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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 11 1 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 22: the secret service fund--charges against Webster, 1845-46. (search)
t more prominently into notice by an attack made upon Mr. Webster by Mr. Charles Jared Ingersoll in the House of Representatives. The hands of the public men of onor of a senator startled his colleagues like a fire-bell in the night. Mr. Ingersoll astonished the House and Senate by moving an inquiry into Mr. Webster's con for the English Government, avowed the act and demanded McLeod's release. Mr. Ingersoll accused Mr. Webster of using the contingent fund and his personal influencese deficits which have been discovered in the public funds, this inquiry of Mr. Ingersoll's seems to have been a mere tempest in a tea-pot. Then it stirred men deep prevailing impression made upon the moderate men of both parties was that Mr. Ingersoll's spleen was the result of some private pique. Mr. Webster made rather resolution called up T. Butler King, of Georgia, in defence of Mr. Webster; Mr. Ingersoll in reiteration and reaffirmation; Mr. Ashman, of Massachusetts, in defence.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingersoll, Charles Jared 1782-1862 (search)
Ingersoll, Charles Jared 1782-1862 Statesman; born in Philadelphia, Oct. 3, 1782; became a lawyer, and was attached to the legation of Rufus King when he was minister to France. After travelling in Europe, he returned, and published a poem in 1800, and a tragedy in 1801. In 1810 he published a political satire, called Inchiquin the Jesuit's letters. In 1813 he was in Congress, and from 1815 to 1829 he was United States district-attorney. He was again in Congress from 1841 to 1847, when he was a Democratic leader. President Polk nominated him minister to France, but the Senate did not confirm the nomination. He wrote a history of the second war between the United States and Great Britain. He died in Philadelphia, Jan. 14, 1862.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingersoll, Edward 1817-1893 (search)
Ingersoll, Edward 1817-1893 Author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 2, 1817; son of Charles Jared Ingersoll; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835. His publications include History and law of Habeas corpus and Grand juries; and Personal liberty and martial law. He was also the editor of Hale's Pleas of the Crown; Addison on contracts; and Saunders on uses and trusts. He died in Germantown, Pa., Feb. 19, 1893.