[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.