27 (Return)Ibid., pp. 152-3.
28 (Return)Niles' Register, vol.xl., p. 201.
29 (Return)Ibid., p. 220.
30 (Return)Ibid., p. 253.
31 (Return)Ibid., p. 304.
32 (Return)Niles' Weekly Register, vol.xl., p. 331.
33 (Return)Ibid., vol.xli., pp. 5, 6.
34 (Return)The facts above stated are chiefly derived from a speech of Henry Clay, delivered at Lexington, Kentucky, on the 16th of May, 1829, in which all the topics here touched are forcibly and eloquently illustrated. It may be found at length inNiles' Weekly Register, vol.xxxvi., pp. 399 to 405.
35 (Return)Niles' Weekly Register, vol.xlii., pp. 86-88.
36 (Return)See this letter inNiles' Weekly Register, vol.xxxvii., pp. 91-93.
37 (Return)Niles' Weekly Register, vol.xlvii., p. 91.
38 (Return)Mr. Wirt was Attorney-General of the United States during the four last years of Mr. Monroe's and the whole of Mr. Adams' administration.
39 (Return)SeeCongressional Debates, vol.x., part 2d, p. 2758.
40 (Return)Niles' Weekly Register, N. S., vol.i., pp. 385—390, et seq.
41 (Return)Niles' Weekly Register, New Series, vol.iii., pp. 167, 168.
42 (Return)Niles' Weekly Register, New Series, vol.iii., p. 161.
43 (Return)Niles' Weekly Register, New Series, vol.v., p. 219.
44 (Return)For this letter seeNiles' Weekly Register, New Series, vol.v., p. 55.
45 (Return)See, for all the proceedings on this subject, theCongressional Globe, vol.ix., pp. 320-322.
46 (Return)See theBoston CourierandNew York Americanof the period.
47 (Return)Quincy's History of Harvard University, vol.ii., p. 567.
48 (Return)Congressional Globe, vol.xv., p. 738.
49 (Return)Niles' National Register, Second Series, vol.xvii., pp. 105-111.
50 (Return)Niles' National Register, Second Series, vol.xvii., pp. 154-159.
51 (Return)By William P. Lunt, minister of the First Congregational Church in Quincy.