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28. IX:30.
Docno: DCA02d243
Date: 1826-02-28
Morning at home, weather unpleasant, Funeral of Mr. Gaillard of S.C.,1 evening with the family, Conundrums, Executive Records.
1. John Gaillard, who had served as Senator from South Carolina since 1804, died on 26 February 1826 (
Biog. Dir. Cong.
).
March 1826. Wednesday. I. IX.
Docno: DCA02d244
Date: 1826-03-01
At home all day, weather bad, Blackstone, evening with the family, dull and gloomy.
2. IX.
Docno: DCA02d245
Date: 1826-03-02
Morning at home, Blackstone, my mother sick, evening, Ball at Mr. Vaughan’s, profusion of Champagne, John, exhibition of feelings.
3. IX:15.
Docno: DCA02d246
Date: 1826-03-03
Morning at home, Blackstone, walk with Johnson Hellen, dinner party at home, Lawyers, Mr. F. S. Key and Mr. Knapp,1 evening party at Mrs. Wirt’s, music.
1. Francis Scott Key (1779–1843), the Georgetown lawyer who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner” (
DAB
), and, presumably, Samuel L. Knapp, a Boston attorney (
Mass. Register, 1826, p. 39).
4. IX:30.
Docno: DCA02d247
Date: 1826-03-04
Morning at home, Blackstone, Newspapers, idleness, dinner, Charles King, amusing, evening at home.
5. IX:30.
Docno: DCA02d248
Date: 1826-03-05
At home all day, letters, to Richardson and George,1 dinner, Mr. Connel of Philadelphia, rather dull, evening at home.
6. IX:10.
Docno: DCA02d249
Date: 1826-03-06
Morning at home, Blackstone, weather fine, ride with John, evening, walk, W. B. Lee, Executive Record.
7. IX:15.
Docno: DCA02d250
Date: 1826-03-07
Weather rainy, to the Capitol, Miss Maese, Mr. Cambreleng, Mr. Storrs, hot debate,1 evening at home.
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1. As the House of Representatives continued to debate the proposed constitutional amendment which would have changed the method of electing the President (see entries for 15 and 17 Feb., above), Churchill Caldom Cambreleng (1786–1862), a New York Representative who led the opposition to JQA’s administration, strongly advocated the amendment and, in the course of his remarks, animadverted upon the “singular eccentricity” of Henry Randolph Storrs, his New York colleague, in opposing the proposal. Storrs replied in kind, calling Cambreleng one of the “hungry expectants” who beset the government with requests for office (
Register of Debates in Congress
, 19 Cong., 1 sess., 2:1543–1553).
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/