[814] Livingston to Forsyth, Messages and Papers, III, 130.

[815] Ambler’s Thomas Ritchie, 163.

[816] Associated with Blair in the publication of the Globe.

[817] Wise’s Seven Decades of the Union, 145-46.

[818] Lewis to Hamilton, Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 283.

[819] Hone’s Diary, Dec. 3, 1834.

[820] Ibid., Jan. 1, 1835.

[821] Letter to Judge May, Life and Letters of Story, II, 192.

[822] Livingston to Forsyth, Messages and Papers, III, 132.

[823] Ibid.

[824] Ibid., 135-36.

[825] Livingston to Forsyth, Messages and Papers, III, 137-38.

[826] De Rigny to Livingston, ibid., 138-39.

[827] Washington Globe, Dec. 6, 1834.

[828] Ibid.

[829] Ibid., Dec. 17, 1834.

[830] Cong. Globe, II, 95.

[831] Leigh and Preston.

[832] Cong. Globe, II, 125.

[833] Hunt’s Life of Livingston; Messages and Papers, III, 202-08.

[834] Notes exchanged between Forsyth and Serurier, Messages and Papers, III, 144-45.

[835] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 283.

[836] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 284.

[837] Cong. Globe, II, 309-10.

[838] Ibid., 310-11.

[839] Cong. Globe, II, 312.

[840] Ibid., 312-13.

[841] Ibid., 313.

[842] Binney’s Diary; Life of Binney, 126.

[843] Cong. Globe, II, 320.

[844] Cong. Globe, II, 322.

[845] General Linder’s Early Bench and Bar of Illinois, 48.

[846] Cong. Globe, II, 322.

[847] Buchanan’s Works, II, 439-41.

[848] Thirty Years’ View, I, 594.

[849] The then prevalent belief.

[850] Cong. Globe, II, 330.

[851] Serurier to Forsyth, Messages and Papers, III, 211; Forsyth to Livingston, ibid., 210.

[852] Hone’s Diary, March 14, 1835.

[853] Quoted by Benton, Thirty Years’ View, I, 592.

[854] Messages and Papers, III, 178-79.

[855] Hone’s Diary, June 23, 1835.

[856] Hone’s Diary, July 4. 1835.

[857] Hone’s Diary, Jan. 26, 1836.

[858] Hunt’s Life of Livingston.

[859] The naval activities in France are set forth by Benton, in Thirty Years’ View, I, 592-93.

[860] Cong. Globe, II, 91-92.

[861] Ibid., 92.

[862] At that time it was generally believed that a Congress died at midnight on the 3d of March rather than at noon on the 4th, as now assumed.

[863] Webster’s Works, IV, 205-29.

[864] Cong. Globe, II. 130-32. Reference is also made to the debate in Sargent’s Public Men and Events, I, 309.

[865] Adams’s Memoirs, Dec. 29, 1836.

[866] Messages and Papers, III, 221-22.

[867] Fiske’s Historical Essays, I, 308.

[868] Ibid., 307.

[869] Foster’s A Century of American Diplomacy, 273.

[870] Lewis to Hamilton, Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 259.

[871] Clay’s Works, V, 393-94.

[872] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View.

[873] This letter was published in the Frankfort Argus and copied by Blair into the Washington Globe, Nov. 28, 1835.

[874] Washington Globe, Nov. 30, 1835.

[875] Polk to White, Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 254.

[876] Washington Globe, April 2, 1835.

[877] May 28th, “Mr. Bell and the Speakership”; May 30th, “Mr. Bell and Judge White”; June 1st, “The Bank President and Mr. Bell”; June 2d, “Mr. Bell and the Bank”; June 3d, “Mr. Bell—His Banking Facilities”; June 4th, “The Result of Mr. Bell’s Machinations”; July 3d, “Bell and Gales”; July 10th, “John Bell and Davy Crockett”; August 21st, “Mr. Bell’s Preparation to Bargain Off Judge White’s Party in the House of Representatives.”

[878] Washington Globe, June 5, 1834.

[879] Ambler’s Thomas Ritchie, 170.

[880] Clay’s Works, V, 393-95.

[881] Ibid., 397-99.

[882] Clay’s Works, V, 399.

[883] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 519.

[884] John Quincy Adams could see no other object.

[885] Clay’s Works, V, 378.

[886] Forsyth to Van Buren, Butler’s Retrospect of Forty Years, 78, 79.

[887] See Montgomery’s Life of Harrison, 308-10.

[888] This is Shepard’s view in his Life of Van Buren, 256.

[889] Crockett’s Life of Van Buren, 26.

[890] Ibid., 58.

[891] Ibid., 27.

[892] Crockett’s Life of Van Buren, 80.

[893] Adams’s Diary, April 13, 1835.

[894] Hone’s Diary, Oct. 26, 1835.

[895] Van Buren’s Autobiography, 225-26, n.

[896] Tyler’s Life of Taney.

[897] Blair gives the details of the conversation, in which he participated, in the Globe of August 12, 1835.

[898] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 527.

[899] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 537.

[900] Cong. Globe, 1st Session, 24th Congress, 308.

[901] For story of the attempt see Foster’s letter to White, Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 337-38.

[902] Black of Mississippi; Leigh of Virginia; Nicholas and Porter of Louisiana; and Preston of South Carolina.

[903] Cuthbert, Moore, and Walker.

[904] Calhoun and White.

[905] Cong. Globe, 1st Session, 24th Congress, Dec. 21, 1835.

[906] Ibid.

[907] Ibid.

[908] Ibid.

[909] Calhoun’s speech, Cong. Globe, April 12, 1836.

[910] Ibid.

[911] Cong. Globe, April 13, 1836.

[912] Ibid.

[913] Thirty Years’ View, I, 587.

[914] Charles. H. Peck in The Jacksonian Epoch, implies (p. 281) that the tie vote was arranged by Van Buren’s friends, but Benton, who was one of the most intimate, takes the opposite view. In his Autobiography, Van Buren makes no reference to the incident.

[915] Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 340-42.

[916] South Carolina’s candidate for President.

[917] Cong. Globe, Feb. 17, 1836.

[918] Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 333-34.

[919] Adams’s Memoirs, Nov. 11, 1836.

[920] Ibid., Oct. 9, 1834. As we have noted, however, Adams in other parts of his diary is cordial to Van Buren, and Van Buren’s Autobiography shows the latter to have admired Adams.

[921] Hone’s Diary, April 8, 1836.

[922] Clay to White, Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 367. Clay’s real dislike of Webster is discussed by Van Buren in his Autobiography, 677-79.

[923] For Jackson’s activities in Tennessee see Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 356.

[924] White’s speech, Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 346-55.

[925] Perley’s Reminiscences, I, 198.

[926] Appendix, Cong. Globe, 2d Session, 24th Congress, 274-77.

[927] Schouler, IV, 133.

[928] Afterward Senator.

[929] Fairfield’s testimony, Cong. Globe, 2d Session, 24th Congress.

[930] Sargent’s Public Men and Events, I, 334.

[931] Appendix, Cong. Globe, 2d Session, 24th Congress, 135.

[932] Removal of deposits.

[933] Thirty Years’ View, I, 727.

[934] Sargent describes Clay’s manner and the effect, Public Men and Events, I, 337-39.

[935] Sargent, Public Men and Events I, 341.

[936] Thirty Years’ View, I, 730.

[937] Wise, Seven Decades of the Union, 143.

[938] Wise, Seven Decades of the Union, 144.

[939] Richardson, Messages and Papers.

[940] Wilson, Washington the Capital City, I, 328.

[941] Mrs. Wharton, Social Life of the Republic, 261; Wise, Seven Decades of the Union, 81; Seward, Autobiography, I, 278; Frederick Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, 17; Quincy, Figures of the Past; Powers, Impressions of America.

[942] Hone’s Diary, March 15, 1832; Life and Letters of Story, II, 117.

[943] Letter of John Fairfield, quoted from manuscript by Professor Bassett in his Life of Jackson.

[944] Holloway, Ladies of the White House.

[945] Holloway, Ladies of the White House, and Mary Crawford, Romantic Days of the Young Republic, 22-23.

[946] Wise, Seven Decades of the Union.