[83] A full account of this case, though well known and reported, is not to be found in the histories. The case was referred to as the Gideon Olmstead case in the debates in Congress at the time of South Carolina’s threatened nullification in 1833. The account of the trial of General Bright is taken from Carson’s _History of the Supreme Court of the United States_, p. 213 and _seq._ Nor is this all of this matter. Pennsylvania, though finally yielding an obedience to the United States, felt aggrieved, and suggested an amendment to the Constitution, that questions arising between States and the federal judiciary should be submitted to an impartial tribunal, and sent the proposed amendment to Virginia. The Legislature of Virginia appointed a committee to consider this proposed amendment, part of whose report was, “that a tribunal is already provided by the Constitution of the United States, to wit, the Supreme Court, more eminently qualified, from their habits and duties, from the mode of their selection, and from their tenure of office, to decide the disputes aforesaid in an enlightened and impartial manner than any other tribunal that could be created.” The resolutions disapproving the proposed amendment were passed _unanimously_, both in the House of Delegates and Senate.[84] Thus in January, 1810, only ten years after her own resolutions and explanations, Virginia, instead of giving countenance to the nullification doctrine of Kentucky, and replying to Pennsylvania that, as a State, a party making the compact, you have a right to judge whether the United States exceeds its authority, declared that a fit tribunal for the trial of questions between the States and the United States existed in the Supreme Court of the United States, and that a better one could not be created. This should be conclusive that Virginia republicanism in no way countenanced nullification. [84] Webster’s _Speeches_, 8th ed., 1850, vol. i., pp. 427, 428. See part of report and resolutions of Virginia in Mr. Pinckney’s argument in Cohens _vs._ Virginia, 6 Wheaton, Rep., 264. Immediately after the commencement of his administration, Jefferson, and Madison, the Secretary of State, entered into negotiations with France for the acquisition of the province of Louisiana and the immense territory belonging to it. The purchase was completed early in 1803, and by it and for all time the power of the old States in the Union was diminished. Even a liberal constructionist might have hesitated as to its constitutionality. Jefferson himself had his doubts. Neither he, however, nor any of his party took any measures to have an amendment of the Constitution to sanction it. It was indeed a measure of vital necessity, and acquiesced in by the people of all the States as such.