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made such to induce me to take early and effective steps to ] or to remedy the evils they apprehended.
Thus far were those intelligent and estimable people fron seeing what soon became obvious to qualified observers, that dent Jackson's receptions at the Presidential Mansion wou tainly not be considered inferior, either in the cost or brillia his entertainments or in the grace and dignity with which his were received, as well by himself as by the female members family, or in the genuine hospitality which they dispensed, t< of any of his most distinguished predecessors.
But my strongest "pose" was reserved for my arrival a Castle. As our boat approached the wharf at that place I nized among the crowd, as I expected to do, my particular Mr. McLane, with disappointment and deep mortification si upon every line of his intelligent countenance. His personal pations in regard to the composition of the Cabinet had been and, as he and his friends supposed, better founded than those Woodbury. He took my arm as I stepped on shore and pr that we should walk on in advance of the stagecoach, whi( sufficiently delayed to give us a tramp, not a little fatiguing in my state of health, but which gave him a fair opportui relieve his mind, so far as that could be done by "unpacki heart with words." He took the parole at once and kept i the coach overtook us. In the course of his excited harangi such it literally was, he described, in the earnest and energeti* ner usual with him when deeply moved, the degraded condii which he thought the administration already reduced thro' t vice of the evil counsellors by whom General Jackson w£ rounded, and in conclusion referred to a letter that he had A to me at Albany immediately after the selection of the C In that letter, after saying that such a Cabinet required no co and that he could not see how it could command public coni and raising a series of objections to the official arrangement, 1 mitted to my reflections whether the interests of my friends the Country required of me the sacrifice of assisting in an atte repair its defects and to give strength to the administrat:V flltUI'4' I i f i