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solutions, 51; strong speech against Enlistment Bill, 52; speech on repeal of embargo, replies to Calhoun, 54; remarks on double duties, 55; character of these speeches, 56; superiority to other speakers in Congress, 57; views as to Hartford Convention, 58; votes against war taxes, 59; partisanship, calls on Mr. Madison, 60; conversational manner in debate, 61; takes a leading part in debate on establishment of bank, 1814-15, 62; power of his argument against irredeemable paper, 63; opinion of fourteenth Congress, 64; speech against Bank Bill in session of 1815-16, 66; votes against Bank Bill, introduces specie resolutions, carries them, 66; challenged by Randolph, 67; votes for internal improvements, retires from public life, 68; removal to Boston, success in Supreme Court of United States, 69; grief at the death of his daughter Grace, 70; position on leaving Congress, 71; reception in Boston, 72; importance of period upon which he then entered, 73; consulted by John Wheelock on troubles with trustees, 76; refuses to appear before legislative committee for Wheelock, and goes over to side of trustees, his excuse, 77; advises efforts to soothe Democrats and circulation of rumors of founding a new college, 78; joins Mason and Smith in re-argument at Exeter, 79; anger at Bartlett's attack, fine argument at Exeter, 80; relies for success on general principles, and has but little faith in doctrine of impairing obligation of contracts, 81, 82; gives but little space to this doctrine in his argument at Washington, 83; raises money in Boston to defray expenses of college case, 84; adds but little to argument of Mason and Smith, 85; "something left out" in report of his argument, 86; dexterous argument, appeal to political sympathies of Marshall, 87; depicts Democratic attack on the college, 88; description of concluding passage of his argument, 89-91; moves for judgment _nunc pro tunc_, 96; true character of success in this case, 97, 98; argument in Gibbons vs. Ogden, 99; in Ogden vs. Saunders and other cases, 100; in Girard will case, 101, 102; nature of his religious feeling, 103; argument in Rhode Island case, 104; attracts audiences even to legal arguments, anecdote of Mr. Bosworth, 105; skill in seizing vital points, 106; capacity for using others, early acknowledgment, later ingratitude, 107; refusal
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