m Jeffersonians, 398;
testimony of Iredell to his liberality, 398;
declines appointment as United States senator, 398;
believes that Washington considers him an enemy, 399;
reconciled to Washington by Henry Lee, 399;
his letter to Lee, 400, 401;
dislikes democratic societies, 401;
offered position as secretary of state, 402;
declines it, 402;
receives from Washington through Lee an offer of chief justiceship,
402, 403;
Washington's anxiety for his acceptance, 403;
declines it, 404; considered by Federalists for vice-presidency, 404;
sneered at by Jefferson, 404;
denies that he has changed opinions, 405;
dislikes Jay treaty, but condemns attempt of House to participate in
treaty power, 405;
elected governor of Virginia, declines, 406;
asked to express his opinion on political situation in 1799, 408;
believes that Jefferson's party plans disunion, 409;
alarmed at French Revolution, 409;
especially at infidelity, 410;
compliments Marshall's bearing in France, and wishes his election to
Congress, 410, 411;
urges American national feeling, 410;
declines Adams's nomination as minister to France, 412;
but expresses his sympathy with him, 412;
appealed to by Washington to come forward against the Democrats, 413,
414;
comes out from retirement as candidate for legislature, 415;
great public interest, 415;
description of his last speech, 416-419;
dissuades from resistance to the government, 417;
denies the power of a State to decide on federal laws, 418;
urges harmony and use of constitutional means of redress, 418, 419;
his meeting with John Randolph, 420;
elected by a great majority, 420;
returns home, 421;
his last illness and death, 421-423.
_Characteristics._
Absence of self-consciousness, 77;
abstemiousness, 386, 387;
audacity, 64, 69, 294;
business inefficiency, 6, 7, 8, 388;
early fondness for the woods, 5, 29, 30;
education, 6, 10, 13-17, 122;
eloquence, 48-52, 61, 64, 72, 93, 98, 115, 128, 140-151, 159, 295,
297, 333-338, 363, 365, 368-381, 418;
friendships, 251, 252, 273, 399;
geniality and kindliness, 57, 58, 117, 220, 277, 332, 385, 398,
399-401;
high spirits, 8, 9, 18, 76;
honor, 245, 251;