The party battles of the Jackson period

by Claude G. Bowers

[449] Webster to Biddle, ibid., 145.

[450] Site of the Willard, 14th Street and the Avenue.

[451] These ten, Dickerson of New Jersey, Dallas and Wilkins of Pennsylvania, Smith of Maryland, Mangum of North Carolina, Forsyth of Georgia, Poindexter of Mississippi, Kane and Robinson of Illinois, and Hendricks of Indiana.

[452] For Cadwalader’s reports see Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 146-61.

[453] McLane to Biddle, ibid., 165.

[454] Webster to Biddle, ibid., 169.

[455] Weed’s Autobiography, I, 373.

[456] Weed’s Autobiography, I, 373.

[457] Ingersoll to Biddle, Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 187.

[458] Ibid., 188.