"I do not perceive how the members of Congress can possibly secure lodgings, unless they will consent to live like scholars in a college or monks in a monastery, crowded ten or twenty in a house; and utterly excluded from society." (Wolcott to his wife, July 4, 1800, Gibbs, II, 377.)
[30] Plumer to Thompson, March 19,1804, Plumer MSS. Lib. Cong. And see _Annals_, 8th Cong. 1st Sess. 282-88. The debate is instructive. The bill was lost by 9 yeas to 19 nays.
[31] Hildreth: _History of the United States_, V, 516-17.
[32] Plumer to Lowndes, Dec. 30, 1805, Plumer, 337.
[33] Channing: _History of the United States_, IV, 245.
[35] Wolcott to his wife, July 4, 1800, Gibbs, II, 377.
"The workmen are the refuse of that class and, nevertheless very high in their demands." (La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt: _Travels Through the United States of North America_, III, 650.)
[36] "To Thomas Hume, Esq., M.D.," Moore: _Poetical Works_, II, 83.
[37] See Jefferson to Short, Sept. 6, 1790, _Works of Thomas Jefferson_: Ford, VI, 146; same to Mrs. Adams, July 7, 1785, _ib._ IV, 432-33; same to Peters, June 30,1791, _ib._ VI, 276; same to Short, April 24, 1792, _ib._ 483; same to Monroe, May 26, 1795, _ib._ VIII, 179; same to Jay, Oct. 8, 1787, _Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson_: Randolph, II, 249; also see Chastellux: _Travels in North America in the Years 1780-81-82_, 299.
[38] See Singleton: _Story of the White House_, I, 42-43.
[39] Plumer to his wife, Dec. 25, 1802, Plumer, 246.
[40] "Mr. Granger [Jefferson's Postmaster-General] ... after a few bottles of champagne were emptied, on the observation of Mr. Madison that it was the most delightful wine when drank in moderation, but that more than a few glasses always produced a headache the next day, remarked with point that this was the very time to try the experiment, as the next day being Sunday would allow time for a recovery from its effects. The point was not lost upon the host and bottle after bottle came in." (S. H. Smith to his wife, April 26, 1803. Hunt, 36.)
[41] At that time it was called "The Executive Mansion" or "The President's Palace."
[42] Bryan, I, 44; also see La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, III, 642-51.