[477] J. Q. Adams to his father, March 14, 1805, _Writings, J. Q. A._: Ford, III, 116.
[478] Dec. 20, 1804, _Memoirs, J. Q. A._: Adams, I, 321.
[479] Plumer to Cogswell, Jan. 4, 1805, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.; and see Plumer to Sheafe, Jan. 9, 1805, Plumer MSS. _loc. cit._
[480] Bayard to Harper, Jan. 30, 1804, _Bayard Papers_: Donnan, 160.
[481] Pickering to Lyman, March 14, 1804, Lodge: _Cabot_, 450; also _N.E. Federalism_: Adams, 359.
[482] Ames to Dwight, Jan. 20, 1805, Ames, I, 338.
[483] The Yazoo fraud. No other financial scandal in our history equaled this, if one considers the comparative wealth and population of the country at the times other various great frauds were perpetrated. For an account of it, see _infra_, chap. X.
[484] For Randolph's frantic speech on the Yazoo fraud and Marshall's opinion in Fletcher _vs_. Peck, see _infra_, chap. X.
[485] This form was adopted in the trial of Judge Pickering. See _Annals_, 8th Cong. 1st Sess. 319.
[488] Marshall to James M. Marshall, April 1, 1804, MS.
[489] William Marshall. See _infra_, 191-92.
[490] John Wickham, leader of the Richmond bar and one of Marshall's intimate friends.
[493] Marshall to Chase, Jan. 23, 1804, Etting MSS. Pa. Hist. Soc.
[496] "M^r Burr had the sole power of making the arrangements ... for the trial." (Plumer to Sheafe, Jan. 9, 1805, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.)
[497] _Annals_, 8th Cong. 2d Sess. 100; _Chase Trial_, 2-5.
[498] Plumer to Norris, Nov. 7, 1804, Plumer, 329.
[500] See J. Q. Adams to his father, Jan. 5, 1805, _Writings, J. Q. A._: Ford, III, 104.
[501] Plumer, 274. "John S. Sherburne, Jonathan Steele, Michael McCleary and Richard Cutts Shannon were the principal witnesses against Pickering. Sherburne was appointed Judge [in Pickering's place]; Steele, District Attorney; McCleary, Marshal; and Shannon, Clerk of the Court.... Steele, expecting to have been Judge refused to accept his appointment, assigning as the reason his agency in the removal of Pickering."
[502] Plumer, 329-30; and see Adams: _U.S._ II, 220.
[503] Nov. 26, 1804, _Memoirs, J. Q. A._: Adams, I, 317-18; and Adams, _U.S._ II, 220-22.
"Burr is flattered and feared by the administration." (Plumer to Thompson, Dec. 23, 1804, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong.; and Plumer to Wilson, Dec. 7, 1804, Plumer MSS. _loc. cit._)