[329] Senator Beveridge, in his monumental work on John Marshall, gives in detail the legal phases of the controversy, IV, 100-16.
[330] Hunt’s Life of Livingston describes in detail Livingston’s activities in connection with the battle of New Orleans.
[331] These came to be known as the “Coodies,” and Taney was known an “King Coodie” to indicate his unquestioned leadership. Tyler’s Life of Taney.
[332] Drayton was Congressman from Charleston during the Nullification fight and strongly supported Jackson.
[333] Tyler relates the incident of a personal friend of Taney’s, temporarily connected with the custom house in New York, sending him a box of cigars without his card, while he was Attorney-General. Not knowing who sent them, Taney put them aside. After leaving office, and learning the donor’s identity, he wrote an appreciative note enclosing the price of the cigars.
[334] See McLaughlin’s Life of Cass, 99, 100, for details of his fight against British insults and interference.
[335] See Smith’s Life of Cass for letter.
[336] “France: Its King, Court and Government”; “Three Hours at St. Cloud’s”; and “The Modern French Judicature.” He also, on the request of Jackson, wrote the best account of the battle of New Orleans.
[337] See McLaughlin’s Life of Cass; Young’s biography, written during Cass’s lifetime, in Smith’s Life of Cass.
[338] Kendall’s Autobiography, 73.