[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.