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Service, the unprecedented use of the veto power, Jackson'sĪssumption of powers which his opponents deemed unconstitutional,Īnd his personal hostility towards Clay, who had succeededĪdams in the leadership of the party, brought about, under Introduction of the modern “spoils system” into the Federal civil The president's attack upon the Bank, the The people, in a higher degree than ever before, the control of the TheĮlection of 1828 gave to Andrew Jackson the presidency, and to

In Congress, imperfectly organized and facing a powerful opposition,Īccomplished very little in the way of legislation. Adams set forth clearly the nationalizing,īroad-construction programme of the new party. The inaugural address and the messages to Congress of President To be beyond their powers - to overcome the disrupting influence

Rather than antagonize, the new democracy and - what proved Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, was to moderate and enlighten, In view of these events the mostĭifficult task of the Whigs, clearly discerned and heartily acceptedīy them, under the patriotic and conservative leadership of Jackson, and the growth of sectionalism over the slavery issue, Namely, the rise of the new radical democracy under Andrew Of 1824, when its organization began, to the repeal of the MissouriĬompromise in 1854, covers thirty years. The activity of the Whig party, reckoned from the election With the liberal movement in other lands. Order to allay sectional irritation and compose sectional differences Īnd cordial and yet prudent expression of sympathy National as opposed to partisan ends resort to compromise in Republicanism coalition with other parties in order to promote The legislative branch of the government and therefore hostile to Support of the Bank of the United States resistance to manyĪcts of President Jackson as encroachments by the executive on The direction and at the cost of the national government Tariffs comprehensive schemes of internal improvements under Which confer powers on the national government protective Which the Whigs used in order to realize their principles were theīroad construction of those provisions of the Federal Constitution

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Union fourth, while utilizing to the full the inheritance fromĪnd through Europe, to develop a distinctly American type ofĬivilization fifth, to propagate abroad by peaceful meansĪmerican ideas and institutions. National third, to maintain the republican character of the The integrity of the Union second, to make the Union thoroughly The ends for which the Whigs laboured were: first, to maintain The new nameĪnnounced not the birth but the maturity of the party, and theĭefinite establishment of its principles and general lines of policy. The high-handed measures of President Jackson. Such as the Anti-Masonic party ( q.v.), that had been alienated by Name Whig, which, through memorable associations both BritishĪnd American, served as a protest against executive encroachments,Īnd thus facilitated union with other parties and factions, Opposing the measures of President Jackson, it adopted in 1834 the

But after the party had becomeĬonsolidated, in the passionate campaign of 1828, and later in Party and began to be called by the accurately descriptive term Was not until late in the administration of John Quincy Adams,ġ825 to 1829, that the supporters of the president and HenryĬlay, the secretary of state, were first recognized as a distinct Partisans were known as Jackson, Crawford and Calhoun, or asĬlay and Adams Republicans.

Leader or group of leaders, kept on calling itself Republican.Įven during the sharply contested election of 1824 the rival This work of disintegrationĪnd rebuilding proceeded so slowly that for more than a decadeĪfter the Peace of Ghent each new party, disguised during theĮarly stages of organization as the personal following of a particular Such groups of ideas and interests, class and local, as required Was evolved, each member of which was the representative of Party began gradually to disintegrate and a new party system Which followed after 1815, the all-inclusive Republican During the period of rapid internal development On Europe, were at liberty to shape their public policy in People, freed for the first time from all trace of political dependence When, after Waterloo, Napoleon ceased toĭisturb the relations of the new world with the old, the American Left the Jeffersonian Republican (Democratic) party in Laws of 1798, and closed with the Hartford Convention of 1814-1815,

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The destruction of the Federalist party ( q.v.) throughĪ series of suicidal acts which began with the Alien and Sedition United States came to an end during the second war with Greatīritain. WHIG PARTY, in America, a political party prominent fromĪbout 1824 to 1854.

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