[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.