[479] Globe, Aug. 29, 1832.
[480] This document is in Amos Kendall’s Autobiography, 296-303.
[481] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 429.
[482] Judge Brooke.
[483] Clay to Brooke. Clay’s Works, IV, 332-33.
[484] Globe, Aug. 25, 1832.
[485] Globe, Aug. 29, 1832.
[486] Ibid., Sept. 5, 1832.
[487] Ibid., Sept. 7, 1832.
[488] Anti-Mason candidate for Governor.
[489] Clay to Bailbache, Clay’s Works, IV, 289.
[490] Richard Rush to Clay, Clay’s Works, IV, 299.
[491] Clay’s Works, IV, 304.
[492] Ibid., 306.
[493] Ibid., 307-08.
[494] See Kennedy’s Life of Wirt.
[495] Clay’s Works, IV, 316.
[496] Kennedy’s Life of Wirt, II, 314.
[497] Ibid., 318.
[498] William H. Seward’s Autobiography, 100.
[499] Clay to Brooke, Clay’s Works, IV, 339.
[500] Wirt to Carr, Kennedy’s Life of Wirt, II, 328-29.
[501] Kennedy’s Life of Wirt, II, 331.
[502] Globe, Oct. 8, 1832.
[503] McMaster, IV, 145.
[504] Van Buren’s Political Parties, 323.
[505] McMaster, IV, 146.
[506] See Biddle to James Hunter, Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 127.
[507] John Tilford.
[508] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 197.
[509] Globe, Sept. 26, 1832.
[510] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 281.
[511] Van Buren’s Political Parties, 323.
[512] Editor of the Intelligencer.
[513] Globe, Sept. 15, 1832.
[514] Ibid., Feb. 1. 1832.
[515] Parton’s Jackson, III, 423; McMaster, IV, 147. Some of these cartoons may be seen at the Congressional Library.
[516] Globe, Sept. 26, 1832, affidavit of John C. Rives.
[517] Globe, July 28, 1832.
[518] Duff Green’s expression.
[519] Globe, Oct. 17, 1832.
[520] Clay’s home.
[521] Globe, Oct. 23, 1832.
[522] Sargent’s Public Men and Events, I, 248.
[523] M. Chevalier, as quoted by Sargent, Public Men and Events, I, 249.
[524] From the Globe.
[525] Description in the Globe.
[526] Globe, Jan. 14, 1832.
[527] Ibid., Jan. 18, 1832.
[528] Ibid., July 21, 1832.
[529] Globe, Aug. 22, 1832. The Globe published Hill’s speech in full, the only one thus noticed in the campaign except Forsyth’s tariff speech attacking Clay, and C. K. Ingersoll’s tribute to Jackson at Philadelphia.
[530] That this was done is disclosed in the Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle.
[531] Clay’s Works, IV. 337.
[532] Life of Wirt, II, 378.
[533] This story was related by William Allen of Ohio to Buell, who uses it in his Life of Jackson.
[534] Letters to Hamilton, Reminiscences, 231.
[535] Blair, as quoted by Buell.
[536] See Houston’s Nullification in South Carolina, 27-28.
[537] Ibid., 70.
[538] Stillé’s Life and Services of Joel R. Poinsett.
[539] For this letter in full see Calhoun’s Works, or Jenkins’s Life of Calhoun, 195-232.
[540] Poinsett’s letter to Jackson, Oct. 23, 1830. Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.
[541] Adams’s Memoirs, May 13, 1830.
[542] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 247.
[543] George Breathitt, brother of the Governor of Kentucky.
[544] Smith’s Life of Cass, 269-71.
[545] Cass to Scott, Smith’s Life of Cass.
[546] Jackson to Poinsett, Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.
[547] Letter to Poinsett, Feb. 7, 1833, Life of Poinsett.
[548] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 248.
[549] These letters, in possession of the Livingston family, were used by Hunt in his Life of Livingston.
[550] Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.
[551] Lodge’s Life of Webster, 208.
[552] Beveridge’s John Marshall, IV, 570-73.
[553] Letter to Richard Peters, Life and Letters of Story, II, 113.
[554] Memoirs, Dec. 25, 1832.
[555] Ambler’s Thomas Ritchie, 152.
[556] Ibid.
[557] Ibid., 153.
[558] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 448.
[559] Ibid., 451.
[560] Richmond Enquirer, Dec. 13, 1832.
[561] Diary, Dec. 12, 1832.
[562] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 250.
[563] Van Buren’s Autobiography, 545-53.
[564] Van Buren’s Autobiography, 553.
[565] For Van Buren’s report, see Autobiography, 550-52.
[566] Jervey’s Robert Y. Hayne.
[567] Memoirs, Dec. 26, 1832.
[568] March’s Reminiscences of Congress.
[569] Adams’s Memoirs, Dec. 14, 1832.
[570] Jenkins, 246.
[571] First Forty Years, Dec. 25, 1832.
[572] March’s Reminiscences of Congress.
[573] Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.
[574] Letter to Jackson, Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.
[575] Poinsett to Drayton, Stillés Life of Poinsett.
[576] Letter to Poinsett, Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.
[577] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 460.
[578] Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.
[579] Instructions in letter of Cass to Scott, Smith’s Life of Cass.
[580] Jackson to Poinsett, Feb. 7, 1833, Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.
[581] Perley’s Reminiscences, I, 140.
[582] March’s Reminiscences of Congress, and Perley’s Reminiscences.
[583] Story to Brazier, Life and Letters of Story, II, 124.
[584] March, in his Reminiscences of Congress, gives the best description of the Force Bill debate.
[585] Jackson to Poinsett, Feb. 17, 1833, Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.
[586] Thirty Years’ View.
[587] Life of Webster, 214-15.
[588] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 201.
[589] Thirty Years’ View, I, 342.
[590] Ibid.
[591] Ibid.
[592] Comegys, Memoir of Clayton.
[593] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 467.
[594] Thirty Years’ View.
[595] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 343.
[596] Perley’s Reminiscences.
[597] Perley’s Reminiscences, I, 138.
[598] Clayton’s speech on the compromise tariff.
[599] Van Buren thought Clay’s action patriotic and Webster’s “bloody.” (Autobiography, 554-57.)
[600] Globe, Feb. 20, 1833.
[601] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 467.
[602] Jackson to Hamilton, Hamilton’s Reminiscences.
[603] Letcher’s character and status are discussed by Adams, Memoirs, March 5, 1831.
[604] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 467.
[605] Benton makes the point that Clayton, and not Clay or Calhoun, was the master of the situation. (Thirty Years’ View, I, 344.)
[606] Globe, March 2, 1833.
[607] Thirty Years’ View, I, 345.
[608] Mohawk Gazette.
[609] Adams’s Memoirs, March 2, 1833.
[610] Autobiography, 600.
[611] Professor Bassett credits the appointment to McLane (Life of Jackson), and Parton has it that it was a personal appointment of Jackson’s (Parton’s Life of Jackson, II, 632).
[612] See George Henry Payne’s History of Journalism in the United States, 176-89.
[613] These editorial comments were copied in the Globe by Blair.
[614] Henry Lee, quoted by Bassett, Life of Jackson, II, 633.
[615] Thurlow Weed’s Autobiography.
[616] Hone in his Diary, hostile, recorded, after witnessing the ovation, that he was “certainly the most popular man we have ever known.” (June 13, 1833.)
[617] Josiah Quincy’s Figures of the Past.
[618] Memoirs, June 17, June 18, June 27, July 2, 1833.
[619] See Quincy’s Figures of the Past for graphic description of the Massachusetts ovations.
[620] Hamilton had been previously warned of the plan by McLane. (Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 253.)
[621] Van Buren gives the impression that he actually helped Jackson work out his plans on this trip. (Autobiography, 602-03.)
[622] Hamilton’s story in his Reminiscences.
[623] Memoirs, July 2, 1833.
[624] Catterall’s Second Bank of the United States, 128.
[625] Cooper to Biddle, Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 208.
[626] Globe, March 23, 1833.
[627] Catterall, Second Bank of the United Slates, 290.
[628] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 251.
[629] Kendall’s Autobiography, 374-75.
[630] See Theodore Roosevelt’s Life of Benton, 103 and 110, on Biddle’s character.
[631] Kendall’s Autobiography.
[632] Taney’s letter to Jackson at Rip Raps in August thus referred to this advice previously given. (Tyler’s Life of Taney.)
[633] Kendall’s Autobiography, 376.
[634] Van Buren’s Autobiography, 602.
[635] During this time Jackson was deluged by propaganda letters on behalf of the Bank from “friends.” (Blair to Van Buren, Van Buren’s Autobiography, 607.)
[636] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 214.
[637] Kendall’s Autobiography.
[638] Bennett soon afterwards established the New York Herald.
[639] Significantly enough, Van Buren overlooks this incident in his Autobiography.
[640] Kendall’s Autobiography, 383.
[641] Globe, July 31, 1833.
[642] Pennsylvanian.
[643] Globe, Sept. 7, 1833.
[644] Blair carefully collected all such threats and published them in the Globe.
[645] Kendall’s Autobiography, 391.
[646] Letter to Stevenson, in Ambler’s Thomas Ritchie, 160.