Kevin, His mention of Drayton was during and after the War of 1812 when he speaks of a General Blair who was so enormous in size he provoked challenges from lesser men. People were anxious at news of every victory over the British, but in the end many opposed nullificatiion of the treaty. " My remembrance of the big General closes with the statement that I saw him, William Drayton and ___ Mitchell, members of Congress, burnt in effigy by a mob in the Main Street of Columbia, in the days of Nullification, Blair being represented by a bale of hay with legs and feet attached. He occupied so much space in the public view that a lesser notice of him would have been unbecoming." Blanche