[639] Significantly enough, Van Buren overlooks this incident in his Autobiography.

[640] Kendall’s Autobiography, 383.

[641] Globe, July 31, 1833.

[642] Pennsylvanian.

[643] Globe, Sept. 7, 1833.

[644] Blair carefully collected all such threats and published them in the Globe.

[645] Kendall’s Autobiography, 391.

[646] Letter to Stevenson, in Ambler’s Thomas Ritchie, 160.

[647] Diddle was trying to make it appear that the real fight was “between Chestnut Street and Wall Street—between a Faro Bank and a National Bank,” as shown in his letter to Dr. Cooper. (Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 209.)

[648] Tyler’s Life of Taney.