[149] Hamilton, in his Reminiscences, p. 100, tells of his report to Jackson on Barry’s application.

[150] Hamilton. See Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 90-91.

[151] Mrs. Smith thus writes in the First Forty Years, and her salon was the center of Whig gossip.

[152] Mrs. Smith’s First Forty Years.

[153] Adams’s Memoirs, March 14, 1829.

[154] First Forty Years, March 12, 1829.

[155] Adams’s Memoirs, March 12, 1829.

[156] American Statesmen Series.

[157] Adams’s Memoirs, April 4, 1829.

[158] Benton’s characterization of Van Buren’s Classification Bill; Thirty Years’ View.