[43] Secretary of State and Minister to England under President Jackson, and a second time Minister to England under President Polk.
[44] Annals of Congress, 15th Cong. 2d Sess., Feb. 17, 1819, Vol. II. col. 1228.
[45] Ibid., 1235.
[46] See Niles's Weekly Register, Vol. XVII. passim.
[47] Annals of Congress, 16th Cong. 1st Sess., I. 802.
[48] Ibid., 803.
[49] Annals of Congress, ut supra, I. 940, 941, January 26, 1820.
[50] January 21 and 24, 1820: Annals of Congress, ut supra, I. 232, 236.
[51] Ibid., I. 389-417, February 15, 1820. Wheaton's Life of Pinkney, Appendix, pp. 573-612.
[52] The eminent Judge Story, who was then in Washington, mentions these conditions in a private letter, under date of February 27, 1820, as follows: "There is a great deal of heat and irritation, but most probably a compromise will take place, admitting Missouri into the Union without the restriction, and imposing it on all the other Territories."—Letter to Stephen White, Esq.: Life and Letters of Story, Vol. I. pp. 362, 363.