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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- THE PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
- JAMES BUCHANAN
- WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD
- WILLIAM H. HAYWOOD
- HUGH WHITE
- JOHN Y. MASON
- ABBOTT LAWRENCE
- THOMAS H. BENTON
- SAMUEL D. HUBBARD
- MARTIN VAN BUREN
- ROBERT C. WINTHROP
- ROGER B. TANEY
- JOHN M'LEAN
- DANIEL WEBSTER AND RUFUS CHOAT
- EDWARD A. HANNEGAN
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
- ALBERT GALLATIN
- OREGON AND CANADA, REMARKS ON
- CHARLES JARED INGERSOLL
- EDMUND GAINES
- MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY
- JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN
- HENRY CLAY
- RIGHT REV. JOHN HUGHES, CATHOLIC BISHOP OF NEW YORK
- NOTE ON THE CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE AT WASHINGTON
- ON COMMERCE
- ESSAY ON FREE TRADE, BY THE AUTHORESS
- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OREGON
- NOTES ON THE MEXICAN WAR
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- THE PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
- JAMES BUCHANAN
- WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD
- WILLIAM H. HAYWOOD
- HUGH WHITE
- JOHN Y. MASON
- ABBOTT LAWRENCE
- THOMAS H. BENTON
- SAMUEL D. HUBBARD
- MARTIN VAN BUREN
- ROBERT C. WINTHROP
- ROGER B. TANEY
- JOHN M'LEAN
- DANIEL WEBSTER AND RUFUS CHOAT
- EDWARD A. HANNEGAN
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
- ALBERT GALLATIN
- OREGON AND CANADA, REMARKS ON
- CHARLES JARED INGERSOLL
- EDMUND GAINES
- MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY
- JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN
- HENRY CLAY
- RIGHT REV. JOHN HUGHES, CATHOLIC BISHOP OF NEW YORK
- NOTE ON THE CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE AT WASHINGTON
- ON COMMERCE
- ESSAY ON FREE TRADE, BY THE AUTHORESS
- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN OREGON
- NOTES ON THE MEXICAN WAR
Summary
On arriving at the village of Kinderhook, the Doctor and I hired a nice little carriage to Lindenwood, the residence of Mr. Van Buren; it is distant three or four miles from the hamlet. It was the 12th of July, and a lovely evening; the drive was extremely pretty, through a fertile farming country, studded with fine forest trees. The house stands at a pleasant distance from the road, and the shady limes, then in the rich luxuriance of summer foliage, precluded it from view until we arrived at the door. On ringing the bell, a gentleman stepped from the parlour; and with that feeling of true unaffected politeness which would not permit a lady, female or woman (they are the same person in America, and are all regarded with the same courtesy), to wait until the arrival of an attendant, advanced himself to receive us. From the resemblance to his pictures, I immediately recognised the ex-President. I had received my husband's positive command to pay my respects to Mr. Van Buren, but I had no letter of introduction, for, on requesting this favour from some of my friends in New York, they mentioned that they had recently differed from him on political grounds, and should feel diffident upon the subject; but I had with me a letter of introduction from Lord Aberdeen, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in London, to the British Minister in Washington; to be sure it was sealed up, but that did not signify; so I presented it to Mr. Van Buren, observing that it would certify that I was not an impostor.
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- The Statesmen of America in 1846 , pp. 114 - 139Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009