[40] Six Months in America, 64.
[41] Both Hamilton (Men and Manners) and Vigne, the English barrister (Six Months in America), were shocked at the utter lack of respect for the dignity of American courts, but were impressed with the solemnity and decorum in the Supreme Court.
[42] Retrospect of Western Travel, I, 165.
[43] Men and Manners, 21.
[44] Senator Tazewell of Virginia was one of these.
[45] Van Buren to Butler, Retrospect of Forty Years, 39-43.
[46] National Intelligencer, Jan. 30, 1831, advertised a house in Georgetown on Gay Street, “convenient for the accommodation of a genteel family, having all necessary outhouses, stabling, etc.,” for $300 a year payable quarterly.
[47] Public Men and Events, I, 55.
[48] Hamilton, in Men and Manners, comments severely upon this incongruity.
[49] Perley’s Reminiscences, I, 143.