Ten years later he uttered the same opinion in a conversation with Miss Martineau, and he expressed a preference for an annual president, a cipher, so that all would be done by the ministry.

But in the impossibility of this plan, he would have preferred a four years' term without renewal or an extension of six years; an idea adopted by Davis in his plan of disintegration by secession.

The presidency, Mr.Gallatin thought, was "too much power for one man; therefore it fills all men's thoughts to the detriment of better things." When Mr.Gallatin visited Washington in 1829, he found a state of society, political and social, widely at variance with his own experience.

The ways of Federalist and Republican cabinets were traditions of an irrevocable past.

Jackson was political dictator, and took counsel only from his prejudices.