Chapter 26

[479]Globe, Aug. 29, 1832.[480]This document is in Amos Kendall’sAutobiography, 296-303.[481]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 429.[482]Judge Brooke.[483]Clay to Brooke. Clay’sWorks,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’sWorks,IV, 289.[490]Richard Rush to Clay, Clay’sWorks,IV, 299.[491]Clay’sWorks,IV, 304.[492]Ibid., 306.[493]Ibid., 307-08.[494]See Kennedy’sLife of Wirt.[495]Clay’sWorks,IV, 316.[496]Kennedy’sLife of Wirt,II, 314.[497]Ibid., 318.[498]William H. Seward’sAutobiography, 100.[499]Clay to Brooke, Clay’sWorks,IV, 339.[500]Wirt to Carr, Kennedy’sLife of Wirt,II, 328-29.[501]Kennedy’sLife of Wirt,II, 331.[502]Globe, Oct. 8, 1832.[503]McMaster,IV, 145.[504]Van Buren’sPolitical 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’sThirty Years’ View,I, 281.[511]Van Buren’sPolitical Parties, 323.[512]Editor of theIntelligencer.[513]Globe, Sept. 15, 1832.[514]Ibid., Feb. 1. 1832.[515]Parton’sJackson,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’sPublic Men and Events,I, 248.[523]M. Chevalier, as quoted by Sargent,Public Men and Events,I, 249.[524]From theGlobe.[525]Description in theGlobe.[526]Globe, Jan. 14, 1832.[527]Ibid., Jan. 18, 1832.[528]Ibid., July 21, 1832.[529]Globe, Aug. 22, 1832. TheGlobepublished 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 theCorrespondence of Nicholas Biddle.[531]Clay’sWorks,IV. 337.[532]Life of Wirt,II, 378.[533]This story was related by William Allen of Ohio to Buell, who uses it in hisLife of Jackson.[534]Letters to Hamilton,Reminiscences, 231.[535]Blair, as quoted by Buell.[536]See Houston’sNullification in South Carolina, 27-28.[537]Ibid., 70.[538]Stillé’sLife and Services of Joel R. Poinsett.[539]For this letter in full see Calhoun’sWorks, or Jenkins’sLife of Calhoun, 195-232.[540]Poinsett’s letter to Jackson, Oct. 23, 1830. Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.[541]Adams’sMemoirs, May 13, 1830.[542]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 247.[543]George Breathitt, brother of the Governor of Kentucky.[544]Smith’sLife of Cass, 269-71.[545]Cass to Scott, Smith’sLife of Cass.[546]Jackson to Poinsett, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.[547]Letter to Poinsett, Feb. 7, 1833,Life of Poinsett.[548]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 248.[549]These letters, in possession of the Livingston family, were used by Hunt in hisLife of Livingston.[550]Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.[551]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 208.[552]Beveridge’sJohn Marshall,IV, 570-73.[553]Letter to Richard Peters,Life and Letters of Story,II, 113.[554]Memoirs, Dec. 25, 1832.[555]Ambler’sThomas 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’sReminiscences, 250.[563]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 545-53.[564]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 553.[565]For Van Buren’s report, seeAutobiography, 550-52.[566]Jervey’sRobert Y. Hayne.[567]Memoirs, Dec. 26, 1832.[568]March’sReminiscences of Congress.[569]Adams’sMemoirs, Dec. 14, 1832.[570]Jenkins, 246.[571]First Forty Years, Dec. 25, 1832.[572]March’sReminiscences of Congress.[573]Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.[574]Letter to Jackson, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.[575]Poinsett to Drayton, StillésLife of Poinsett.[576]Letter to Poinsett, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.[577]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 460.[578]Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.[579]Instructions in letter of Cass to Scott, Smith’sLife of Cass.[580]Jackson to Poinsett, Feb. 7, 1833, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.[581]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 140.[582]March’sReminiscences of Congress, andPerley’s Reminiscences.[583]Story to Brazier,Life and Letters of Story,II, 124.[584]March, in hisReminiscences of Congress, gives the best description of the Force Bill debate.[585]Jackson to Poinsett, Feb. 17, 1833, Stillé’sLife 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’sThirty 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’sReminiscences.[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’sMemoirs, 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’sLife of Jackson,II, 632).[612]See George Henry Payne’sHistory of Journalism in the United States, 176-89.[613]These editorial comments were copied in theGlobeby Blair.[614]Henry Lee, quoted by Bassett,Life of Jackson,II, 633.[615]Thurlow Weed’sAutobiography.[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’sFigures of the Past.[618]Memoirs, June 17, June 18, June 27, July 2, 1833.[619]See Quincy’sFigures of the Pastfor graphic description of the Massachusetts ovations.[620]Hamilton had been previously warned of the plan by McLane. (Hamilton’sReminiscences, 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 hisReminiscences.[623]Memoirs, July 2, 1833.[624]Catterall’sSecond 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’sReminiscences, 251.[629]Kendall’sAutobiography, 374-75.[630]See Theodore Roosevelt’sLife of Benton, 103 and 110, on Biddle’s character.[631]Kendall’sAutobiography.[632]Taney’s letter to Jackson at Rip Raps in August thus referred to this advice previously given. (Tyler’sLife of Taney.)[633]Kendall’sAutobiography, 376.[634]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 602.[635]During this time Jackson was deluged by propaganda letters on behalf of the Bank from “friends.” (Blair to Van Buren, Van Buren’sAutobiography, 607.)[636]Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 214.[637]Kendall’sAutobiography.[638]Bennett soon afterwards established theNew York Herald.[639]Significantly enough, Van Buren overlooks this incident in hisAutobiography.[640]Kendall’sAutobiography, 383.[641]Globe, July 31, 1833.[642]Pennsylvanian.[643]Globe, Sept. 7, 1833.[644]Blair carefully collected all such threats and published them in theGlobe.[645]Kendall’sAutobiography, 391.[646]Letter to Stevenson, in Ambler’sThomas Ritchie, 160.

[479]Globe, Aug. 29, 1832.

[479]Globe, Aug. 29, 1832.

[480]This document is in Amos Kendall’sAutobiography, 296-303.

[480]This document is in Amos Kendall’sAutobiography, 296-303.

[481]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 429.

[481]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 429.

[482]Judge Brooke.

[482]Judge Brooke.

[483]Clay to Brooke. Clay’sWorks,IV, 332-33.

[483]Clay to Brooke. Clay’sWorks,IV, 332-33.

[484]Globe, Aug. 25, 1832.

[484]Globe, Aug. 25, 1832.

[485]Globe, Aug. 29, 1832.

[485]Globe, Aug. 29, 1832.

[486]Ibid., Sept. 5, 1832.

[486]Ibid., Sept. 5, 1832.

[487]Ibid., Sept. 7, 1832.

[487]Ibid., Sept. 7, 1832.

[488]Anti-Mason candidate for Governor.

[488]Anti-Mason candidate for Governor.

[489]Clay to Bailbache, Clay’sWorks,IV, 289.

[489]Clay to Bailbache, Clay’sWorks,IV, 289.

[490]Richard Rush to Clay, Clay’sWorks,IV, 299.

[490]Richard Rush to Clay, Clay’sWorks,IV, 299.

[491]Clay’sWorks,IV, 304.

[491]Clay’sWorks,IV, 304.

[492]Ibid., 306.

[492]Ibid., 306.

[493]Ibid., 307-08.

[493]Ibid., 307-08.

[494]See Kennedy’sLife of Wirt.

[494]See Kennedy’sLife of Wirt.

[495]Clay’sWorks,IV, 316.

[495]Clay’sWorks,IV, 316.

[496]Kennedy’sLife of Wirt,II, 314.

[496]Kennedy’sLife of Wirt,II, 314.

[497]Ibid., 318.

[497]Ibid., 318.

[498]William H. Seward’sAutobiography, 100.

[498]William H. Seward’sAutobiography, 100.

[499]Clay to Brooke, Clay’sWorks,IV, 339.

[499]Clay to Brooke, Clay’sWorks,IV, 339.

[500]Wirt to Carr, Kennedy’sLife of Wirt,II, 328-29.

[500]Wirt to Carr, Kennedy’sLife of Wirt,II, 328-29.

[501]Kennedy’sLife of Wirt,II, 331.

[501]Kennedy’sLife of Wirt,II, 331.

[502]Globe, Oct. 8, 1832.

[502]Globe, Oct. 8, 1832.

[503]McMaster,IV, 145.

[503]McMaster,IV, 145.

[504]Van Buren’sPolitical Parties, 323.

[504]Van Buren’sPolitical Parties, 323.

[505]McMaster,IV, 146.

[505]McMaster,IV, 146.

[506]See Biddle to James Hunter,Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 127.

[506]See Biddle to James Hunter,Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 127.

[507]John Tilford.

[507]John Tilford.

[508]Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 197.

[508]Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 197.

[509]Globe, Sept. 26, 1832.

[509]Globe, Sept. 26, 1832.

[510]Benton’sThirty Years’ View,I, 281.

[510]Benton’sThirty Years’ View,I, 281.

[511]Van Buren’sPolitical Parties, 323.

[511]Van Buren’sPolitical Parties, 323.

[512]Editor of theIntelligencer.

[512]Editor of theIntelligencer.

[513]Globe, Sept. 15, 1832.

[513]Globe, Sept. 15, 1832.

[514]Ibid., Feb. 1. 1832.

[514]Ibid., Feb. 1. 1832.

[515]Parton’sJackson,III, 423; McMaster,IV, 147. Some of these cartoons may be seen at the Congressional Library.

[515]Parton’sJackson,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.

[516]Globe, Sept. 26, 1832, affidavit of John C. Rives.

[517]Globe, July 28, 1832.

[517]Globe, July 28, 1832.

[518]Duff Green’s expression.

[518]Duff Green’s expression.

[519]Globe, Oct. 17, 1832.

[519]Globe, Oct. 17, 1832.

[520]Clay’s home.

[520]Clay’s home.

[521]Globe, Oct. 23, 1832.

[521]Globe, Oct. 23, 1832.

[522]Sargent’sPublic Men and Events,I, 248.

[522]Sargent’sPublic Men and Events,I, 248.

[523]M. Chevalier, as quoted by Sargent,Public Men and Events,I, 249.

[523]M. Chevalier, as quoted by Sargent,Public Men and Events,I, 249.

[524]From theGlobe.

[524]From theGlobe.

[525]Description in theGlobe.

[525]Description in theGlobe.

[526]Globe, Jan. 14, 1832.

[526]Globe, Jan. 14, 1832.

[527]Ibid., Jan. 18, 1832.

[527]Ibid., Jan. 18, 1832.

[528]Ibid., July 21, 1832.

[528]Ibid., July 21, 1832.

[529]Globe, Aug. 22, 1832. TheGlobepublished 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.

[529]Globe, Aug. 22, 1832. TheGlobepublished 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 theCorrespondence of Nicholas Biddle.

[530]That this was done is disclosed in theCorrespondence of Nicholas Biddle.

[531]Clay’sWorks,IV. 337.

[531]Clay’sWorks,IV. 337.

[532]Life of Wirt,II, 378.

[532]Life of Wirt,II, 378.

[533]This story was related by William Allen of Ohio to Buell, who uses it in hisLife of Jackson.

[533]This story was related by William Allen of Ohio to Buell, who uses it in hisLife of Jackson.

[534]Letters to Hamilton,Reminiscences, 231.

[534]Letters to Hamilton,Reminiscences, 231.

[535]Blair, as quoted by Buell.

[535]Blair, as quoted by Buell.

[536]See Houston’sNullification in South Carolina, 27-28.

[536]See Houston’sNullification in South Carolina, 27-28.

[537]Ibid., 70.

[537]Ibid., 70.

[538]Stillé’sLife and Services of Joel R. Poinsett.

[538]Stillé’sLife and Services of Joel R. Poinsett.

[539]For this letter in full see Calhoun’sWorks, or Jenkins’sLife of Calhoun, 195-232.

[539]For this letter in full see Calhoun’sWorks, or Jenkins’sLife of Calhoun, 195-232.

[540]Poinsett’s letter to Jackson, Oct. 23, 1830. Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[540]Poinsett’s letter to Jackson, Oct. 23, 1830. Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[541]Adams’sMemoirs, May 13, 1830.

[541]Adams’sMemoirs, May 13, 1830.

[542]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 247.

[542]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 247.

[543]George Breathitt, brother of the Governor of Kentucky.

[543]George Breathitt, brother of the Governor of Kentucky.

[544]Smith’sLife of Cass, 269-71.

[544]Smith’sLife of Cass, 269-71.

[545]Cass to Scott, Smith’sLife of Cass.

[545]Cass to Scott, Smith’sLife of Cass.

[546]Jackson to Poinsett, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[546]Jackson to Poinsett, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[547]Letter to Poinsett, Feb. 7, 1833,Life of Poinsett.

[547]Letter to Poinsett, Feb. 7, 1833,Life of Poinsett.

[548]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 248.

[548]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 248.

[549]These letters, in possession of the Livingston family, were used by Hunt in hisLife of Livingston.

[549]These letters, in possession of the Livingston family, were used by Hunt in hisLife of Livingston.

[550]Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[550]Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[551]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 208.

[551]Lodge’sLife of Webster, 208.

[552]Beveridge’sJohn Marshall,IV, 570-73.

[552]Beveridge’sJohn Marshall,IV, 570-73.

[553]Letter to Richard Peters,Life and Letters of Story,II, 113.

[553]Letter to Richard Peters,Life and Letters of Story,II, 113.

[554]Memoirs, Dec. 25, 1832.

[554]Memoirs, Dec. 25, 1832.

[555]Ambler’sThomas Ritchie, 152.

[555]Ambler’sThomas Ritchie, 152.

[556]Ibid.

[556]Ibid.

[557]Ibid., 153.

[557]Ibid., 153.

[558]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 448.

[558]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 448.

[559]Ibid., 451.

[559]Ibid., 451.

[560]Richmond Enquirer, Dec. 13, 1832.

[560]Richmond Enquirer, Dec. 13, 1832.

[561]Diary, Dec. 12, 1832.

[561]Diary, Dec. 12, 1832.

[562]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 250.

[562]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 250.

[563]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 545-53.

[563]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 545-53.

[564]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 553.

[564]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 553.

[565]For Van Buren’s report, seeAutobiography, 550-52.

[565]For Van Buren’s report, seeAutobiography, 550-52.

[566]Jervey’sRobert Y. Hayne.

[566]Jervey’sRobert Y. Hayne.

[567]Memoirs, Dec. 26, 1832.

[567]Memoirs, Dec. 26, 1832.

[568]March’sReminiscences of Congress.

[568]March’sReminiscences of Congress.

[569]Adams’sMemoirs, Dec. 14, 1832.

[569]Adams’sMemoirs, Dec. 14, 1832.

[570]Jenkins, 246.

[570]Jenkins, 246.

[571]First Forty Years, Dec. 25, 1832.

[571]First Forty Years, Dec. 25, 1832.

[572]March’sReminiscences of Congress.

[572]March’sReminiscences of Congress.

[573]Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[573]Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[574]Letter to Jackson, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[574]Letter to Jackson, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[575]Poinsett to Drayton, StillésLife of Poinsett.

[575]Poinsett to Drayton, StillésLife of Poinsett.

[576]Letter to Poinsett, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[576]Letter to Poinsett, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[577]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 460.

[577]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 460.

[578]Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[578]Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[579]Instructions in letter of Cass to Scott, Smith’sLife of Cass.

[579]Instructions in letter of Cass to Scott, Smith’sLife of Cass.

[580]Jackson to Poinsett, Feb. 7, 1833, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[580]Jackson to Poinsett, Feb. 7, 1833, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[581]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 140.

[581]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 140.

[582]March’sReminiscences of Congress, andPerley’s Reminiscences.

[582]March’sReminiscences of Congress, andPerley’s Reminiscences.

[583]Story to Brazier,Life and Letters of Story,II, 124.

[583]Story to Brazier,Life and Letters of Story,II, 124.

[584]March, in hisReminiscences of Congress, gives the best description of the Force Bill debate.

[584]March, in hisReminiscences of Congress, gives the best description of the Force Bill debate.

[585]Jackson to Poinsett, Feb. 17, 1833, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[585]Jackson to Poinsett, Feb. 17, 1833, Stillé’sLife of Poinsett.

[586]Thirty Years’ View.

[586]Thirty Years’ View.

[587]Life of Webster, 214-15.

[587]Life of Webster, 214-15.

[588]Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 201.

[588]Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 201.

[589]Thirty Years’ View,I, 342.

[589]Thirty Years’ View,I, 342.

[590]Ibid.

[590]Ibid.

[591]Ibid.

[591]Ibid.

[592]Comegys,Memoir of Clayton.

[592]Comegys,Memoir of Clayton.

[593]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 467.

[593]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 467.

[594]Thirty Years’ View.

[594]Thirty Years’ View.

[595]Benton’sThirty Years’ View,I, 343.

[595]Benton’sThirty Years’ View,I, 343.

[596]Perley’s Reminiscences.

[596]Perley’s Reminiscences.

[597]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 138.

[597]Perley’s Reminiscences,I, 138.

[598]Clayton’s speech on the compromise tariff.

[598]Clayton’s speech on the compromise tariff.

[599]Van Buren thought Clay’s action patriotic and Webster’s “bloody.” (Autobiography, 554-57.)

[599]Van Buren thought Clay’s action patriotic and Webster’s “bloody.” (Autobiography, 554-57.)

[600]Globe, Feb. 20, 1833.

[600]Globe, Feb. 20, 1833.

[601]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 467.

[601]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 467.

[602]Jackson to Hamilton, Hamilton’sReminiscences.

[602]Jackson to Hamilton, Hamilton’sReminiscences.

[603]Letcher’s character and status are discussed by Adams,Memoirs, March 5, 1831.

[603]Letcher’s character and status are discussed by Adams,Memoirs, March 5, 1831.

[604]Letters and Times of the Tylers,I, 467.

[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.)

[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.

[606]Globe, March 2, 1833.

[607]Thirty Years’ View,I, 345.

[607]Thirty Years’ View,I, 345.

[608]Mohawk Gazette.

[608]Mohawk Gazette.

[609]Adams’sMemoirs, March 2, 1833.

[609]Adams’sMemoirs, March 2, 1833.

[610]Autobiography, 600.

[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’sLife of Jackson,II, 632).

[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’sLife of Jackson,II, 632).

[612]See George Henry Payne’sHistory of Journalism in the United States, 176-89.

[612]See George Henry Payne’sHistory of Journalism in the United States, 176-89.

[613]These editorial comments were copied in theGlobeby Blair.

[613]These editorial comments were copied in theGlobeby Blair.

[614]Henry Lee, quoted by Bassett,Life of Jackson,II, 633.

[614]Henry Lee, quoted by Bassett,Life of Jackson,II, 633.

[615]Thurlow Weed’sAutobiography.

[615]Thurlow Weed’sAutobiography.

[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.)

[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’sFigures of the Past.

[617]Josiah Quincy’sFigures of the Past.

[618]Memoirs, June 17, June 18, June 27, July 2, 1833.

[618]Memoirs, June 17, June 18, June 27, July 2, 1833.

[619]See Quincy’sFigures of the Pastfor graphic description of the Massachusetts ovations.

[619]See Quincy’sFigures of the Pastfor graphic description of the Massachusetts ovations.

[620]Hamilton had been previously warned of the plan by McLane. (Hamilton’sReminiscences, 253.)

[620]Hamilton had been previously warned of the plan by McLane. (Hamilton’sReminiscences, 253.)

[621]Van Buren gives the impression that he actually helped Jackson work out his plans on this trip. (Autobiography, 602-03.)

[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 hisReminiscences.

[622]Hamilton’s story in hisReminiscences.

[623]Memoirs, July 2, 1833.

[623]Memoirs, July 2, 1833.

[624]Catterall’sSecond Bank of the United States, 128.

[624]Catterall’sSecond Bank of the United States, 128.

[625]Cooper to Biddle,Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 208.

[625]Cooper to Biddle,Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 208.

[626]Globe, March 23, 1833.

[626]Globe, March 23, 1833.

[627]Catterall,Second Bank of the United Slates, 290.

[627]Catterall,Second Bank of the United Slates, 290.

[628]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 251.

[628]Hamilton’sReminiscences, 251.

[629]Kendall’sAutobiography, 374-75.

[629]Kendall’sAutobiography, 374-75.

[630]See Theodore Roosevelt’sLife of Benton, 103 and 110, on Biddle’s character.

[630]See Theodore Roosevelt’sLife of Benton, 103 and 110, on Biddle’s character.

[631]Kendall’sAutobiography.

[631]Kendall’sAutobiography.

[632]Taney’s letter to Jackson at Rip Raps in August thus referred to this advice previously given. (Tyler’sLife of Taney.)

[632]Taney’s letter to Jackson at Rip Raps in August thus referred to this advice previously given. (Tyler’sLife of Taney.)

[633]Kendall’sAutobiography, 376.

[633]Kendall’sAutobiography, 376.

[634]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 602.

[634]Van Buren’sAutobiography, 602.

[635]During this time Jackson was deluged by propaganda letters on behalf of the Bank from “friends.” (Blair to Van Buren, Van Buren’sAutobiography, 607.)

[635]During this time Jackson was deluged by propaganda letters on behalf of the Bank from “friends.” (Blair to Van Buren, Van Buren’sAutobiography, 607.)

[636]Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 214.

[636]Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 214.

[637]Kendall’sAutobiography.

[637]Kendall’sAutobiography.

[638]Bennett soon afterwards established theNew York Herald.

[638]Bennett soon afterwards established theNew York Herald.

[639]Significantly enough, Van Buren overlooks this incident in hisAutobiography.

[639]Significantly enough, Van Buren overlooks this incident in hisAutobiography.

[640]Kendall’sAutobiography, 383.

[640]Kendall’sAutobiography, 383.

[641]Globe, July 31, 1833.

[641]Globe, July 31, 1833.

[642]Pennsylvanian.

[642]Pennsylvanian.

[643]Globe, Sept. 7, 1833.

[643]Globe, Sept. 7, 1833.

[644]Blair carefully collected all such threats and published them in theGlobe.

[644]Blair carefully collected all such threats and published them in theGlobe.

[645]Kendall’sAutobiography, 391.

[645]Kendall’sAutobiography, 391.

[646]Letter to Stevenson, in Ambler’sThomas Ritchie, 160.

[646]Letter to Stevenson, in Ambler’sThomas Ritchie, 160.


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