[439] Speech at Cincinnati, Clay’s Works, VII, 396.
[440] Commenting on it in the Globe, Jan. 14, 1832, Blair concludes: “The object of the Bank and politicians who build their hopes upon its power is at once to procure a new charter from a Congress which has not been elected by the people to pass upon that question.”
[441] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 234.
[442] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 235-36.
[443] Ibid., 234-35.
[444] Edward Shippen to Biddle, Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 136.
[445] Ibid., 138.
[446] Robert Gibbs to Biddle, Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 139.
[447] C. F. Mercer to Biddle, ibid., 140.
[448] Clay to Biddle, ibid., 142.