[139] The Carolinian’s opposition to Ingham was due to his tariff views.

[140] From speech of Branch, quoted in Haywood’s brochure on Branch, pp. 14-15.

[141] Adams knew of McLean’s treachery, and in his Memoirs denounces him bitterly.

[142] Adams’s Memoirs, Feb. 24, 1829.

[143] Ibid., Feb. 28, 1829.

[144] Wilson’s Washington, the Capital City, I, 251.

[145] Mrs. Smith’s First Forty Years, 295.

[146] Adams’s Memoirs, March 4, 1829.

[147] Perley’s Reminiscences, I, 98.

[148] Sargent’s Public Men and Events, I, 165-66.