Note 715 — Chapter V
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Webster to Mason, March 13, 1818, Priv. Corres.: Webster, i, 275.
"Every body was grinning at the folly he uttered. Bell could not stand it. He seized his hat and went off." (Webster to Smith, March 14, 1818, ib. 277; and see Webster to Brown, March 11, 1818, Van Tyne, 75-76.)
Holmes "has attempted as a politician ... such a desire to be admired by everybody, that he has ceased for weeks to be regarded by anybody.... In the Dartmouth College Cause, he sunk lower at the bar than he had in the Hall of Legislature." (Daggett to Mason, March 18, 1818, Hillard: Memoir and Correspondence of Jeremiah Mason, 199.)
The contempt of the legal profession for Holmes is shown by the fact that in Farrar's Report but four and one half pages are given to his argument, while those of all other counsel for Woodward (Sullivan and Bartlett in the State court and Wirt in the Supreme Court) are published in full.