[ [81] H. Adams, vol. i., p. 200.
[ [82] H. Adams, vol. i., p. 203.
[ [83] A full account of this case, though well known and reported, is not to be found in the histories. The case was referred to as the Gideon Olmstead case in the debates in Congress at the time of South Carolina’s threatened nullification in 1833. The account of the trial of General Bright is taken from Carson’s History of the Supreme Court of the United States, p. 213 and seq.
[ [84] Webster’s Speeches, 8th ed., 1850, vol. i., pp. 427, 428. See part of report and resolutions of Virginia in Mr. Pinckney’s argument in Cohens vs. Virginia, 6 Wheaton, Rep., 264.
[ [85] 5 Elliot, 526.
[ [86] H. Adams’ History, vol. v., p. 326.
[ [87] See No. LXXX. of the Federalist for Hamilton’s clear and able statement of the powers of the judicial department. He says it is a political axiom, that the judicial power of a government should be co-extensive with its legislative, and that the government should and did have the power over States and their judiciary in all cases arising under the Constitution and United States laws.
[ [88] Lodge’s Life of George Cabot, p. 518.
[ [89] History of Hartford Convention, by Theo. Dwight.
[ [90] Madison’s letter, 4 Elliot’s Debates, 615.