Table of Content
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
