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

J.P. Peaslee, 1835 - 316 pages

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DEDICATION TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES 1 Dangers to popular government	1

Preventive in the ConstitutionHow destroyed	2

Political revolution what	3

Country actually engaged in revolutionmay be arrested	4

Nation divided into two classesspeculative and practicaldescrip tion of them	5

but must depend on the latter	6

Appeal to the practical class	7

Notice of public men CHAPTER I	8

Presidents reasons for changes in office	155

Conditions on which members of Congress are to be appointedappli cants for change encouraged	156

True sense of rotation in office	157

Present necessity for manifestation of the Presidents views in rela tion to office	158

General Jacksons Letter to the Legislature of Tennessee disapprov ing the appointment of members of Congress to office	159

Many appointments made by the General from Congress	160

Number of officers and dependents upon the President in the United States	161

Case of illustration from Boston	162

All free States obnoxious to parties of what kind	9

Parties essential to their safetyWhen dangerous	10

Reasons for this essence of party	11

United States fortunate in having parties of a general character	12

Character and result of party action	13

Momentary cessation of parties in the United States	14

Instrumentality of Mr Monroe in producing this	15

The peace deceptiveNew combinations	16

Candidates for the Presidency easily selected by the old partieswhy Course of office	17

Calm before the storm	18

Rotation in officewhat	19

The true principles in relation to office	20

Such principles acceptable to the mass of the people	21

Candidates for office under the ancient parties	22

Change in the character of partiesseveral personal parties formed denunciation of caucuswherefore Candidates for the Presiden cy in 1824	23

General Andrew Jackson selected as a candidate for the Presidency	24

State of the electoral vote General Jackson had not a plurality of the peoples votes	25

Election devolves on the House of Representatives Duties of the House	26

State of parties in the House	27

Mr Clay and his friends determine the election in favour of Mr Adams	28

Claims of Mr Adams	29

Remarks on Mr Clays course	30

State of the vote in the House	31

Effect of the Congressional election	32

Principles of Mr Adams administration like those of his predeces sors	33

Exhibited in his inaugural address	34

Mr Adams views particularly liable to misconstruction	35

Mr Adams wishes in relation to party	36

Principles on which he formed his cabinetand made appointments to office	37

Injurious effect of these principles upon his popularity	38

His policy exclusively American	39

Favourite objects of his policy	40

Inducements to the Panama Mission	41

Results anticipated by the administration from the convention	42

Views of previous administrations on the interests involved therein	43

Very important results of Mr Monroes declaration	44

Character of the Panama Convention	45

Deference of Mr Adams for the coordinate departments of the Gov ernment in preparing the Panama Mission	46

The Mission approved by Congress	47

Opposition against	48

Character of the opposition	49

Difference of opinion on the American System no ground for parties relative to the administration	50

Dangerous nature of the workings of party on the American Sys tem	51

Important that the system should be understood by the country	52

Power to lay taxes for other purposes than revenue long exercised	53

Interests involved in this question	54

The American System becomes apparently the settled policy of the countryIts scope	55

Active opposition excited against	56

Source of the power to enact a protective tariff	57

Principles on which it is opposed	58

Modified admission of the power	59

Congress may lay taxes for the regulation of commerce but not for the protection of manufactures	60

Various views as to the extent of the admitted power of taxation	61

Remarks on the opinion that the power of taxation is limited by the enumerated powers granted to Congress	62

The right to lay taxes for other purposes than revenue results from every construction of the taxing power	63

Of the expediency of exercising this power	64

Violent opposition proposed to	65

Of the right of the General Government to appropriate its funds	66

internal improvements 67 Consequences of a construction denying this right	67

Construction supporting renders the Constitution consistent	68

Of the extent of this right 70 The powers to raise and appropriate monies for the public welfare are inseparable	70

Such dependence the effect of design	71

Views which support this construction	72

What is the limitation to the exercise of this power	73

The practice of the Government what	74

The power to make certain internal improvements depends on the enumerated powers	75

No substantive difference between the principles of the administra tion and its opponents	79

Who were the malcontents?	80

The question answered	81

Inducements of certain southern sections to oppose Mr Adams ad ministration His opponents unite in the cry of corruption	82

Removal of the publishers of the laws inquired into	83

Heats produced by this inquiry	84

Other subjects introduced for party action	85

History of the pretence of retrenchment	86

Injustice to the administration of Mr AdamsSummary	87

Progress in the formation of a new party	88

A design to control the public press avowed by Mr Van Buren	89

Position of Mr Van Buren in 1827	91

Proofs of the combination	92

Components of the combination	93

Reciprocal concessions of the northern and southern partisans Mr Van Burens offering	94

Object of Mr Van Burens visit to the South	95

Motive of the combination illustrated by the conduct of Mr Ran dolph	96

General Jackson selected by the combination	97

Claim of irresponsibility for General Jackson	98

Reasons for denying this	99

Exalted intellectual power ascribed to the General by an English panegyrist	100

Supernatural intelligence attributed to him by an Americandepen dant	101

Exaggerated praise begets inquiry	102

Birth and education of General Jackson	103

Settles at Nashvillesuccess thereenters into public life	104

Proves incompetent to the civil offices to which he was appointed	105

His martial tastes	106

Enters the service of the United Statesdisobeys orders	107

He is engaged in the Creek	108

The Generals conduct in the campaign	109

The subject of great eulogium	110

Award of the historic muse	111

The General receives a commission in the regular army	112

First Florida campaign	113

Remarks on the campaign of New Orleans	114

Proclamation of martial	115

Examination of the reasons alleged therefor	116

Case of Mr Louaillier and others	117

The Generals conduct rebuked by the administration	118

Public opinion of Jacksons character	119

Causes of the Seminole	120

General Jackson disobeys orders in raising troops	121

Enormities of the Seminole campaign	122

Charges against the General	123

How disposed	124

The Generals ignorance and disregard of the laws again exemplified	125

The Florida campaign is not the boast of the General or his flatterers His conduct reprobated by Congress	126

General Jackson Governor of Florida His tyrannical conduct	127

Froceedings against the Spanish exgovernor	128

Comment thereon	129

Nature of the ordinances of General Jackson in Florida	130

Effects of these ordinances upon the inhabitants	131

Disability of General Jackson for civil employment as deduced from his life	132

General Jackson elected to the Senate in 1824 resigns in 1825	134

How has the General become popular?	135

Admirably qualified as the agent of party	136

General Jackson chosen President State of the electoral vote	137

138 Causes of his election	138

Doubts of his political principles	139

Letter to Mr Monroe principles therein supported	140

The General becomes the slave of party	141

Violent emotions of party cupidity	142

Avowal of venality by the party presses	143

Corruption of the press	144

Proscription becomes the policy of the administration	145

Presidential policy as exposed in the inaugural speech	146

New source of power opened for the President	147

The nature of this power further exhibited	148

Further illustration	149

What abuses required reform	150

Rapidity and extent of reform	151

New tenure of office	152

Abuse of the power of appointmentbribery change of the constitu tion plan of a great national party	153

Influence of the appointing power extended and systematized	154

Case from Ohio	163

Case in the War Department	164

Case of proposed bargain between applicants	165

Case of reward for indecent violence	166

Reprobation of the Presidents course by an administration editor	167

Unconstitutional exercise of the appointing power	168

Theory of Mr Jefferson in his letter to Mr Gerry	169

Practice of Mr JeffersonCase of Col Allen McLane	170

Gross contrast between the practice and theory of the Jackson ad ministration	171

Division of political powers in free governments	172

How made in American Constitutions generally	173

Counter checks in the Constitution of the United States	174

Every department derives its powers from the Constitution	175

The Governments of the United States are limited Governments	176

Singular dread of legislative encroachment Slender provision against the Executive	177

Confidence of the first Congress in Presidential discretion	178

Analogy between the Executive power in England and America In road on the legislative power in the former	179

Federal Convention did not overlook the danger from Executive power	180

Provision against abuse of Treasury influence	181

Precautions against Executive power hitherto vain	182

but it is desira ble that the power to remove should not be so vested	183

Remedy for evils arising under the express provision and under the construction of the Constitution	184

Various opinions relative to the power to remove from office	185

Reasons for supposing it vested in the President alone	186

Reply to these reasons	187

Reasons for supposing the power in the President and Senate	188

Reasons against such supposition	189

Reasons for supposing the power subject to legislation	190

Arguments against	191

No experience upon this question when first decided in Congress	192

Appointing and removing power in Pennsylvania	193

Reasons for the decision of the question	194

Prophetic views of the opponents of the power	195

Limited views of the power by its friends	196

Extraordinary nature of the decision on this subject	197

The evils of this power to be remedied by the people	198

Settled state of the foreign policy of the United States	199

Unsettled condition of our domestic polity	200

Presidents message 1829 New propositions	201

Change of the constitutional mode of electing President	202

Rotation in office	203

Protection of domestic manufactures	204

Internal Improvement prostrated	205

Veto of the President on the Maysville road bill	206

Power acquired to the President thereby	207

Oblation to southern policy	208

Inconsistent use of the veto	209

Character of the Maysville message by Mr Clay	210

Narrow rule of expediency adopted by the administration	212

Other causes assigned by the President for his veto	214

Results of the Presidents policy	215

Presidents power in legislation considered	216

Character of the veto	217

Views of the veto power in the Convention	218

Abuse of the veto power by President Jackson	219

True objects of the veto power	220

Exercise of this power by the several Presidents of the United States	221

Effect of the power when Congress is unbiassed by the President	222

Policy of the nation relative to Indian tribes	223

Prospects of the Cherokees and other southern Indians	224

Their relations with the State of Georgia	225

Relations with the United States Rights of the latter	226

General principles in relation to the intercourse between the Indians and the whites	227

Concurrence of Georgia in these principles	228

Relations by compact between United States and Cherokees	229

United States to extinguish the Indian title in Georgia	230

Cherokees demonstrate a determination to retain their lands Geor gia seizes and divides them Cherokees appeal to the United States	231

The Jackson administration refuse to interfere	232

Treaties and laws relating to the Indians disregarded	233

The case admitted to be one of great difficulty	234

Measures of the administration in relation to	235

How viewed by the Indians	236

The Cherokees will not quit their homes	237

President prematurely broaches the recharter of the Bank of the United States	238

True cause of the untimely suggestion Government Bank proposed	239

Nature of a Government Bank	240

Would have boundless and baleful patronage	241

Views of this Bank by Committee of Ways and Means	242

Committee qualify their reproof in tenderness to the President	243

True light in which the report exhibits the President	244

Sense of the nation against the views of the administration	245

House of Representatives not yet overcome by executive influence	246

Its intractableness ascribed to President making	247

Mr Calhouns views in supporting General Jackson	248

Magical opposition to his wishes	249

Dependence of presidential aspirants upon General Jackson	250

Search after means to make a quarrel between the President and Vice President	251

Success of the search	252

Mr Calhoun made auxiliary to his own injury	253

Preparation of the explosion	254

The development of presidential hostility	255

The exposè Proclamation of his innocence by Mr Van Buren	256

What should be the judgment upon the evidence?	257

True view of Mr Calhouns conduct in the Seminole business	258

Consequences of the quarrel	260

The Jackson administration begotten in the likeness of its father	261

The Cabinet	262

Its centrifugal force	263

Mr Van Burens resignation His reasons	264

Mr Eatons resignation and his reasons	265

Expulsion of Messrs Ingham Branch and Berrien	266

True reasons for the dissolution of the Cabinet	267

Private griefs and female influence	268

The President seeks to extend his influence into the Washington saloons	269

Uses of adversityto discarded statesmen	270

Reason for retaining Mr Barry	271

New Cabinet	272

Mr Van Buren stoops to conquer	273

He announces himself as a candidate for the Presidency	274

Is nominated Minister to the Court of St James	275

Ordeal of the Senate Charges of anticivism	276

Foreign commercial policy of the United States	277

Commercial policy of Great Britain European and colonial	278

Contest between America and Great Britain for the colonial carrying trade	279

West India trade under Mr Adams administration	280

State of the trade with the West Indies	281

Use made of this question in the presidential canvass	282

Instructions of Mr Van Buren The attainment of the trade a party measure	283

Unpatriotic character of the instructions	284

Previous and contradictory views of Mr Van Buren	285

Act of Congress 1830 relative to the colonial trade	286

That act annulled by the negotiation	287

Nature of arrangement with Great Britain	288

Consequences of the arrangement	289

Avowal of the British	290

Mr Van Burens disposition to dispense with the laws	291

Humiliation of the country	292

American produce transported through Canada	293

Comments on Mr Van Burens negotiation	294

Rejection of Mr Van Buren Causes assigned	295

The President assumes Mr Van Burens sins	296

Oppostion to the Tariff in the South	297

Opposition invigorated by the approaching extinction of the publie debt	298

Difference of opinion as to the manner of reducing the debt	299

Conventions held by the respective parties	300

Sketch of the views of the several parties proposed	301

Manufacturing system originated from the South	302

The allegation of inequality unfoundedProsperity of the country	308

The import duty is not in effect an export duty	314

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Title	The Political Mirror; Or, Review of Jacksonism ...
Publisher	J.P. Peaslee, 1835
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	5 Dec 2006
Length	316 pages

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