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anger over Marshall's part in the Burr trial lasted for many months and was voiced not only in the newspapers but in the formal toasts, which were the usual accompaniment of all celebrations in those days and. of which the following are illustrative. "The Judiciary when they Marshall themselves on the side of treason, in opposition to law, justice and hu- manity, may they hear Hhe small still voice' of the Nation ordering them from their unhallowed seats into eternal political oblivion," was a toast of the Washington Fusileers. "Choice Spirits — Pickering, Marshall and Burr. K raised above the * dull pursuits of civil life ' may it be done by impartially administer- ing to them the justice due from their country," was given at a Republican meeting in Connecticut, of which a Federalist paper said with indignation: "The Chief Justice of the United States and a member of the Senate of the United States are associated with a murderer and a traitor, a wretch abandoned of his country and his God, and crucified with him in an- ticipation on the same tree. Look at the bloody annals of the French Revolution and you will find the diabol- ical spirit which dictated this toast — a spirit which seems indeed to have made an alarming progress in this country. " ^

Convening for its session in 1808 amid such an atmos-

^ Aurora, July 11, 1808; New York Commercial Advertiser, Aug. 4, 1808.