[669] Hamilton’s Reminiscences, 270.

[670] William Appleton.

[671] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 219.

[672] Catterall severely criticizes the banker for this attitude; for Catterall’s righteous sentence on this state of mind, see Second Bank of the United States, 229.

[673] Second Bank of the United States, 321.

[674] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 219.

[675] Notably James Watson Webb.

[676] Binney to Biddle, Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 220.

[677] Correspondence of Nicholas Biddle, 222.

[678] Ibid., 218.