The Supreme court was involved in the case, but the people who argued for their clients were Addis Emmet and Thomas J. Oakley argued for Ogden, while U.S. Attorney General William Wirt and Daniel Webster argued for Gibbons.
The loyalists believed that the patriots were in fact traitors to the Crown since they were rebelling against Great Britain. The loyalists saw no problem with the way Britain was treating the colonies.
