[269] The scene at the Crawford home is elaborately described by an eye-witness in Shipp’s biography of Crawford.
[270] Van Buren, in his Autobiography, p. 376, convincingly exonerates himself from all complicity.
[271] Adams’s Memoirs, Jan. 30, 1831.
[272] Memoirs, Jan. 15, 1831.
[273] Ibid., Jan. 26. 1831.
[274] Ibid., Jan. 30, 1831.
[275] Attorney-General in Monroe’s and Adams’s Cabinets.
[276] Memoirs, Feb. 4, 1831.
[277] Ibid., Feb. 4. 1831.
[278] Ibid., Feb. 5, 1831.