FOOTNOTES:

[1] Life of Binney, 104.

[2] Benton’s explanation of the delay of the Bank messenger with the petition for a recharter. Thirty Years’ View.

[3] Van Buren to Butler, Retrospect of Forty Years, by Butler, 39-43.

[4] Washington Globe, Nov. 17, 1832.

[5] Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in America, 14.

[6] Harriet Martineau, Retrospect of Western Travel, I, 143.

[7] Retrospect of Forty Years, 47.

[8] The present site of the National Hotel.

[9] Sargent’s Public Men and Events, I, 53-54.