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 able that their subscription could be 

 obtained without a law to that effect 

 from Congress. " 



At this time he also met the Presi- 

 dent, General Jackson : ' ' He was very 

 kind, and as soon as he heard that we 

 intended departing to-morrow evening 

 for Charleston, invited us to dine 

 with him en famille. At the hour 

 named we went to the White House, 

 and were taken into a room, where 

 the President soon joined us, I sat 

 close to him ; we spoke of olden times, 

 and touched slightly on politics, and I 

 found him very averse to the Cause of 

 the Texans. . . . The dinner was what 

 might be called plain and substantial in 

 England ; I dined from a fine young 

 turkey, shot within twenty miles of 

 Washington. The General drank no 

 wine, but his health was drunk by us 

 more than once ; and he ate very mod- 

 erately ; his last dish consisting of bread 

 and milk." 



