[249] March, an idolater of Webster, in his Reminiscences of Congress, is almost extravagant in his praise, and Benton, in his Thirty Years’ View, is even more complimentary.
[250] Sargent’s Public Men and Events, I, 172.
[251] March’s Reminiscences of Congress.
[252] March’s Reminiscences of Congress.
[253] Lodge’s Life of Webster, 177.
[254] First Forty Years, 310.
[255] Thirty Years’ View, I, 142.
[256] Adams, in his Memoirs, refers to the speech as “a remarkable instance of readiness in debate—a reply of at least four hours to a speech of equal length. It demolishes the whole fabric of Hayne’s speech, so that it leaves scarcely a wreck to be seen.”
[257] Letter from Washington Alston Hayne, grandson, to Jervey, Hayne’s biographer.
[258] Parton’s Life of Jackson.