[248] Bancroft to his wife, Jan. 23, 1832, Howe: Life and Letters of George Bancroft, i, 202.
[249] Even Jefferson, in his bitterest attacks, never intimated anything against Marshall's integrity; and Spencer Roane, when assailing with great violence the opinion of the Chief Justice in M'Culloch vs. Maryland (see infra, chap, vi), paid a high tribute to the purity of his personal character.
[250] Ticknor to his father, Feb. 1, 1815, Ticknor: Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor, i, 33.
[251] Description from personal observation, as quoted in Van Santvoord: Lives and Judicial Services of the Chief Justices, footnote to 363.
[252] Ticknor to his father, as cited in note 1, supra.
[253] Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Adams, ix, 243.
[254] Wirt to Carr, Dec. 30, 1827, Kennedy, 240. For Story's estimate of Marshall's personality see Dillon, iii, 363-66.
[255] "He was solicitous to hear arguments, and not to decide causes without hearing them. And no judge ever profited more by them. No matter whether the subject was new or old; familiar to his thoughts or remote from them; buried under a mass of obsolete learning, or developed for the first time yesterday—whatever was its nature, he courted argument, nay, he demanded it." (Story in Dillon, iii, 377; and see vol. ii, 177-80, of this work.)
[256] See Story's description of Harper, Duponceau, Rawle, Dallas, Ingersoll, Lee, and Martin (Story to Fay, Feb. 16, 1808, Story, i, 162-64); and of Pinkney (notes supra); also see Warren: History of the American Bar, 257-63. We must remember, too, that Webster, Hopkinson, Emmet, Wirt, Ogden, Clay, and others of equal ability and accomplishments, practiced before the Supreme Court when Marshall was Chief Justice.
[257] Story relates that a single case was argued for nine days. (Story to Fay, Feb. 16, 1808, Story, i, 162.)