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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1920 Excerpt:... CHAPTER XLVIII. These two Senators constituted the principal exceptions to the social and seemingly amicable relations which had sprung up between the opposition Senators and myself, notwithstanding the adverse circumstances under which we met. Yet, it is doing no injustice to the principal leaders of the opposition in that body, nor to most of the members of the second class who though not regarded as leaders were yet men of great experience and distinguished ability to say that they were all the while lying in wait, nay pining, for the performance on my part, of some act by which they might be enabled to qualify, if they could not reverse, the vantage ground I had acquired through the action of the people upon the course they had pursued towards me, an advantage of which my quiet bearing at the head of the Senate, presented a daily, and to most of them, a very grating memento. I had passed through the ordeal of my inaugural address, an affair, which under existing circumstances, could hardly have been expected to pass off without giving offense in any quarter, to the fifteenth week of the session without the happening of any such occurrence. Now, however, the hoped for transaction was believed to be on the point of being perpetrated. The straight forward and sturdy Democracy of old York county Pennsylvania having had their feelings greatly excited by the controversy which the bank and its leading supporters had waged against President Jackson, in respect to the removal of the deposits held their meeting also, and headed by their undaunted former representative, Adam King adopted a memorial to Congress on that stirring subject. They condemned in no very measured terms, the conduct of a majority of the Senate, denounced the motives by which they believed t...