[599] Van Buren thought Clay’s action patriotic and Webster’s “bloody.” (Autobiography, 554-57.)

[600] Globe, Feb. 20, 1833.

[601] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 467.

[602] Jackson to Hamilton, Hamilton’s Reminiscences.

[603] Letcher’s character and status are discussed by Adams, Memoirs, March 5, 1831.

[604] Letters and Times of the Tylers, I, 467.

[605] Benton makes the point that Clayton, and not Clay or Calhoun, was the master of the situation. (Thirty Years’ View, I, 344.)

[606] Globe, March 2, 1833.

[607] Thirty Years’ View, I, 345.

[608] Mohawk Gazette.