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THEY are the descendants of Jacksonian America. Once they were the heroes of the American democratic my thology. Walt Whitman catalogued them. Carl Sandburg cel ebrated them. "The people will live on," he wrote - mean ing the workers, the "common man" in a slightly nostalgic sense, the people nowadays referred to as the lower middle class. The traditional American values and ambitions sus tained them. Today, those virtues seem to many to be mocked and perverted. The white lower middle class feels dan gerously ignored, as outdated as Norman Rockwell's folksy icons. With justice, Richard Nixon calls them...
...that time also took to editorializing about the incident. The Boston Courier, which was the paper read by those of the Federalist or Whig disposition, stated its whole-hearted agreement with President Quincy and the Gov- ernment of the University. On the other hand, the Boston Transcript, a Jacksonian paper edited by several recent graduates, put their sympathies with the students. "We have just heard of a new act of the wise men who guide the councils of our Alma Mater. . . ," the Transcript stated, "which threatens to ruin that ancient Institution...
...John Quincy Adams and 13% each for House Speaker Henry Clay and Georgia's William H. Crawford. In the Electoral College, Jackson's three opponents denied him a majority. In the House, Clay threw his support to Adams, who thus became President. Though Clay hotly denied Jacksonian charges that he had made a deal, he was soon appointed Secretary of State by Adams. Tempers ran so high that Clay fought a duel with John Randolph, who had publicly vilified the Clay-Adams alliance as "the combination of the Puritan and the blackleg...
...political terms, the most significant fact about Wisconsin is its ethnic structure and background. Unlike most other Western states, Wisconsin was settled by immigrants who came directly from continental Europe. Despite some emigration from New England in the Jacksonian era, most of the first settlers were refugees of the political upheavals of Europe in 1948 and thereafter. Wisconsin's population grew from...
...challenge to the Senate. He tried to wrest patronage away from the Senate, where it had been a somewhat clubby affair, and largely succeeded in putting it under party control. More important, he sought to establish the concept of the President as the representative of the whole nation. The Jacksonian concept did not immediately prevail. During the Civil War, the Senate was subservient to Lincoln. But with war's end and Lincoln's death, it rapidly reasserted itself and achieved its pinnacle of power if not prestige. Its leaders were party bosses and spoilsmen; in the burgeoning economy...