cook. He was a respectable man, who
has for many years been the fashionable cook in New York, and his loss
will be felt on all occasions of large dinner and evening parties,
unless it should be found that some suitable shoulders should be ready
to receive the mantle of this distinguished _cuisinier_." When Hone was
not entertaining at his own home or being entertained at somebody
else's, he was trying out the fare at some one of the public hostelries.
Date of December 18, 1830, there is reference to a familiar name.
"Moore, Giraud, and I went yesterday to dine at Delmonico's, a French
_restaurateur_, in William Street, which I had heard was on the Parisian
plan, and very good. We satisfied our curiosity, but not our appetites."

We are prone to regard the Civil War as an affair of the sixties. Hone
was one of those who perceived the threat of it thirty years before.
Always a bitter political opponent of Jackson, there was one occasion
when he was loud in his applause. The South Carolina Convention had
passed a number of resolutions regarded by Hone as rank treason, and the
beginning of rebellion. The President had dealt with the matter in a
proclamation, of which the diarist wrote December 12, 1832: "Very much
to the surprise of some, and to the satisfaction of all our citizens, we
have a long proclamation of President Jackson, which was published in
Washington on the 12th. inst., and is in all our papers this day. It is
a document addressed to the nullifiers of South Carolina, occasioned by
the late treasonable proceedings of their convention. The whole subject
is discussed in a spirit of conciliation, but with firmness and
decision, and a determination to put down the wicked attempt to resist
the laws. On the constitutionality of the laws which the nullifiers
object to, and their right to recede from the Union, this able State
paper is full and conclusive. The language of the President is that of a
father addressing his wayward children, but determined to punish with
the utmost severity the first open act of insubordination. As a
composition it is splendid, and will take its place in the archives of
our country, and will dwell in the memories of our citizens alongside of
the farewell address of the 'Father of his Country.' It is not known
which of the members of the cabinet is entitled to the honour of being
the author; it is attributed to Mr. Livingston, the Secretary of State,
and to Governor Cass, the Secretary of W