and the Government is found in a letter of Ezekiel Webster to his brother Daniel: "Let gamblers be made to contribute to the support of this war, which was declared by men of no better principles than themselves." (Ezekiel Webster to Daniel Webster, Oct. 29, 1814, Van Tyne, 53.) Webster here refers to a war tax on playing-cards.