[468] Writings of Washington, xi. 387-391.
[469] Garland, Life of John Randolph, 130.
[470] Fontaine, MS.
[471] The alien and sedition acts.
[472] Wirt, 393-395.
[473] Hist. Mag. for 1873, 353.
[474] Henry Adams, John Randolph, 29.
[475] J. W. Alexander, Life of A. Alexander, 188-189. About this whole scene have gathered many myths, of which several first appeared in a Life of Henry, in the New Edinb. Encycl. 1817; were thence copied into Howe, Hist. Coll. Va. 224-225; and have thence been engulfed in that rich mass of unwhipped hyperboles and of unexploded fables still patriotically swallowed by the American public as American history.
[476] Henry Adams.
[477] Fontaine, MS.