When, in his old age, he was stricken with paralysis, the Maryland Legislature placed a tax of five dollars annually on all lawyers for his support. After Martin's death the bench and bar of Baltimore passed a resolution that "we will wear mourning for the space of thirty days." (_American Law Review_, I, 279.)
No biography of Martin has ever been written; but there are two excellent sketches of his life, one by Ashley M. Gould in _Great American Lawyers_: Lewis, II, 3-46; and the other by Henry P. Goddard in the _Md. Hist. Soc. Fund. Pub. No. 24._
[514] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 160-61. The case to which Randolph refers was that of the United States _vs._ Thomas Logwood, indicted in April, 1801, for counterfeiting. Logwood was tried in the United States Circuit Court at Richmond during June, 1804. Marshall, sitting with District Judge Cyrus Griffin, presided. Notwithstanding Marshall's liberality, Logwood was convicted and Marshall sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment at hard labor. (Order Book No. 4, 464, Records, U.S. Circuit Court, Richmond.)
[515] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 163-65; _Chase Trial_, 18. Randolph disgusted the Federalists. "This speech is the most feeble--the most incorrect that I ever heard him make." (Plumer, Feb. 9, 1805, "Diary," Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.)
[516] Two witnesses to the Baltimore incident, George Reed and John Montgomery, committed their testimony to memory as much "as ever a Presbyterian clergyman did his sermon--or an Episcopalian his prayer." (Plumer, Feb. 14, 1805, "Diary," Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.)
[518] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 203-05; _Chase Trial_, 36-37.
[519] Plumer, Feb. 11, 1805, "Diary," Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.
[520] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 200; _Chase Trial_, 35.
[522] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 207. John Quincy Adams's description of all of the evidence is important and entertaining:
"Not only the casual expressions dropped in private conversations among friends and intimates, as well as strangers and adversaries, in the recess of a bed-chamber as well as at public taverns and in stage coaches, had been carefully and malignantly laid up and preserved for testimony on this prosecution; not only more witnesses examined to points of _opinion_, and called upon for discrimination to such a degree as to say whether the deportment of the Judge was _imperative_ or _imperious_, but hours of interrogation and answer were consumed in evidence to _looks_, to _bows_, to tones of voice and modes of speech--to prove the insufferable grievance that Mr. Chase had more than once raised a laugh at the expense of Callender's counsel, and to ascertain the tremendous fact that he had accosted the ATTORNEY GENERAL _of Virginia_ by the appellation of _Young Gentleman_!!
