[659] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 216.
[660] Van Buren’s first choice was John Forsyth, or some Southerner, “if he is a speaking man.” (Autobiography, 606.) He tells of Daniel’s timidity in his Political Parties in the United States, 322.
[661] See Van Buren’s letter to Butler, in William Allen Butler’s A Retrospect of Forty Years, 39-43.
[662] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 280.
[663] Catterall, Second Bank of the United States, 318.
[664] Ibid.
[665] Diary, Nov. 18, 1833.
[666] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 218.
[667] Hone’s Diary, Dec. 27, 1833.
[668] Hone’s Diary, Dec. 30, 1833.