Mr.Gallatin in his combinations never contemplated such a contingency as the total destruction of the fiscal agency on which the government had relied for twenty years.

Unwilling to struggle longer against the mean personalities and factious opposition of his own party in Congress, he tendered his resignation to Mr.Madison.But the Republican party was a party of opposition, not of government.

With the exception of Mr.Gallatin, no competent administrative head had as yet appeared.

There was no one in the party or out of it to take his place.
Mr.Madison knew it.

Mr.Gallatin felt it, and remained.