[379] First Forty Years, Nov. 7, 1831.

[380] Adams’s Memoirs.

[381] Colton’s Life and Correspondence of Clay.

[382] Clay to Senator Johnson, Clay’s Works, IV, 265.

[383] Clay’s Works, IV, 275.

[384] Ibid., IV, 321.

[385] Jackson refers to his instructions in his Message of December, 1831.

[386] Benton, by quoting the instructions and Gallatin’s report, shows the dishonesty of the simulated indignation. (Thirty Years’ View, I, 216-17.)

[387] Rufus King had furnished a precedent when he described the John Adams Administration to the British. (King’s Works.)

[388] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 217.