Note 83 — Chapter V
Reading edition
A full account of this case, though well known and reported, is not to be found in the histories. The case was referred to as the Gideon Olmstead case in the debates in Congress at the time of South Carolina’s threatened nullification in 1833. The account of the trial of General Bright is taken from Carson’s History of the Supreme Court of the United States, p. 213 and seq.