[719] Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 143.

[720] Catterall, Second Bank of the United States, 336.

[721] Cong. Globe, I, 264.

[722] “Our city is full of distress committees. The more the better.” (Clay to Brooke, Works, V, 377.)

[723] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 420.

[724] Van Buren’s statement to Senator Foote, as given in the Casket of Reminiscences.

[725] Clay’s speech, Cong. Globe, I, 269.

[726] Benton’s Thirty Years’ View, I, 424.

[727] See Richardson’s Messages and Papers of the Presidents.

[728] Cong. Globe, I, 317.