Mr.Gallatin felt it deeply and tendered his resignation.

The administration was going to pieces by sheer incapacity.

The leaders took alarm and the cabinet was reconstructed, Monroe being called to the Department of State.

But the enemies of Mr.Gallatin still clung to his skirts, determined to drag him to the dust.

Duane attacked him in the most dangerous manner.
Probably no man in America has ever been abused, vilified, maligned with such deliberate persistency as was Gallatin in the "Aurora" from the beginning of 1811 until the cabinet crisis, when Mr.Madison was compelled to choose between Smith and himself.