The Political Mirror; Or, Review of Jacksonism ...

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J.P. Peaslee, 1835 - 316 من الصفحات

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All free States obnoxious to parties of what kind
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Parties essential to their safetyWhen dangerous
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Reasons for this essence of party
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United States fortunate in having parties of a general character
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Character and result of party action
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Momentary cessation of parties in the United States
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Instrumentality of Mr Monroe in producing this
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The peace deceptiveNew combinations
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Candidates for the Presidency easily selected by the old partieswhy Course of office
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Calm before the storm
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Rotation in officewhat
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The true principles in relation to office
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Such principles acceptable to the mass of the people
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Candidates for office under the ancient parties
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Change in the character of partiesseveral personal parties formed denunciation of caucuswherefore Candidates for the Presiden cy in 1824
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General Andrew Jackson selected as a candidate for the Presidency
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State of the electoral vote General Jackson had not a plurality of the peoples votes
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Election devolves on the House of Representatives Duties of the House
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State of parties in the House
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Adams
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Claims of Mr Adams
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Remarks on Mr Clays course
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State of the vote in the House
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Effect of the Congressional election
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Principles of Mr Adams administration like those of his predeces sors
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Exhibited in his inaugural address
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Mr Adams views particularly liable to misconstruction
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Mr Adams wishes in relation to party
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Principles on which he formed his cabinetand made appointments to office
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Injurious effect of these principles upon his popularity
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His policy exclusively American
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Favourite objects of his policy
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Inducements to the Panama Mission
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Results anticipated by the administration from the convention
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Views of previous administrations on the interests involved therein
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Very important results of Mr Monroes declaration
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Character of the Panama Convention
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Deference of Mr Adams for the coordinate departments of the Gov ernment in preparing the Panama Mission
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The Mission approved by Congress
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Opposition against
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Character of the opposition
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Difference of opinion on the American System no ground for parties relative to the administration
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Dangerous nature of the workings of party on the American Sys tem
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Important that the system should be understood by the country
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Power to lay taxes for other purposes than revenue long exercised
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Interests involved in this question
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The American System becomes apparently the settled policy of the countryIts scope
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Active opposition excited against
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Source of the power to enact a protective tariff
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Principles on which it is opposed
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Modified admission of the power
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Congress may lay taxes for the regulation of commerce but not for the protection of manufactures
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Various views as to the extent of the admitted power of taxation
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Remarks on the opinion that the power of taxation is limited by the enumerated powers granted to Congress
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The right to lay taxes for other purposes than revenue results from every construction of the taxing power
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Of the expediency of exercising this power
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Violent opposition proposed to
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Of the right of the General Government to appropriate its funds
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internal improvements 67 Consequences of a construction denying this right
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Construction supporting renders the Constitution consistent
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Of the extent of this right 70 The powers to raise and appropriate monies for the public welfare are inseparable
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Such dependence the effect of design
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Views which support this construction
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What is the limitation to the exercise of this power
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The practice of the Government what
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The power to make certain internal improvements depends on the enumerated powers
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No substantive difference between the principles of the administra tion and its opponents
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Who were the malcontents?
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The question answered
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Inducements of certain southern sections to oppose Mr Adams ad ministration His opponents unite in the cry of corruption
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Removal of the publishers of the laws inquired into
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Heats produced by this inquiry
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Other subjects introduced for party action
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History of the pretence of retrenchment
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Injustice to the administration of Mr AdamsSummary
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Progress in the formation of a new party
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A design to control the public press avowed by Mr Van Buren
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Position of Mr Van Buren in 1827
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Proofs of the combination
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Components of the combination
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Reciprocal concessions of the northern and southern partisans Mr Van Burens offering
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Object of Mr Van Burens visit to the South
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Motive of the combination illustrated by the conduct of Mr Ran dolph
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General Jackson selected by the combination
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Claim of irresponsibility for General Jackson
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Reasons for denying this
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Exalted intellectual power ascribed to the General by an English panegyrist
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Supernatural intelligence attributed to him by an Americandepen dant
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Exaggerated praise begets inquiry
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Birth and education of General Jackson
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Settles at Nashvillesuccess thereenters into public life
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Proves incompetent to the civil offices to which he was appointed
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His martial tastes
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Enters the service of the United Statesdisobeys orders
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He is engaged in the Creek
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The Generals conduct in the campaign
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The subject of great eulogium
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Award of the historic muse
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The General receives a commission in the regular army
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First Florida campaign
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Remarks on the campaign of New Orleans
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Proclamation of martial
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Examination of the reasons alleged therefor
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Case of Mr Louaillier and others
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The Generals conduct rebuked by the administration
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Public opinion of Jacksons character
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Causes of the Seminole
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General Jackson disobeys orders in raising troops
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Enormities of the Seminole campaign
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Charges against the General
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How disposed
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The Generals ignorance and disregard of the laws again exemplified
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The Florida campaign is not the boast of the General or his flatterers His conduct reprobated by Congress
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General Jackson Governor of Florida His tyrannical conduct
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Froceedings against the Spanish exgovernor
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Comment thereon
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Nature of the ordinances of General Jackson in Florida
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Effects of these ordinances upon the inhabitants
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Disability of General Jackson for civil employment as deduced from his life
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General Jackson elected to the Senate in 1824 resigns in 1825
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How has the General become popular?
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Admirably qualified as the agent of party
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General Jackson chosen President State of the electoral vote
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Causes of his election
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Doubts of his political principles
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Letter to Mr Monroe principles therein supported
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The General becomes the slave of party
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Violent emotions of party cupidity
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Avowal of venality by the party presses
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Corruption of the press
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Proscription becomes the policy of the administration
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Presidential policy as exposed in the inaugural speech
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New source of power opened for the President
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The nature of this power further exhibited
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Further illustration
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What abuses required reform
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Rapidity and extent of reform
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New tenure of office
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Abuse of the power of appointmentbribery change of the constitu tion plan of a great national party
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Case of illustration from Boston
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Case from Ohio
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Case in the War Department
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Case of proposed bargain between applicants
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Case of reward for indecent violence
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Reprobation of the Presidents course by an administration editor
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Unconstitutional exercise of the appointing power
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Theory of Mr Jefferson in his letter to Mr Gerry
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Practice of Mr JeffersonCase of Col Allen McLane
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Gross contrast between the practice and theory of the Jackson ad ministration
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Division of political powers in free governments
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How made in American Constitutions generally
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Counter checks in the Constitution of the United States
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Every department derives its powers from the Constitution
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The Governments of the United States are limited Governments
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Singular dread of legislative encroachment Slender provision against the Executive
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Confidence of the first Congress in Presidential discretion
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Analogy between the Executive power in England and America In road on the legislative power in the former
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Federal Convention did not overlook the danger from Executive power
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Provision against abuse of Treasury influence
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Precautions against Executive power hitherto vain
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but it is desira ble that the power to remove should not be so vested
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Remedy for evils arising under the express provision and under the construction of the Constitution
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Various opinions relative to the power to remove from office
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Reasons for supposing it vested in the President alone
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Reply to these reasons
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Reasons for supposing the power in the President and Senate
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Reasons against such supposition
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Reasons for supposing the power subject to legislation
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Arguments against
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No experience upon this question when first decided in Congress
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Appointing and removing power in Pennsylvania
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Reasons for the decision of the question
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Prophetic views of the opponents of the power
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Limited views of the power by its friends
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Extraordinary nature of the decision on this subject
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The evils of this power to be remedied by the people
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Settled state of the foreign policy of the United States
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Unsettled condition of our domestic polity
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Presidents message 1829 New propositions
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Change of the constitutional mode of electing President
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Rotation in office
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Protection of domestic manufactures
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Internal Improvement prostrated
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Veto of the President on the Maysville road bill
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Power acquired to the President thereby
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Oblation to southern policy
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Inconsistent use of the veto
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Character of the Maysville message by Mr Clay
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Narrow rule of expediency adopted by the administration
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Other causes assigned by the President for his veto
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Results of the Presidents policy
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Presidents power in legislation considered
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Character of the veto
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Views of the veto power in the Convention
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Abuse of the veto power by President Jackson
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True objects of the veto power
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Exercise of this power by the several Presidents of the United States
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Effect of the power when Congress is unbiassed by the President
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Policy of the nation relative to Indian tribes
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Prospects of the Cherokees and other southern Indians
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Their relations with the State of Georgia
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Relations with the United States Rights of the latter
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General principles in relation to the intercourse between the Indians and the whites
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Concurrence of Georgia in these principles
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Relations by compact between United States and Cherokees
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United States to extinguish the Indian title in Georgia
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Cherokees demonstrate a determination to retain their lands Geor gia seizes and divides them Cherokees appeal to the United States
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The Jackson administration refuse to interfere
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Treaties and laws relating to the Indians disregarded
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The case admitted to be one of great difficulty
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Measures of the administration in relation to
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How viewed by the Indians
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The Cherokees will not quit their homes
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President prematurely broaches the recharter of the Bank of the United States
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True cause of the untimely suggestion Government Bank proposed
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Nature of a Government Bank
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Would have boundless and baleful patronage
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Views of this Bank by Committee of Ways and Means
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Committee qualify their reproof in tenderness to the President
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True light in which the report exhibits the President
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Sense of the nation against the views of the administration
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House of Representatives not yet overcome by executive influence
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Its intractableness ascribed to President making
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Mr Calhouns views in supporting General Jackson
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Magical opposition to his wishes
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Dependence of presidential aspirants upon General Jackson
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Search after means to make a quarrel between the President and Vice President
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Success of the search
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Mr Calhoun made auxiliary to his own injury
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Preparation of the explosion
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The development of presidential hostility
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The exposè Proclamation of his innocence by Mr Van Buren
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What should be the judgment upon the evidence?
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True view of Mr Calhouns conduct in the Seminole business
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Consequences of the quarrel
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The Jackson administration begotten in the likeness of its father
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The Cabinet
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Its centrifugal force
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Mr Van Burens resignation His reasons
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Mr Eatons resignation and his reasons
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Expulsion of Messrs Ingham Branch and Berrien
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True reasons for the dissolution of the Cabinet
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Private griefs and female influence
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The President seeks to extend his influence into the Washington saloons
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Uses of adversityto discarded statesmen
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Reason for retaining Mr Barry
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New Cabinet
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Mr Van Buren stoops to conquer
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He announces himself as a candidate for the Presidency
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Is nominated Minister to the Court of St James
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Ordeal of the Senate Charges of anticivism
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Foreign commercial policy of the United States
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Commercial policy of Great Britain European and colonial
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Contest between America and Great Britain for the colonial carrying trade
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West India trade under Mr Adams administration
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State of the trade with the West Indies
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Use made of this question in the presidential canvass
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Instructions of Mr Van Buren The attainment of the trade a party measure
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Unpatriotic character of the instructions
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Previous and contradictory views of Mr Van Buren
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Act of Congress 1830 relative to the colonial trade
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That act annulled by the negotiation
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Nature of arrangement with Great Britain
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Consequences of the arrangement
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Avowal of the British
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Mr Van Burens disposition to dispense with the laws
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Humiliation of the country
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American produce transported through Canada
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Comments on Mr Van Burens negotiation
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Rejection of Mr Van Buren Causes assigned
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The President assumes Mr Van Burens sins
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CHAPTER XII
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Difference of opinion as to the manner of reducing the debt
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Conventions held by the respective parties
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Sketch of the views of the several parties proposed
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Manufacturing system originated from the South
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The allegation of inequality unfoundedProsperity of the country
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The import duty is not in effect an export duty
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الصفحة 19 - With the movements in this hemisphere, we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes w^hich must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the Allied Powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
الصفحة 118 - Both the constitutionality and the expediency of the law creating this bank are well questioned by a large portion of our fellow citizens; and it must be admitted by all that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency.
الصفحة 195 - I adjure you, as you honor their memory, as you love the cause of freedom, to which they dedicated their lives, as you prize the peace of your country, the lives of its best citizens, and your own fair fame, to retrace your steps. Snatch from the archives...
الصفحة 206 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation...
الصفحة 300 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
الصفحة 77 - The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance; and I cannot but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in office than is generally to be gained by their experience.
الصفحة 237 - The charter of the Bank of the United States expires in 1836, and its stockholders will most probably apply for a renewal of their privileges. In order to avoid the evils resulting from precipitancy in a measure involving such important principles, and such deep pecuniary interests, I feel that I cannot, in justice to the parties interested, too soon present it to the deliberate consideration of the Legislature and the People.
الصفحة 20 - Governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgement of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security.
الصفحة 228 - Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank as being precluded in my judgment by repeated recognitions under varied circumstances of the validity of such an institution in acts of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, accompanied by indications, in different modes, of a concurrence of the general will of the nation...
الصفحة 292 - State, that the Bank of the United States ought not to be rechartered.

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