[158]Benton’s characterization of Van Buren’s Classification Bill;Thirty Years’ View.[159]Ellet’sCourt Circles of the Republic, 149.[160]Senator Foote’sCasket of Reminiscences, 59.[161]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 65.[162]Mrs. Smith’sFirst Forty Years.[163]First Forty Years, Feb. 25, 1829.[164]Buell’sLife of Jackson.[165]His message of 1819, found in Haywood’s brochure on Branch, deals with the strangely barbarous custom of the times of lopping off the ears of perjurers.[166]Haywood relates this incident in his brochure.[167]Ellet’sCourt Circles of the Republic, 155.[168]Senator Foote describes it, in hisCasket of Reminiscences, p. 14.[169]Perley’s Reminiscences.[170]Sketches of Public Characters.New York, 1830.[171]Lucian Lamar Knight,Reminiscences of Famous Georgians.[172]Northern’sMen of Mark in Georgia.[173]This speech was incorporated in the 4th volume ofElliot’s Debatesas an exposition of the Constitution.[174]Knight’sReminiscences.[175]Miller’sBench and Bar of Georgia.[176]Ellet’sCourt Circles of the Republic, 148.[177]“Every State in New England is now ruled by the same aristocracy that ruled in 1798—that ruled during the late war.... A band of New England Democrats have encountered the dominant party at vast odds—they have suffered every species of persecution and contumely. Shall these men not be protected by the Administration of the people under General Jackson? If that Administration fail to extend this protection, then indeed it will fail of one of the principal objects for which the people placed them in power by at least two to one of the votes of the Union.”[178]Kendall’sAutobiography, 307.[179]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 98.[180]Ibid.[181]Adams turned out but five.[182]Quoted by Francis P. Blair to Buell, author of theLife of Jackson.[183]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 98.[184]McMaster’sHistory of the People of the United States.[185]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 98.[186]Samuel Swartwout to Jesse Hoyt, in Mackenzie’sLife of Van Buren.[187]Ingham to Jesse Hoyt, Shepard’sLife of Van Buren, 210-11.[188]Shepard’sLife of Van Buren, 210.[189]Amos Kendall’sAutobiography, 286.[190]First Forty Years, 283.[191]Amos Kendall in a letter to his wife describes the extravagant lives of these clerks.Autobiography, 278.[192]Schouler’sHistory of the United States, 457.[193]Isaac Hill, quoted in Cyrus Bradley’sLife of Hill.[194]History of the United States.[195]Thirty Years’ View,I, 160.[196]Kendall’sAutobiography.[197]Bradley’sLife of Hill.[198]McKinney,The Office-Holder’s Sword of Damocles.[199]Story related by William Allen to Buell.[200]M. M. Cox.[201]William Pinckney.[202]John B. Swanton.[203]Timothy Upham.[204]D. L. White.[205]J. Robertson.[206]R. Arnold.[207]Asa Rogerson.[208]These facts are taken from Ritchie’sRichmond Enquirer, and are quoted in Professor Tyler’sLetters and Times of the Tylers.[209]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 167.[210]Professor Tyler’sLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 236.[211]Letter to his wife, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 288.[212]Letter to Dr. Curtis, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 305.[213]National Intelligencer, Sept. 15, 1859.[214]To Dr. Curtis.[215]The prediction of Justice Baldwin of the Supreme Court.[216]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 360.[217]Letter to John Rutherford, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 378.[218]G. P. R. James.[219]Letters and Times of the Tylers.[220]Tyler’s term, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 408.[221]History of the United States.[222]Henry S. Wise,Seven Decades of the Union, 99.[223]Henry S. Wise,Seven Decades of the Union, 99.[224]Letter to Richard T. Brown, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 409.[225]Mrs. Smith, inFirst Forty Years, p. 253, refers to such conversations.[226]Letter to R. W. Christian, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 408.[227]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 408.[228]Von Holst.[229]Ritchie, in theRichmond Enquirer.[230]General Bernard, chief of staff of the engineers.[231]Von Holst, 58.[232]Joseph Story.[233]Adams’sMemoirs.[234]Webster wrote to his brother: “I hope all of New England will support Mr. Calhoun for the Vice-Presidency.” (Webster’sCorrespondence.)[235]Von Holst, 62-63.[236]Sargent’sPublic Men and Events,I, 108.[237]Ibid., 109.[238]Sargent tells of his interview with Joseph McIlvaine, Recorder of Philadelphia,I, 108.[239]Quincy’sFigures of the Past.[240]Jefferson Davis in hisMemoirsdescribes Calhoun’s eyes as “yellow-brown,” while his contemporary biographer, Jenkins, tells us they were dark blue. It seems unlikely that Davis, who knew him well, could have been mistaken.[241]Benton’sThirty Years’ View,I, 13-40.[242]Adams’sMemoirs, Feb. 28, 1830.[243]March’sReminiscences of Congress.[244]Philadelphia Gazette.[245]March’s idea.[246]Henry Cabot Lodge.[247]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 118.[248]Senator Foote, inA Casket of Reminiscences, 34-36, describes his early struggles to overcome defects in enunciation, and Ludwig Lewisohn, in hisHistory of Literature in South Carolina, refers to his first oratorical triumph.[249]March, an idolater of Webster, in hisReminiscences of Congress, is almost extravagant in his praise, and Benton, in hisThirty Years’ View, is even more complimentary.[250]Sargent’sPublic Men and Events,I, 172.[251]March’sReminiscences of Congress.[252]March’sReminiscences of Congress.[253]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 177.[254]First Forty Years, 310.[255]Thirty Years’ View,I, 142.[256]Adams, in hisMemoirs, refers to the speech as “a remarkable instance of readiness in debate—a reply of at least four hours to a speech of equal length. It demolishes the whole fabric of Hayne’s speech, so that it leaves scarcely a wreck to be seen.”[257]Letter from Washington Alston Hayne, grandson, to Jervey, Hayne’s biographer.[258]Parton’sLife of Jackson.[259]Van Buren’sAutobiography.[260]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 414.[261]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 415.[262]Van Buren is authority for the statement that the President, who had prepared the toast as given in the text, really gave it—“Our Union—it must be preserved,” and that Hayne left his seat and hastened to him to beg him to insert the word “Federal.” “This,” says Van Buren, “was an ingenuous suggestion, as it seemed to make the rebuke less pungent, although it really had no such effect. The President cheerfully assented because, in point of fact, the addition only made the toast what he originally designed it to be—he having rewritten it in the bustle and excitement of the occasion, on the back of the list of regular toasts which had been laid before him, instead of using the copy in his pocket, and having omitted that word inadvertently.” (Van Buren’sAutobiography, 415).[263]Isaac Hill’s description.[264]Hamilton to Forsyth, Van Buren’sAutobiography, 369.[265]This he afterwards amended to the extent of saying that Calhoun had urged a reprimand of some sort.[266]Letter to Judge Tait, Shipp’sLife of William H. Crawford, 152.[267]Crawford in his letter to Calhoun quotes Senator Noble of Indiana, who lived in the same lodging-house with Edwards, to this effect. Shipp’sLife of Crawford, 247.[268]Crawford’s Washington country home was situated near Thomas Circle, five blocks from the Willard Hotel, and all beyond was farmlands.[269]The scene at the Crawford home is elaborately described by an eye-witness in Shipp’s biography of Crawford.[270]Van Buren, in hisAutobiography, p. 376, convincingly exonerates himself from all complicity.[271]Adams’sMemoirs, Jan. 30, 1831.[272]Memoirs, Jan. 15, 1831.[273]Ibid., Jan. 26. 1831.[274]Ibid., Jan. 30, 1831.[275]Attorney-General in Monroe’s and Adams’s Cabinets.[276]Memoirs, Feb. 4, 1831.[277]Ibid., Feb. 4. 1831.[278]Ibid., Feb. 5, 1831.[279]Memoirs, Feb. 12, 1831.[280]This letter of Crawford’s was returned to the writer, according to Shipp’sLife of Crawford, p. 210, which contains the letter—a vicious philippic—and Calhoun’s brief note on returning it.[281]Memoirs, Feb. 16, 1831.[282]Ibid., Feb. 17, 1831.[283]Memoirs, Feb. 21, 1831.[284]Ibid., Feb. 22, 1831.[285]It was not until Jackson had asked Hamilton for Forsyth’s letter that the latter told Van Buren of its contents. Van Buren’sAutobiography, 373.[286]Benton’sThirty Years’ View,I, 168.[287]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 122.[288]Perley’s Reminiscences.[289]First Forty Years, 253.[290]Haywood’sBranch.[291]Rev. J. N. Campbell.[292]Schouler,III, 492.[293]First Forty Years, 311.[294]Haywood’sBranch.[295]Adams’sMemoirs, March 18, 1830.[296]Shepard.[297]Vaughan of Great Britain and the Russian Minister.[298]Mrs. Smith.[299]Mary C. Crawford,Romantic Days of the Early Republic, 219.[300]Memoirs, March 3, 1830.[301]Ibid., July 8, 1829.[302]Adams’sMemoirs, Feb. 6, 1830.[303]Van Buren probably gives the true story in hisAutobiography, 343-44.[304]Adams’sMemoirs.[305]Later Vice-President and noted as slayer of Tecumseh.[306]Letter from Branch, in Haywood’sBranch.[307]First Forty Years, 311.[308]The story of the resignation is told in detail in Van Buren’sAutobiography.[309]Hamilton, in hisReminiscences, p. 130, tells of the ride to Wilmington.[310]Published in Haywood’sBranch.[311]Letters published in Haywood’sBranch.[312]During the Bank controversy Ingham attacked Jackson and defended the Bank. He died in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1860, never having held office after leaving the Jackson Cabinet.[313]Berrien’s position is clearly disclosed in conversations with Francis Scott Key, who wrote Roger Taney. See Tyler’sLife of Taney.[314]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 423.[315]At Philadelphia, where he met Dallas, an intimate, Livingston appears to have discussed nothing more important than his rosebuds at Montgomery Place. Hunt’sLife of Livingston.[316]First Forty Years, 252, 319.[317]Letter from F. W. Armstrong, quoted in Nancy Scott’sMemoir of Hugh Lawson White.[318]Nancy Scott’sMemoir of Hugh Lawson White.
[158]Benton’s characterization of Van Buren’s Classification Bill;Thirty Years’ View.
[158]Benton’s characterization of Van Buren’s Classification Bill;Thirty Years’ View.
[159]Ellet’sCourt Circles of the Republic, 149.
[159]Ellet’sCourt Circles of the Republic, 149.
[160]Senator Foote’sCasket of Reminiscences, 59.
[160]Senator Foote’sCasket of Reminiscences, 59.
[161]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 65.
[161]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 65.
[162]Mrs. Smith’sFirst Forty Years.
[162]Mrs. Smith’sFirst Forty Years.
[163]First Forty Years, Feb. 25, 1829.
[163]First Forty Years, Feb. 25, 1829.
[164]Buell’sLife of Jackson.
[164]Buell’sLife of Jackson.
[165]His message of 1819, found in Haywood’s brochure on Branch, deals with the strangely barbarous custom of the times of lopping off the ears of perjurers.
[165]His message of 1819, found in Haywood’s brochure on Branch, deals with the strangely barbarous custom of the times of lopping off the ears of perjurers.
[166]Haywood relates this incident in his brochure.
[166]Haywood relates this incident in his brochure.
[167]Ellet’sCourt Circles of the Republic, 155.
[167]Ellet’sCourt Circles of the Republic, 155.
[168]Senator Foote describes it, in hisCasket of Reminiscences, p. 14.
[168]Senator Foote describes it, in hisCasket of Reminiscences, p. 14.
[169]Perley’s Reminiscences.
[169]Perley’s Reminiscences.
[170]Sketches of Public Characters.New York, 1830.
[170]Sketches of Public Characters.New York, 1830.
[171]Lucian Lamar Knight,Reminiscences of Famous Georgians.
[171]Lucian Lamar Knight,Reminiscences of Famous Georgians.
[172]Northern’sMen of Mark in Georgia.
[172]Northern’sMen of Mark in Georgia.
[173]This speech was incorporated in the 4th volume ofElliot’s Debatesas an exposition of the Constitution.
[173]This speech was incorporated in the 4th volume ofElliot’s Debatesas an exposition of the Constitution.
[174]Knight’sReminiscences.
[174]Knight’sReminiscences.
[175]Miller’sBench and Bar of Georgia.
[175]Miller’sBench and Bar of Georgia.
[176]Ellet’sCourt Circles of the Republic, 148.
[176]Ellet’sCourt Circles of the Republic, 148.
[177]“Every State in New England is now ruled by the same aristocracy that ruled in 1798—that ruled during the late war.... A band of New England Democrats have encountered the dominant party at vast odds—they have suffered every species of persecution and contumely. Shall these men not be protected by the Administration of the people under General Jackson? If that Administration fail to extend this protection, then indeed it will fail of one of the principal objects for which the people placed them in power by at least two to one of the votes of the Union.”
[177]“Every State in New England is now ruled by the same aristocracy that ruled in 1798—that ruled during the late war.... A band of New England Democrats have encountered the dominant party at vast odds—they have suffered every species of persecution and contumely. Shall these men not be protected by the Administration of the people under General Jackson? If that Administration fail to extend this protection, then indeed it will fail of one of the principal objects for which the people placed them in power by at least two to one of the votes of the Union.”
[178]Kendall’sAutobiography, 307.
[178]Kendall’sAutobiography, 307.
[179]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 98.
[179]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 98.
[180]Ibid.
[180]Ibid.
[181]Adams turned out but five.
[181]Adams turned out but five.
[182]Quoted by Francis P. Blair to Buell, author of theLife of Jackson.
[182]Quoted by Francis P. Blair to Buell, author of theLife of Jackson.
[183]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 98.
[183]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 98.
[184]McMaster’sHistory of the People of the United States.
[184]McMaster’sHistory of the People of the United States.
[185]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 98.
[185]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 98.
[186]Samuel Swartwout to Jesse Hoyt, in Mackenzie’sLife of Van Buren.
[186]Samuel Swartwout to Jesse Hoyt, in Mackenzie’sLife of Van Buren.
[187]Ingham to Jesse Hoyt, Shepard’sLife of Van Buren, 210-11.
[187]Ingham to Jesse Hoyt, Shepard’sLife of Van Buren, 210-11.
[188]Shepard’sLife of Van Buren, 210.
[188]Shepard’sLife of Van Buren, 210.
[189]Amos Kendall’sAutobiography, 286.
[189]Amos Kendall’sAutobiography, 286.
[190]First Forty Years, 283.
[190]First Forty Years, 283.
[191]Amos Kendall in a letter to his wife describes the extravagant lives of these clerks.Autobiography, 278.
[191]Amos Kendall in a letter to his wife describes the extravagant lives of these clerks.Autobiography, 278.
[192]Schouler’sHistory of the United States, 457.
[192]Schouler’sHistory of the United States, 457.
[193]Isaac Hill, quoted in Cyrus Bradley’sLife of Hill.
[193]Isaac Hill, quoted in Cyrus Bradley’sLife of Hill.
[194]History of the United States.
[194]History of the United States.
[195]Thirty Years’ View,I, 160.
[195]Thirty Years’ View,I, 160.
[196]Kendall’sAutobiography.
[196]Kendall’sAutobiography.
[197]Bradley’sLife of Hill.
[197]Bradley’sLife of Hill.
[198]McKinney,The Office-Holder’s Sword of Damocles.
[198]McKinney,The Office-Holder’s Sword of Damocles.
[199]Story related by William Allen to Buell.
[199]Story related by William Allen to Buell.
[200]M. M. Cox.
[200]M. M. Cox.
[201]William Pinckney.
[201]William Pinckney.
[202]John B. Swanton.
[202]John B. Swanton.
[203]Timothy Upham.
[203]Timothy Upham.
[204]D. L. White.
[204]D. L. White.
[205]J. Robertson.
[205]J. Robertson.
[206]R. Arnold.
[206]R. Arnold.
[207]Asa Rogerson.
[207]Asa Rogerson.
[208]These facts are taken from Ritchie’sRichmond Enquirer, and are quoted in Professor Tyler’sLetters and Times of the Tylers.
[208]These facts are taken from Ritchie’sRichmond Enquirer, and are quoted in Professor Tyler’sLetters and Times of the Tylers.
[209]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 167.
[209]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 167.
[210]Professor Tyler’sLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 236.
[210]Professor Tyler’sLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 236.
[211]Letter to his wife, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 288.
[211]Letter to his wife, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 288.
[212]Letter to Dr. Curtis, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 305.
[212]Letter to Dr. Curtis, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 305.
[213]National Intelligencer, Sept. 15, 1859.
[213]National Intelligencer, Sept. 15, 1859.
[214]To Dr. Curtis.
[214]To Dr. Curtis.
[215]The prediction of Justice Baldwin of the Supreme Court.
[215]The prediction of Justice Baldwin of the Supreme Court.
[216]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 360.
[216]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 360.
[217]Letter to John Rutherford, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 378.
[217]Letter to John Rutherford, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 378.
[218]G. P. R. James.
[218]G. P. R. James.
[219]Letters and Times of the Tylers.
[219]Letters and Times of the Tylers.
[220]Tyler’s term, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 408.
[220]Tyler’s term, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 408.
[221]History of the United States.
[221]History of the United States.
[222]Henry S. Wise,Seven Decades of the Union, 99.
[222]Henry S. Wise,Seven Decades of the Union, 99.
[223]Henry S. Wise,Seven Decades of the Union, 99.
[223]Henry S. Wise,Seven Decades of the Union, 99.
[224]Letter to Richard T. Brown, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 409.
[224]Letter to Richard T. Brown, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 409.
[225]Mrs. Smith, inFirst Forty Years, p. 253, refers to such conversations.
[225]Mrs. Smith, inFirst Forty Years, p. 253, refers to such conversations.
[226]Letter to R. W. Christian, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 408.
[226]Letter to R. W. Christian, inLetters and Times of the Tylers,I, 408.
[227]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 408.
[227]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 408.
[228]Von Holst.
[228]Von Holst.
[229]Ritchie, in theRichmond Enquirer.
[229]Ritchie, in theRichmond Enquirer.
[230]General Bernard, chief of staff of the engineers.
[230]General Bernard, chief of staff of the engineers.
[231]Von Holst, 58.
[231]Von Holst, 58.
[232]Joseph Story.
[232]Joseph Story.
[233]Adams’sMemoirs.
[233]Adams’sMemoirs.
[234]Webster wrote to his brother: “I hope all of New England will support Mr. Calhoun for the Vice-Presidency.” (Webster’sCorrespondence.)
[234]Webster wrote to his brother: “I hope all of New England will support Mr. Calhoun for the Vice-Presidency.” (Webster’sCorrespondence.)
[235]Von Holst, 62-63.
[235]Von Holst, 62-63.
[236]Sargent’sPublic Men and Events,I, 108.
[236]Sargent’sPublic Men and Events,I, 108.
[237]Ibid., 109.
[237]Ibid., 109.
[238]Sargent tells of his interview with Joseph McIlvaine, Recorder of Philadelphia,I, 108.
[238]Sargent tells of his interview with Joseph McIlvaine, Recorder of Philadelphia,I, 108.
[239]Quincy’sFigures of the Past.
[239]Quincy’sFigures of the Past.
[240]Jefferson Davis in hisMemoirsdescribes Calhoun’s eyes as “yellow-brown,” while his contemporary biographer, Jenkins, tells us they were dark blue. It seems unlikely that Davis, who knew him well, could have been mistaken.
[240]Jefferson Davis in hisMemoirsdescribes Calhoun’s eyes as “yellow-brown,” while his contemporary biographer, Jenkins, tells us they were dark blue. It seems unlikely that Davis, who knew him well, could have been mistaken.
[241]Benton’sThirty Years’ View,I, 13-40.
[241]Benton’sThirty Years’ View,I, 13-40.
[242]Adams’sMemoirs, Feb. 28, 1830.
[242]Adams’sMemoirs, Feb. 28, 1830.
[243]March’sReminiscences of Congress.
[243]March’sReminiscences of Congress.
[244]Philadelphia Gazette.
[244]Philadelphia Gazette.
[245]March’s idea.
[245]March’s idea.
[246]Henry Cabot Lodge.
[246]Henry Cabot Lodge.
[247]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 118.
[247]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 118.
[248]Senator Foote, inA Casket of Reminiscences, 34-36, describes his early struggles to overcome defects in enunciation, and Ludwig Lewisohn, in hisHistory of Literature in South Carolina, refers to his first oratorical triumph.
[248]Senator Foote, inA Casket of Reminiscences, 34-36, describes his early struggles to overcome defects in enunciation, and Ludwig Lewisohn, in hisHistory of Literature in South Carolina, refers to his first oratorical triumph.
[249]March, an idolater of Webster, in hisReminiscences of Congress, is almost extravagant in his praise, and Benton, in hisThirty Years’ View, is even more complimentary.
[249]March, an idolater of Webster, in hisReminiscences of Congress, is almost extravagant in his praise, and Benton, in hisThirty Years’ View, is even more complimentary.
[250]Sargent’sPublic Men and Events,I, 172.
[250]Sargent’sPublic Men and Events,I, 172.
[251]March’sReminiscences of Congress.
[251]March’sReminiscences of Congress.
[252]March’sReminiscences of Congress.
[252]March’sReminiscences of Congress.
[253]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 177.
[253]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 177.
[254]First Forty Years, 310.
[254]First Forty Years, 310.
[255]Thirty Years’ View,I, 142.
[255]Thirty Years’ View,I, 142.
[256]Adams, in hisMemoirs, refers to the speech as “a remarkable instance of readiness in debate—a reply of at least four hours to a speech of equal length. It demolishes the whole fabric of Hayne’s speech, so that it leaves scarcely a wreck to be seen.”
[256]Adams, in hisMemoirs, refers to the speech as “a remarkable instance of readiness in debate—a reply of at least four hours to a speech of equal length. It demolishes the whole fabric of Hayne’s speech, so that it leaves scarcely a wreck to be seen.”
[257]Letter from Washington Alston Hayne, grandson, to Jervey, Hayne’s biographer.
[257]Letter from Washington Alston Hayne, grandson, to Jervey, Hayne’s biographer.
[258]Parton’sLife of Jackson.
[258]Parton’sLife of Jackson.
[259]Van Buren’sAutobiography.
[259]Van Buren’sAutobiography.
[260]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 414.
[260]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 414.
[261]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 415.
[261]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 415.
[262]Van Buren is authority for the statement that the President, who had prepared the toast as given in the text, really gave it—“Our Union—it must be preserved,” and that Hayne left his seat and hastened to him to beg him to insert the word “Federal.” “This,” says Van Buren, “was an ingenuous suggestion, as it seemed to make the rebuke less pungent, although it really had no such effect. The President cheerfully assented because, in point of fact, the addition only made the toast what he originally designed it to be—he having rewritten it in the bustle and excitement of the occasion, on the back of the list of regular toasts which had been laid before him, instead of using the copy in his pocket, and having omitted that word inadvertently.” (Van Buren’sAutobiography, 415).
[262]Van Buren is authority for the statement that the President, who had prepared the toast as given in the text, really gave it—“Our Union—it must be preserved,” and that Hayne left his seat and hastened to him to beg him to insert the word “Federal.” “This,” says Van Buren, “was an ingenuous suggestion, as it seemed to make the rebuke less pungent, although it really had no such effect. The President cheerfully assented because, in point of fact, the addition only made the toast what he originally designed it to be—he having rewritten it in the bustle and excitement of the occasion, on the back of the list of regular toasts which had been laid before him, instead of using the copy in his pocket, and having omitted that word inadvertently.” (Van Buren’sAutobiography, 415).
[263]Isaac Hill’s description.
[263]Isaac Hill’s description.
[264]Hamilton to Forsyth, Van Buren’sAutobiography, 369.
[264]Hamilton to Forsyth, Van Buren’sAutobiography, 369.
[265]This he afterwards amended to the extent of saying that Calhoun had urged a reprimand of some sort.
[265]This he afterwards amended to the extent of saying that Calhoun had urged a reprimand of some sort.
[266]Letter to Judge Tait, Shipp’sLife of William H. Crawford, 152.
[266]Letter to Judge Tait, Shipp’sLife of William H. Crawford, 152.
[267]Crawford in his letter to Calhoun quotes Senator Noble of Indiana, who lived in the same lodging-house with Edwards, to this effect. Shipp’sLife of Crawford, 247.
[267]Crawford in his letter to Calhoun quotes Senator Noble of Indiana, who lived in the same lodging-house with Edwards, to this effect. Shipp’sLife of Crawford, 247.
[268]Crawford’s Washington country home was situated near Thomas Circle, five blocks from the Willard Hotel, and all beyond was farmlands.
[268]Crawford’s Washington country home was situated near Thomas Circle, five blocks from the Willard Hotel, and all beyond was farmlands.
[269]The scene at the Crawford home is elaborately described by an eye-witness in Shipp’s biography of Crawford.
[269]The scene at the Crawford home is elaborately described by an eye-witness in Shipp’s biography of Crawford.
[270]Van Buren, in hisAutobiography, p. 376, convincingly exonerates himself from all complicity.
[270]Van Buren, in hisAutobiography, p. 376, convincingly exonerates himself from all complicity.
[271]Adams’sMemoirs, Jan. 30, 1831.
[271]Adams’sMemoirs, Jan. 30, 1831.
[272]Memoirs, Jan. 15, 1831.
[272]Memoirs, Jan. 15, 1831.
[273]Ibid., Jan. 26. 1831.
[273]Ibid., Jan. 26. 1831.
[274]Ibid., Jan. 30, 1831.
[274]Ibid., Jan. 30, 1831.
[275]Attorney-General in Monroe’s and Adams’s Cabinets.
[275]Attorney-General in Monroe’s and Adams’s Cabinets.
[276]Memoirs, Feb. 4, 1831.
[276]Memoirs, Feb. 4, 1831.
[277]Ibid., Feb. 4. 1831.
[277]Ibid., Feb. 4. 1831.
[278]Ibid., Feb. 5, 1831.
[278]Ibid., Feb. 5, 1831.
[279]Memoirs, Feb. 12, 1831.
[279]Memoirs, Feb. 12, 1831.
[280]This letter of Crawford’s was returned to the writer, according to Shipp’sLife of Crawford, p. 210, which contains the letter—a vicious philippic—and Calhoun’s brief note on returning it.
[280]This letter of Crawford’s was returned to the writer, according to Shipp’sLife of Crawford, p. 210, which contains the letter—a vicious philippic—and Calhoun’s brief note on returning it.
[281]Memoirs, Feb. 16, 1831.
[281]Memoirs, Feb. 16, 1831.
[282]Ibid., Feb. 17, 1831.
[282]Ibid., Feb. 17, 1831.
[283]Memoirs, Feb. 21, 1831.
[283]Memoirs, Feb. 21, 1831.
[284]Ibid., Feb. 22, 1831.
[284]Ibid., Feb. 22, 1831.
[285]It was not until Jackson had asked Hamilton for Forsyth’s letter that the latter told Van Buren of its contents. Van Buren’sAutobiography, 373.
[285]It was not until Jackson had asked Hamilton for Forsyth’s letter that the latter told Van Buren of its contents. Van Buren’sAutobiography, 373.
[286]Benton’sThirty Years’ View,I, 168.
[286]Benton’sThirty Years’ View,I, 168.
[287]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 122.
[287]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 122.
[288]Perley’s Reminiscences.
[288]Perley’s Reminiscences.
[289]First Forty Years, 253.
[289]First Forty Years, 253.
[290]Haywood’sBranch.
[290]Haywood’sBranch.
[291]Rev. J. N. Campbell.
[291]Rev. J. N. Campbell.
[292]Schouler,III, 492.
[292]Schouler,III, 492.
[293]First Forty Years, 311.
[293]First Forty Years, 311.
[294]Haywood’sBranch.
[294]Haywood’sBranch.
[295]Adams’sMemoirs, March 18, 1830.
[295]Adams’sMemoirs, March 18, 1830.
[296]Shepard.
[296]Shepard.
[297]Vaughan of Great Britain and the Russian Minister.
[297]Vaughan of Great Britain and the Russian Minister.
[298]Mrs. Smith.
[298]Mrs. Smith.
[299]Mary C. Crawford,Romantic Days of the Early Republic, 219.
[299]Mary C. Crawford,Romantic Days of the Early Republic, 219.
[300]Memoirs, March 3, 1830.
[300]Memoirs, March 3, 1830.
[301]Ibid., July 8, 1829.
[301]Ibid., July 8, 1829.
[302]Adams’sMemoirs, Feb. 6, 1830.
[302]Adams’sMemoirs, Feb. 6, 1830.
[303]Van Buren probably gives the true story in hisAutobiography, 343-44.
[303]Van Buren probably gives the true story in hisAutobiography, 343-44.
[304]Adams’sMemoirs.
[304]Adams’sMemoirs.
[305]Later Vice-President and noted as slayer of Tecumseh.
[305]Later Vice-President and noted as slayer of Tecumseh.
[306]Letter from Branch, in Haywood’sBranch.
[306]Letter from Branch, in Haywood’sBranch.
[307]First Forty Years, 311.
[307]First Forty Years, 311.
[308]The story of the resignation is told in detail in Van Buren’sAutobiography.
[308]The story of the resignation is told in detail in Van Buren’sAutobiography.
[309]Hamilton, in hisReminiscences, p. 130, tells of the ride to Wilmington.
[309]Hamilton, in hisReminiscences, p. 130, tells of the ride to Wilmington.
[310]Published in Haywood’sBranch.
[310]Published in Haywood’sBranch.
[311]Letters published in Haywood’sBranch.
[311]Letters published in Haywood’sBranch.
[312]During the Bank controversy Ingham attacked Jackson and defended the Bank. He died in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1860, never having held office after leaving the Jackson Cabinet.
[312]During the Bank controversy Ingham attacked Jackson and defended the Bank. He died in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1860, never having held office after leaving the Jackson Cabinet.
[313]Berrien’s position is clearly disclosed in conversations with Francis Scott Key, who wrote Roger Taney. See Tyler’sLife of Taney.
[313]Berrien’s position is clearly disclosed in conversations with Francis Scott Key, who wrote Roger Taney. See Tyler’sLife of Taney.
[314]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 423.
[314]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 423.
[315]At Philadelphia, where he met Dallas, an intimate, Livingston appears to have discussed nothing more important than his rosebuds at Montgomery Place. Hunt’sLife of Livingston.
[315]At Philadelphia, where he met Dallas, an intimate, Livingston appears to have discussed nothing more important than his rosebuds at Montgomery Place. Hunt’sLife of Livingston.
[316]First Forty Years, 252, 319.
[316]First Forty Years, 252, 319.
[317]Letter from F. W. Armstrong, quoted in Nancy Scott’sMemoir of Hugh Lawson White.
[317]Letter from F. W. Armstrong, quoted in Nancy Scott’sMemoir of Hugh Lawson White.
[318]Nancy Scott’sMemoir of Hugh Lawson White.
[318]Nancy Scott’sMemoir of Hugh Lawson White.