and an unwarrantable encroachment by the United
States Courts were charged, ^'annihilating all the power
of the States, and reducing this extensive and flour-
ishing country to one domination." * The case was
argued by Attorney-General Bradford and Jared In-
gersoll against Samuel Dexter, William Tilghman and
John Lewis, for eleven days (February 6-17). A week
later, February 24, the Court gave its decision uphold-
ing the jurisdiction of the Federal tribunals, and thus
deciding the case in favor of a party against whom the
Courts of New Hampshire had twice rendered a deci-
sion. It elicited from a Federalist newspaper in that
State a heated criticism, in the course of which it spoke
of the case as involving ""the most unjust demands
that ever disgraced the annals of our Nation . . .
whereby many gentlemen in this town are become the
subjects of ruin and distress for supporting the laws of
their own State. . . . By this decision the sovereignty
of New Hampshire is completely annihilated, its right
of legislation controverted, and properties of its sub-
jects invaded. . . . These are the blessed effects of
our Federal Courts. Publish it in Gath, publish it
throughout the United States of America! Memo-
rials have been sent to Congress which have been laid
on the table. Remonstrances have been presented,
but horribUe didu nothing done !'* ^
1 See SiaU Documents on Federal Rdatume (1911), by Herman V. Ames.
- New Hamptikirt Oaaette, May 26, 1705; see Independent Chronide, June 1,
1705; 8€dem Gaaette, May 26, 1705; General Advertiser, June 0, 1795. See also New Hampekire Oasselte, Sept. 22, 20, 1705, containing a long account of this case in which it is said : "The decision of this cause must appear at a future period, if not now, most remarkably mysterious and possibly unfathomable," and that the Legislature must devise means "to remove the just complaints of its oppressed contending jurisdictions.'*
Jeremiah Smith wrote to IfAm T. Gihnan, Dec. 16, 1705 : "That the Federal Government is a foreign one, that its administration and its measures are to be viewed through the medium of apprehension and jealousy, are sentiments cherished by many in high office in some of the States. They are sentiments no less false than pernicious." Lij^ ^ Jeremiah Smith (1845), by John H. Morison.
