[239] Quincy’s Figures of the Past.
[240] Jefferson Davis in his Memoirs describes Calhoun’s eyes as “yellow-brown,” while his contemporary biographer, Jenkins, tells us they were dark blue. It seems unlikely that Davis, who knew him well, could have been mistaken.
[241] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 13-40.
[242] Adams’s Memoirs, Feb. 28, 1830.
[243] March’s Reminiscences of Congress.
[244] Philadelphia Gazette.
[245] March’s idea.
[246] Henry Cabot Lodge.
[247] Lodge’s Life of Webster, 118.
[248] Senator Foote, in A Casket of Reminiscences, 34-36, describes his early struggles to overcome defects in enunciation, and Ludwig Lewisohn, in his History of Literature in South Carolina, refers to his first oratorical triumph.