In the Charlestown Bridge case, argued in 1831, the opening counsel on each side occupied three days. (Story to Ashmun, March 10, 1831, ib. ii, 51.)
Four years later Story writes: "We have now a case ... which has been under argument eight days, and will probably occupy five more." (Story to Fay, March 2, 1835, ib. 193.)
In the lower courts the arguments were even longer. "This is the fourteenth day since this argument was opened. Pinkney ... promised to speak only two hours and a half. He has now spoken two days, and is, at this moment, at it again for the third day." (Wirt to his wife, April 7, 1821, Kennedy, ii, 119.)
[258] Story, i, 96.
[259] Story, i, 2. Elisha Story is said to have been one of the "Indians" who threw overboard the tea at Boston; and he fought at Lexington. When the Revolution got under way, he entered the American Army as a surgeon and served for about two years, when he resigned because of his disgust with the management of the medical department. (Ib.)
[260] Story to Duval, March 30, 1803, ib. 102.
[261] Story to Williams, June 6, 1805, ib. 105-06.
[262] Story, i, 128.
[263] At first, Story supported the Embargo.
[264] See vol. iii, chap, x, of this work.