[129] Amos Kendall’s Autobiography.
[130] Later in the Cabinet.
[131] Mrs. Smith’s First Forty Years, 283.
[132] Adams, Crawford, and Calhoun.
[133] Van Buren was thus known in his day.
[134] Van Buren in his Autobiography ascribes his selection to the party managers.
[135] See letter of Tazewell to Ritchie regarding the establishment of a party organ in Washington in Ambler’s Life of Thomas Ritchie.
[136] See Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 101.
[137] See ibid., p. 97, on Ingham’s original ambition.
[138] Hamilton, in his Reminiscences, p. 99, makes this unqualified statement. Professor Bassett, in his admirable Life of Jackson, p. 416, says that Jackson told Calhoun to notify the delegation of his willingness to see them. Knowing the delegation to be opposed to the man he favored, and to prefer Van Buren’s candidate, it seems more probable that Hamilton was the emissary and not the Carolinian.