[609] Adams’s Memoirs, March 2, 1833.
[610] Autobiography, 600.
[611] Professor Bassett credits the appointment to McLane (Life of Jackson), and Parton has it that it was a personal appointment of Jackson’s (Parton’s Life of Jackson, II, 632).
[612] See George Henry Payne’s History of Journalism in the United States, 176-89.
[613] These editorial comments were copied in the Globe by Blair.
[614] Henry Lee, quoted by Bassett, Life of Jackson, II, 633.
[615] Thurlow Weed’s Autobiography.
[616] Hone in his Diary, hostile, recorded, after witnessing the ovation, that he was “certainly the most popular man we have ever known.” (June 13, 1833.)
[617] Josiah Quincy’s Figures of the Past.
[618] Memoirs, June 17, June 18, June 27, July 2, 1833.