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[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.

[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_.