The Life of John Marshall Volume II Part 41

[763] Jefferson to Madison, April 6, 1798; _ib._, 403.

[764] _Ib._, April 12, 1798; _ib._, 404.

[765] Jefferson to Carr, April 12, 1798; _Works_: Ford, viii, 405-06.

[766] Madison to Jefferson, April 15, 1798; _Writings_: Hunt, vi, 315.

[767] Washington to Pickering, April 16, 1798; _Writings_: Ford, xiii, 495.

[768] Washington to Hamilton, May 27, 1798; _ib._, xiv, 6-7.

[769] Sedgwick to King, May 1, 1798; King, ii, 319.

[770] Ames to Gore, Dec. 18, 1798; _Works_: Ames, i, 245-46.

[771] Troup to King, June 3, 1798; King, ii, 329.

[772] Jefferson to Madison, May 3, 1797, _Works_: Ford, viii, 413.

[773] Jefferson to Monroe, March 7, 1801; _ib._, ix, 203.

[774] Higginson to Pickering, June 26, 1798; Pickering MSS., Ma.s.s. Hist.

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[775] Jonathan Mason to Otis, May 28, 1798; Morison, i, 95-96.

[776] Troup to King, June 3, 1798; King, ii, 329.

[777] _Ib._, 330; and see letters of Bingham, Lawrence, and Cabot to King, _ib._, 331-34. From the newspapers of the time, McMaster has drawn a brilliant picture of the thrilling and dramatic scenes which all over the United States marked the change in the temper of the people.

(McMaster, ii, 376 _et seq._)

[778] "Hail Columbia exacts not less reverence in America than the Ma.r.s.eillaise Hymn in France and Rule Britannia in England." (Davis, 128.)

[779] Norfolk (Va.) _Herald_, June 25, 1798.

[780] Troup to King, June 23, 1798; King, ii, 349.

[781] Even Franklin's welcome on his first return from diplomatic service in England did not equal the Marshall demonstration.

[782] A strenuously Republican environ of Philadelphia.

[783] _Gazette of the United States_, June 20, 1798; see also Claypoole's _American Daily Advertiser_, Wednesday, June 20, 1798.

[784] _Gazette of the United States_, June 21, 1798.

[785] _Aurora_, June 21, 1798; and see _ib._, June 20.

[786] Jefferson to Madison, June 21, 1798; _Works_: Ford, viii, 439-40.

[787] General Marshall at O'Eller's Hotel, June 23, 1798; Jefferson MSS., Lib. Cong.

[788] _Green Bag_, viii, 482-83.

[789] Marshall to Jefferson; Jefferson MSS., Lib. Cong.

[790] Pickering to Marshall, Sept. 20, 1798; Pickering MSS., Ma.s.s. Hist.

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[791] This sentiment has been ascribed to General C. C. Pinckney, Marshall's colleague on the X. Y. Z. mission. But it was first used at the Philadelphia banquet to Marshall. Pinckney's nearest approach to it was his loud, and wrathful, "No! not a sixpence!" when Hottenguer made one of his incessant demands for money. (See _supra_, 273.)

[792] Claypoole's _American Daily Advertiser_, Wednesday, June 20, 1798; Pa. Hist. Soc. The toasts drank at this dinner to Marshall ill.u.s.trate the popular spirit at that particular moment. They also furnish good examples of the vocabulary of Federalism at the period of its revival and only two years before its annihilation by Jefferson's new party:--

"1. The United States--'free, sovereign & independent.'

"2. The people and the Government--'one and indivisible.'

"3. The President--'some other hand must be found to sign the ignominious deed' that would surrender the sovereignty of his Country.

"4. General Washington--'His name a rampart & the Knowledge that he lives a bulwark against mean and secret enemies of his Country's Peace.'

"5. General Pinckney. ''Tis not in mortals to command success: He has done more--deserved it.'

"6. The Officers & Soldiers of the American Army. 'May glory be their Theme, Victory their Companion, & Grat.i.tude & Love their Rewards.'

"7. The Navy of the United States. 'May its infant efforts, like those of Hercules, be the Presage of its future Greatness.'

"8. The Militia. 'May they never cease to combine the Valor of the Soldier with the Virtues of the Citizen.'

"9. The Gallant Youth of America. 'May they disdain to hold as Tenants at Will, the Independence inherited from their ancestors.'

"10. The Heroes who fell in the Revolutionary War. 'May their memory never be dishonored by a surrender of the Freedom purchased with their Blood.'

"11. The American Eagle. 'May it regard with disdain the crowing of the Gallic c.o.c.k.'

"12. Union & Valour--infallible Antidotes against diplomatic skill.

"13. Millions for Defense but not a cent for Tribute.

"14. The first duties of a good citizen--Reverence for the Laws and Respect for the Magistracy.

"15. Agriculture & Commerce--A Dissolution of whose partnership will be the Bankruptcy of both.

"16. The Const.i.tution--'Esto Perpetua.'

"After General Marshall Retired:--

"General Marshall--The man whom his country delights to Honor."

(_Ib._, June 25, 1798.)