[229] Ritchie, in the Richmond Enquirer.
[230] General Bernard, chief of staff of the engineers.
[231] Von Holst, 58.
[232] Joseph Story.
[233] Adams’s Memoirs.
[234] Webster wrote to his brother: “I hope all of New England will support Mr. Calhoun for the Vice-Presidency.” (Webster’s Correspondence.)
[235] Von Holst, 62-63.
[236] Sargent’s Public Men and Events, I, 108.
[237] Ibid., 109.
[238] Sargent tells of his interview with Joseph McIlvaine, Recorder of Philadelphia, I, 108.