[539] For this letter in full see Calhoun’s Works, or Jenkins’s Life of Calhoun, 195-232.

[540] Poinsett’s letter to Jackson, Oct. 23, 1830. Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.

[541] Adams’s Memoirs, May 13, 1830.

[542] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 247.

[543] George Breathitt, brother of the Governor of Kentucky.

[544] Smith’s Life of Cass, 269-71.

[545] Cass to Scott, Smith’s Life of Cass.

[546] Jackson to Poinsett, Stillé’s Life of Poinsett.

[547] Letter to Poinsett, Feb. 7, 1833, Life of Poinsett.

[548] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 248.