[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.