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784 ]] illiam E. Dodd strucd, which Ritchie was to publish in the editorial column of the Enquirer. Even Madison was reported in Richmond as disap- proving the decision in the Cohens case. The people of Virginia, suffering peculiarly from the economic and financial crisis which had been on for a year or two, were ready to blame some one for all their ills. Roane led them to think that the policy of the United States government, or at least of Congress, had begun to go wrong, and that Marshall, a 'irginian, was the arch-enemy of the state. The time seemed ripe for bringing the national judiciary to terms, for silencing the chief justice at any rate. Marshall recognized the danger of the coming storm. He wrote Story, June 15, 182 1 : "The opinion of the Supreme Court in the Lottery case has been assaulted with a degree of virulence transcend- ing what has appeared on any former occasion. . . . There is on this subject no such thing as a free press in Virginia and of consequence the calumnies and misrepresentations of this gentleman [Roane] will remain uncontradicted and will by many be believed to be true. He will be supposed to be the champion of state rights, instead of being what he really is, the champion of dismemberment." ^ Then complaining of the vast influence exerted by Jefferson he adds in a letter of July 13, 1821 : " I cannot describe the surprize and morti- fication I have felt at hearing that Mr. Madison has embraced them [these Virginia views] with respect to the judicial depart- ment. ... In support of the sound principles of the constitution and of the Union of the States not a pen is drawn. In Virginia the tendency of things verges rapidly to the destruction of the govern- ment and the re-establishment of a league of sovereign states. I look elsewhere for safety." - Having heard that Hall, the editor of the American Lav.' Journal, then published in Philadelphia, would probably print Roane's " Algernon Sidney " papers, Marshall advises Story to exert him- self to prevent such an unfortunate event. He would thus deny the freedom of the press to Roane, the lack of which he laments in Virginia, or, if the papers must be printed, he thought the editor " ought to say that he published that piece by particular request ", meaning by request of Jefferson,' for Marshall thought it was only through Jefferson's influence that Roane could get a place in the Lazv Journal. Growing more despondent than was his wont our great chief justice repeats the language of a former letter: ' Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, second series, XIV. 327. -Ibid., 328, 329- 'Ibid.. 330.