[769] Ambler’s Thomas Ritchie, 160.

[770] Ibid., 166.

[771] The story of the Mississippi contest is told by Senator Foote in A Casket of Reminiscences, 217-18.

[772] Diary, Nov. 5, 1834.

[773] Weed’s Autobiography, I, 372.

[774] Albany Journal, Nov. 15, 1834.

[775] Hone’s Diary, April 17, and Dec. 14, 1841.

[776] Ibid., Jan. 18, 1844.

[777] Cong. Globe, I, 176.

[778] Thirty Years’ View, I, 550.