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He had a particular liking for the killing of those wonderful beasts, half dog half fish, called "Roane," or seals, no doubt because he got a long price for their skins, which are not less curious than they are valuable.
Hylton et al., Curtis, Decisions, i. 164-229. Wirt, 316-318. Ibid. 312. Edward Fontaine, MS. Howe, Hist. Coll. Va. 221. Wirt, 312. Wirt, 320-321; 368-369. McRee, Life of Iredell, ii. 394. Memorandum of J. W. Bouldin, in Hist. Mag. for 1873, 274-275. Howe, Hist. Coll. Va. 222. Judge Spencer Roane, MS. McRee, Life of Iredell, ii. 395. Wirt, 75-76. J. W. Alexander, Life of A. Alexander, 191-192.
It is said that, on the day of the argument, Roane had invited a party to dine with him, and after the adjournment of the court went to his study at home, where he appeared moody and abstracted.
The head and front of the Virginia court at this time was Spencer Roane, described as "the most powerful politician in the State," an ardent Jeffersonian, and an enemy of Marshall on his own account, for had Ellsworth not resigned so inopportunely, late in 1800, and had Jefferson had the appointment of his successor, Roane would have been the man. His opinion in Hunter vs.
She did a lot of disagreeable things for Miss Bray, and Miss Bray didn't want to lose her. And when Mrs. Roane, who is the only Board lady truly seeing through her, asked, real sharplike, why Pinkie shouldn't go this time, Miss Bray spoke out like she was really grieved. "I declare, Mrs.
Indeed, the enfant terrible of State Rights, the Madison of 1787-88, Roane would fain conceal behind the Madison of ten years later; and the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and the Report of 1799 he regards the earliest "just exposition of the principles of the Constitution."
He was born in 1760, in Brunswick as Brunswick then was, was educated at William and Mary, while Wythe was professor of law, having as his college associates John Marshall, Spencer Roane, the amiable and patriotic Samuel Hardy, who was destined to fall too soon, and at whose grave Virginia sat in mourning, Archibald Stuart, Bushrod Washington, William Short, our Minister to Spain, et alii haud impares: was one of the founders of the Phi Beta Kappa Society an institution which will make his name immortal and began the practice of the law in his native county.
Jackson, then twenty-nine, was defeated for the post of Major General of the Militia through the influence which Sevier exercised against him, and it seems that Jackson never forgave this opposition to his ambitions. By the close of Sevier's third term, however, in 1802, when Archibald Roane became Governor, the post of Major General was again vacant.
Selden was annoyed. The letter might have been from Mr. Madison, or Mr. Monroe, or Albert Gallatin, or John Randolph, though John Randolph, too, had quarrelled with the President, or Spencer Roane, or almost any great Democrat-Republican. It was no business of hers whom it was from. A colour crept into her withered cheek, and she tapped her black silk shoe upon the floor of the coach.
Cited in Wirt, 380-381. Spencer Roane, MS. Fontaine, MS. Fontaine, MS. Fontaine, MS. Bancroft, ed. 1869, vi. 416-417. Elliot, Debates, iii. 455-456; 590-591. Spencer Roane, MS. Fontaine, MS. J. W. Alexander, Life of A. Alexander, 193; Howe, Hist. Coll. Va. 221. Wirt, 402. Fontaine, MS. Meade, Old Churches, etc. ii. 12. Wirt, 387. Fontaine, MS.
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