[859] The naval activities in France are set forth by Benton, in Thirty Years’ View, I, 592-93.
[860] Cong. Globe, II, 91-92.
[861] Ibid., 92.
[862] At that time it was generally believed that a Congress died at midnight on the 3d of March rather than at noon on the 4th, as now assumed.
[863] Webster’s Works, IV, 205-29.
[864] Cong. Globe, II. 130-32. Reference is also made to the debate in Sargent’s Public Men and Events, I, 309.
[865] Adams’s Memoirs, Dec. 29, 1836.
[866] Messages and Papers, III, 221-22.
[867] Fiske’s Historical Essays, I, 308.
[868] Ibid., 307.