[312] Professor John Bassett Moore, in a letter to the author, says that he considers Marshall's opinion in this case his greatest in the realm of international law.

[313] Am. State Papers, For. Rel. iii, 384.

[314] 7 Cranch, 136.

[315] 7 Cranch, 137.

[316] Ib. 138-39.

[317] Ib. 141.

[318] 7 Cranch, 147.

[319] See John Bassett Moore in Dillon, i, 521-23.

[320] See supra, chap. i.

[321] 3 Wheaton, 610-44.