Note 677 — Chapter V

Brown, i, 515. Story makes no comment on the argument of the Dartmouth case—a pretty sure sign that it attracted little attention in Washington. Contrast Story's silence as to this argument with his vivid description of that of M'Culloch vs. Maryland (infra, chap. vi). Goodrich attributes the scant attendance to the fact that the court sat "in a mean apartment of moderate size"; but that circumstance did not keep women as well as men from thronging the room when a notable case was to be heard or a celebrated lawyer was to speak. (See description of the argument of the case of the Nereid, supra, 133-34.)