[359] Ambler’s Thomas Ritchie, 109.
[360] Ibid., 247.
[361] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 128, gives the version of the establishment of the Globe which Van Buren in his Autobiography quotes.
[362] Kendall’s Autobiography, 370-74.
[363] George Baber’s Blairs of Kentucky, Register of Kentucky Historical Society, vol. XIV.
[364] George Baber’s Blairs of Kentucky. Register of Kentucky Historical Society, vol. XIV.
[365] Globe, Feb. 17, 1834.
[366] This is Kendall’s story in his Autobiography. He gives no hint that Jackson contributed a penny. George Henry Payne, in his History of Journalism in the United States, says that the establishment of the Globe cost Jackson $50,000 a year, but as this version is Green’s, it is not at all convincing or probable.
[367] Baber’s Blairs of Kentucky.
[368] Van Buren’s Autobiography, 323.