“The President was much inflamed, got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself.…37 Defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the government which was not done on the purest motives.… That by God he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation. That he had rather be on his farm than to be made emperor of the world and yet that they were charging him with wanting to be a king.” The meeting was effectively over.
