[779] The words of the official reporter of the Congressional Globe.
[780] Professor MacDonald, in Jacksonian Democracy, p. 246, says that “a large part of the deficit, however, was fairly chargeable to the cost of the large number of post-offices and post-routes established in 1832.”
[781] Cong. Globe, I, 206.
[782] Cong. Globe, I, 283, merely refers to the excitement. Sargent’s Public Men and Events gives the details.
[783] Jacksonian Democracy, 51.
[784] A Casket of Reminiscences, 65.
[785] Kendall’s Autobiography, 337.
[786] Ibid.
[787] Autobiography, 351.
[788] Miss Martineau graphically describes the attempt in her Retrospect of Western Travel, I, 161.