Cover: Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay, 1st Edition by Harry L. Watson

Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay

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First  Edition©1998  Harry L. Watson

ISBN:9781319239510

ISBN:9780312112134

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Using a selection of letters, essays, and speeches, Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay illustrates how the clashing perspectives of these two historical figures shaped and exemplified the major issues of national politics between the War of 1812 and the territorial crisis of 1850, the preservation of the union, federal commitments to banking, tariffs, internal improvements, and the egalitarian tone of national political culture.

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Table of Contents

  Foreword
  Preface
  List of Illustrations
    
PART I. INTRODUCTION: OLD HICKORY, PRINCE HAL, AND THE WORLD OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC
    
    Social Change and the Market Revolution
    Politics in the Early Republic
    Jackson, Clay, and the Party System
    The Making of a Tennessee Gentleman
    The Gentleman Becomes a Hero
    The War Hawk from Kentucky
    Postwar Problems: Banking Panic and Missouri Crisis
    Round One: 1824
    Round Two: 1828
    The Hero Becomes a President
    Four More Years
    Aftermath
    
PART II. THE DOCUMENTS
    
    1. Andrew Jackson, Division Orders to the Tennessee Militia, March 7, 1812
    2. "The Hunters of Kentucky," Jacksonian Campaign Song, 1822
    3. Scaevola [Henry Clay], "To the Electors of Fayette Country," April 16, 1798
    4. Henry Clay, On the Proposed Repeal of the Non-Intercourse Act, February 22, 1810
    5. Henry Clay, On the Seminole War, January 20, 1819
    6. Henry Clay, On the Tariff, March 30-31, 1824
    7. Edward Patchell, Letter to Andrew Jackson, August 7, 1824
    8. Andrew Jackson, Letter to L. H. Coleman, April 26, 1824
    9. The First Volley: Letter on the "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824
       Henry Clay to Francis T. Brooke, January 28, 1825
       Andrew Jackson to Samuel Swartwout, February 22, 1825
    10. Washington Gazette, "Mr. Clay and His Conscience," February 11, 1825
    11. Margaret Smith, Letter to Mrs. Kirkpatrick, March 11, 1829
    12. Andrew Jackson, Excerpt on Indian Removal from the First Annual Message, December 8, 1829
    13. Theodore Frelinghuysen, On Indian Removal, April 9, 1830
    14. Andew Jackson, Veto of the Maysville Road, 1830
    15. Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto, July 10, 1832
    16. Henry Clay, On the American System, February 2, 3, and 6, 1832
    17. Andrew Jackson, Nullification Proclamation, December 10, 1832
    18. Henry Clay, On the Compromise Tariff, February 12, 1833
    19. Henry Clay, On the Removal of the Deposits, December 26, 1833
    20. Andrew Jackson, Protest against Censure Resolutions, April 15, 1834
    21. Andrew Jackson, Letter to Tilghman A. Howard, August 20, 1833
    22. Andrew Jackson, Letter to Joseph Conn Guild, April 24, 1835
    23. Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, 1837
    24. Whig Campaign Platform of 1844
    25. Henry Clay, Resolutions and Speech on the Proposed Compromise of 1850, January 29 and February 5 and 6, 1850
    
APPENDICES
    
    An Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay Chronology
    Selected Bibliography
    
  Index

Harry L. Watson

Harry L. Watson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of its Center for the Study of the American South. He edits Southern Cultures, the Center’s quarterly journal.  He has also published three scholarly books, numerous articles, and has edited two volumes of essays.  His 1983 An Independent People: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1750-1820 was corecipient of the AHAs James Harvey Robinson Award. Watsons Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (1990), is considered the most cogent synthesis of Jacksonian politics in a generation of scholarship.  His most recent book is Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America, in the Bedford Series in History and Culture. Watson has been a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, he lectures widely in the United States and abroad, and he is currently president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.