Note 444 — Chapter XXIX · THE WEED MACHINE CRIPPLED 1861
Reading edition
George T. Curtis, Life of James Buchanan, Vol. 2, p. 530.
A writer in the North American Review says, "the clamour for offices is already quite extraordinary, and these poor people undoubtedly belong to the horde which has pressed in here seeking places under the new Administration, which neither has nor can hope to have places enough to satisfy one-twentieth the number." November, 1879, p. 488.