[275] Annals, 10th Cong. 2d Sess. 702.
[276] Annals, 11th Cong. 1st and 2d Sess. 323, 327-49, 418-19, 1373, 1617-18, 1694-1702.
[277] See supra, 25, 35-41.
[278] Tyler to Jefferson, May 12, 1810, Tyler: Tyler, i, 246-47.
[279] Cyrus Griffin was educated in England; was a member of the first Legislature of Virginia after the Declaration of Independence; was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1778-81, and again in 1787-88, and was President of that body during the last year of his service. He was made President of the Supreme Court of Admiralty, and held that office until the court was abolished. When the Constitution was adopted, and Washington elected President, one of his first acts, after the passage of the Ellsworth Judiciary Law, was to appoint Judge Griffin to the newly created office of Judge of the United States Court for the District of Virginia. It is thus evident that Jefferson's statement was not accurate.
[280] Jefferson to Madison, May 25, 1810, Works: Ford, xi, 139-41.
[281] Jefferson to Tyler, May 26, 1810, Tyler: Tyler, i, 247-48; also Works: Ford, xi, footnote to 141-43.
[282] Jefferson to Gallatin, Sept. 27, 1810, Works: Ford, xi, footnote to 152-54.
[283] Gideon Granger, as Jefferson's Postmaster-General, had lobbied on the floor of the House for the Yazoo Bill, offering government contracts for votes. He was denounced by Randolph in one of the most scathing arraignments ever heard in Congress. (See vol. iii, 578-79, of this work.)
[284] Jefferson to Madison, Oct. 15, 1810, Works: Ford, xi, 150-52. Granger was an eager candidate for the place, and had asked Jefferson's support. In assuring him that it was given, Jefferson tells Granger of his "esteem & approbation," and adds that the appointment of "a firm unequivocating republican" is vital. (Jefferson to Granger, Oct. 22, 1810, ib. footnote to 155.)