[909] Calhoun’s speech, Cong. Globe, April 12, 1836.
[910] Ibid.
[911] Cong. Globe, April 13, 1836.
[912] Ibid.
[913] Thirty Years’ View, I, 587.
[914] Charles. H. Peck in The Jacksonian Epoch, implies (p. 281) that the tie vote was arranged by Van Buren’s friends, but Benton, who was one of the most intimate, takes the opposite view. In his Autobiography, Van Buren makes no reference to the incident.
[915] Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 340-42.
[916] South Carolina’s candidate for President.
[917] Cong. Globe, Feb. 17, 1836.
[918] Memoir of Hugh Lawson White, 333-34.