The party battles of the Jackson period

by Claude G. Bowers

[159] Ellet’s Court Circles of the Republic, 149.

[160] Senator Foote’s Casket of Reminiscences, 59.

[161] Perley’s Reminiscences, I, 65.

[162] Mrs. Smith’s First Forty Years.

[163] First Forty Years, Feb. 25, 1829.

[164] Buell’s Life of Jackson.

[165] His message of 1819, found in Haywood’s brochure on Branch, deals with the strangely barbarous custom of the times of lopping off the ears of perjurers.

[166] Haywood relates this incident in his brochure.

[167] Ellet’s Court Circles of the Republic, 155.

[168] Senator Foote describes it, in his Casket of Reminiscences, p. 14.