Note 1001 — Chapter VII

This was flatly untrue. No process to obtain evidence or to aid the prosecution in any way was ever denied the Administration. This statement of the President was, however, a well-merited reflection on the tyrannical conduct of the National judges in the trials of men for offenses under the Sedition Law and even under the common law. (See supra, chap. i.) But, on the one hand, Marshall had not then been appointed to the bench and was himself against the Sedition Law (see vol. ii, chap. xi, of this work); and, on the other hand, Jefferson had now become as ruthless a prosecutor as Chase or Addison ever was.