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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

by E. Benjamin Andrews.

VOLUME III.

NEW YORK.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

1896.

CONTENTS.

PERIOD II

WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS TILL THE DOMINANCE OF THE SLAVERY CONTROVERSY.

1814--1840

CHAPTER I. THE WHIG PARTY AND ITS MISSION.

The Word "Whig."

Republican Prestige.

Schism.

Adams's Election.

Five Doctrines of Whiggism.

I. Broad Construction of the Const.i.tution.

II. The Bank.

Death of Old and Birth of New.

Opposition by Jackson.

III. The Tariff of 1816.

Its Object.

IV. Land.

Whig versus Democratic Policy.

V. Internal Improvements Rivers and Harbors.

Need of Better Inland Communication.

Contention between the Parties.

Whig Characteristics.

Adams.

Webster.

His Political Att.i.tude.

Clay.

His Power, as an Orator.

His Duel with Randolph.

His Wit.

His Influence.

CHAPTER II. FLORIDA AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

Florida's Disputed Boundary.

West Florida Occupied.

Jackson Seizes East Florida.

Puts to Death Ambrister and Arbuthnot.

His Excuse.

Defended by Adams.

Sale of Florida.

Revolt of Spanish America.

Monroe's Declaration.

Its Origin.

CHAPTER III. THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE.

Missouri Wishes Statehood.

Early History of Slavery.

Hostility to it.

First Abolitionist Societies.

Ordinance of 1787.

Slavery in the North.

In the South.

Pleas for its Existence.

Missouri Compromise.

Pro-slavery Arguments.

The Policy Men.

Anti-slavery Opinions.

Difficulties of the Case.

The Anti-slavery Side Ignores these.

CHAPTER IV. THE GREAT NULLIFICATION.

Rise of Tariff Rates after 1816.

Relations of Parties and Sections to the Tariff.

Minimum Principle.

Tariff of Abominations Adopted.

Harmful to the South.

Nullification Project.

Calhoun's Life and Pet Political Theory.

South Carolina Recedes.

Compromise Tariff.

State Rights and Central Government.

Webster's Plea.

CHAPTER V. MINOR PUBLIC QUESTIONS OF JACKSON'S "REIGN."

Jackson's Life.

Mistaken Ideas.

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