- Bird Nathaniel
- Fillmore Millard
- Marvin Richard P
- Mitchell Charles F
- Peck Luther C
- Biddle James
- Cushing Caleb
- Johnson William Cost
- Lincoln Levi
- Pope John
- Taliaferro John
- Frye Nathaniel
- Smith William S.
- M
rsW. S. Smith
Mr
Bird came here about his two claims for revolutionary
services, one of which is under the charge of Mr
Marvin, and the other under me. Four members from New-York,
Fillmore Marvin, Mitchell and Peck, came and requested me to draw up a
paper to address to their Constituents assigning their reasons for
voting against the resolution for laying all abolition petitions on the
table.— They said they wished to guard against the amputation of
favouring abolitionism, but to adhere inflexibly to the right of
Petition— I drew up accordingly a sketch of an address to the People of
the State of New-York—according to their ideas— I walked out and called
at Mr
Fendall’s— He was at dinner, but came to me in the
Parlour— I had received a note from him this morning enquiring if I had
ever been, appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States— I referred him to the Executive
Journal of the Senate, in February 1811. 714He said
that William Smith, heretofore
of South-Carolina, now of Alabama, was last winter a Judge of the
Supreme Court of the United States and declined accepting the
appointment; and has published some newspaper effusion, in which he
boasts of being the only person who ever refused that Office. Fendall
said he had told Niles that he
believed I had declined the same appointment but was not certain— I told
him I thought it had also been declined by Thomas Johnson of Maryland; but on
returning home and examining the Executive Journal I found that he
accepted and held the Office about one year.— We had company to dine,
Mr
Frye, Mr and Mrs W.
S. Smith, Messrs.
Cushing, Cost Johnson, Lincoln, Pope, and Taliaferro of the House of Representatives, and Commodore Biddle.— I had invited also
Commodore Hull; but he returned
this day to Baltimore. Mr Cushing left with
me the October number of the Eclectic Review; containing an intelligent
and powerful Article upon Texas, which I read before going to bed—