[647] Diddle was trying to make it appear that the real fight was “between Chestnut Street and Wall Street—between a Faro Bank and a National Bank,” as shown in his letter to Dr. Cooper. (Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 209.)

[648] Tyler’s Life of Taney.

[649] Catterall, Second Bank of the United States, 203.

[650] Kendall, in his Autobiography, gives no hint of such discouragement or advice.

[651] Letter in Tyler’s Life of Taney.

[652] The story of the added paragraph is told in Tyler’s Life of Taney.

[653] Kendall’s Autobiography, 886.

[654] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 266.

[655] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 379.

[656] These notes are incorporated in the 5th Exhibit accompanying Duane’s Address to the People of the United States.

[657] Kendall charges that Duane hoped to “feather his nest.” (Autobiography, 385.)

[658] He served the Bank feebly during the fight that followed.

[659] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 216.

[660] Van Buren’s first choice was John Forsyth, or some Southerner, “if he is a speaking man.” (Autobiography, 606.) He tells of Daniel’s timidity in his Political Parties in the United States, 322.

[661] See Van Buren’s letter to Butler, in William Allen Butler’s A Retrospect of Forty Years, 39-43.

[662] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 280.

[663] Catterall, Second Bank of the United States, 318.

[664] Ibid.

[665] Diary, Nov. 18, 1833.

[666] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 218.

[667] Hone’s Diary, Dec. 27, 1833.

[668] Hone’s Diary, Dec. 30, 1833.

[669] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 270.

[670] William Appleton.

[671] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 219.

[672] Catterall severely criticizes the banker for this attitude; for Catterall’s righteous sentence on this state of mind, see Second Bank of the United States, 229.

[673] Second Bank of the United States, 321.

[674] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 219.

[675] Notably James Watson Webb.

[676] Binney to Biddle, Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 220.

[677] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 222.

[678] Ibid., 218.

[679] Memoirs, April 14, 1834.

[680] Hone’s Diary, Jan. 28, 1834.

[681] Ibid., Feb. 7, 1834.

[682] Kendall’s Autobiography, 411.

[683] History of the United States, IV, 201.

[684] Kendall’s Autobiography, 412.

[685] Seven Decades of the Union, 107.

[686] Catterall’s view, Second Bank of the United States, 344.

[687] Laborde.

[688] Wilson’s Washington the Capital City, I, 244.

[689] Seven Decades of the Union.

[690] Ibid.

[691] Adams’s Memoirs, Dec. 6, 1833.

[692] Cong. Globe, I, 20-21.

[693] Cong. Globe, 23.

[694] Written Dec. 30, 1833, and quoted by Catterall.

[695] Webster to Biddle, Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 218.

[696] Adams’s Memoirs, Dec. 19, 1833.

[697] Story to Webster, Life and Letters of Story, II, 156-58.

[698] Clay’s Works, V, 379.

[699] Mrs. Smith, in First Forty Years, touches on this feature.

[700] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 424.

[701] Cong. Globe, I, 74 and 123.

[702] Van Buren vividly describes these scenes, in his Autobiography, 726-27.

[703] Cong. Globe, I, 101.

[704] Senator Frelinghuysen, Cong. Globe, I, 129.

[705] Cong. Globe, I, 203.

[706] Cong. Globe, I, 228.

[707] Clay’s Works, V, 377.

[708] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 484.

[709] Cong. Globe, I, 344.

[710] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 422.

[711] Washington Globe, Feb. 13, 1834.

[712] Clay’s Works, VII, 575-620.

[713] Adams’s Memoirs, Jan. 23, 1834; Mrs. Smith’s First Forty Years, 353.

[714] March’s Reminiscences of Congress.

[715] Catterall, Second Bank of the United States, 333.

[716] Ibid.

[717] Clay’s Works, V, 377.

[718] Such is Catterall’s view.

[719] Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 143.

[720] Catterall, Second Bank of the United States, 336.

[721] Cong. Globe, I, 264.

[722] “Our city is full of distress committees. The more the better.” (Clay to Brooke, Works, V, 377.)

[723] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 420.

[724] Van Buren’s statement to Senator Foote, as given in the Casket of Reminiscences.

[725] Clay’s speech, Cong. Globe, I, 269.

[726] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 424.

[727] See Richardson’s Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

[728] Cong. Globe, I, 317.

[729] Ibid., 318.

[730] Ibid.

[731] Ibid., 321.

[732] Ibid., 323.

[733] Feb. 10, 1834.

[734] Cong. Globe, I, 328.

[735] Ibid., 368.

[736] Especially the famous passage inspired by memories of his emotions on the ramparts of Quebec.

[737] Sargent’s Public Men and Events, II, 213.

[738] Cong. Globe, I, 24.

[739] Cong. Globe, 25.

[740] Ibid., 43.

[741] Adams’s Memoirs, Dec. 23, 1833.

[742] Cong. Globe, I, 68.

[743] Ibid., 84-94.

[744] Washington Globe, June 3, 1834.

[745] Adams’s Memoirs, March 28, 1834.

[746] Adams refers to his “cadaverous look.”

[747] Cong. Globe, I, 272.

[748] Jenkins, Life of Polk.

[749] The report very clearly explained the reasons. (Cong. Globe, I, 446-48.)

[750] Cong. Globe, I, 409.

[751] Cong. Globe, I, 454.

[752] Letters and Times of the Tylers.

[753] Hone’s Diary, March 4, 5, 6, 1834.

[754] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 282.

[755] Hone’s Diary, March 21, 1834.

[756] Ibid., April 15, 1834.

[757] Hone’s Diary, April 23, 1834.

[758] Ibid., May 12, 1834.

[759] Professor Tyler, in Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 478, graphically shows the hotchpotch nature of the alliance.

[760] Ambler’s Thomas Ritchie.

[761] Van Buren, finding his friend treacherous, discusses the resignation and the character of McLane at length in his Autobiography, 611.

[762] Biddle to Appleton, Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 240.

[763] Hamilton to Woodworth, Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 244.

[764] Hone’s Diary, Oct. 4, 1834.

[765] Cong. Globe, I, 318.

[766] Diary, Oct. 31, 1834.

[767] Ibid., Nov. 5, 1834.

[768] Diary, Nov. 6, 1834.

[769] Ambler’s Thomas Ritchie, 160.

[770] Ibid., 166.

[771] The story of the Mississippi contest is told by Senator Foote in A Casket of Reminiscences, 217-18.

[772] Diary, Nov. 5, 1834.

[773] Weed’s Autobiography, I, 372.

[774] Albany Journal, Nov. 15, 1834.

[775] Hone’s Diary, April 17, and Dec. 14, 1841.

[776] Ibid., Jan. 18, 1844.

[777] Cong. Globe, I, 176.

[778] Thirty Years’ View, I, 550.

[779] The words of the official reporter of the Congressional Globe.

[780] Professor MacDonald, in Jacksonian Democracy, p. 246, says that “a large part of the deficit, however, was fairly chargeable to the cost of the large number of post-offices and post-routes established in 1832.”

[781] Cong. Globe, I, 206.

[782] Cong. Globe, I, 283, merely refers to the excitement. Sargent’s Public Men and Events gives the details.

[783] Jacksonian Democracy, 51.

[784] A Casket of Reminiscences, 65.

[785] Kendall’s Autobiography, 337.

[786] Ibid.

[787] Autobiography, 351.

[788] Miss Martineau graphically describes the attempt in her Retrospect of Western Travel, I, 161.

[789] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 509.

[790] Washington Globe, Feb. 2, 1835.

[791] Cong. Globe, I, 183-84.

[792] Washington Globe, Feb. 7. 1835.

[793] Washington Globe, Feb. 23, 1835, sets forth all these facts.

[794] Retrospect of Western Travel, I, 163.

[795] Sparks, Memories of Fifty Years, 335.

[796] Sparks, Memories of Fifty Years.

[797] Sparks, Memories of Fifty Years, 336-41; also, Foote’s Casket of Reminiscences, 218-20.

[798] Washington Globe, Feb. 28. 1835.

[799] Forsyth of Nydie, by Forsyth de Fronsac.

[800] J. F. H. Claiborne, in The Cabinet: Past and Present.

[801] Knight’s Reminiscences of Famous Georgians.

[802] In a letter written Mrs. Forsyth on board the U.S.S. Hornet bearing him to the Court of Spain, now in possession of Waddy Wood, a descendant, Washington, D.C., the beautiful relations of the Forsyths are impressively disclosed.

[803] Miller’s Bench and Bar of Georgia.

[804] Ibid.

[805] Northern’s Men of Mark in Georgia.

[806] Knight’s Reminiscences of Famous Georgians.

[807] Claiborne’s The Cabinet: Past and Present.

[808] Sparks, Memories of Fifty Years.

[809] See Foote’s Casket of Reminiscences; Miller’s Bench and Bar of Georgia; and Northern’s Men of Mark in Georgia.

[810] This letter from Arthur Schaaf to Forsyth, written from Georgetown, June 25, 1831, is in possession of Waddy Wood, Washington, D.C.

[811] Livingston to McLane, Messages and Papers, III, 130.

[812] Buchanan’s diary, Sept. 12, 1833, Buchanan’s Works, II, 388.

[813] Buchanan’s Works, II, 290-91.