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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.’’ 
