The party battles of the Jackson period

by Claude G. Bowers

[369] Perley’s Reminiscences, I, 191.

[370] Cong. Globe, April 14. 1836.

[371] Ibid., April 20, 1836.

[372] Ibid., May 13, 1836.

[373] Mr. Williams of Kentucky, ibid., May 30. 1836.

[374] Cong. Globe, June 3, 1836.

[375] Buchanan to Livingston. Buchanan’s Works, II, 899.

[376] Buchanan’s Works, II, 300-01.

[377] The public improvement feature of internal improvement was of less importance with the politician than the pork-barrel phase. See Schouler’s History.

[378] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 187.