Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . d CauLrOn, in his Boston paper, The Liberator,demanded the immediate abolition of slavery. Anti-slaverysocieties were organized in different parts of the country and themembers became known as abolitionists. The South was incensed by the agi-tation, which reached its culmination in the great Civil War of 1861-65. FRANCE AND PORTUGAL FORCED TO TERMS. President Jackson impressed his personality upon everything with wliiclihe ca
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . d CauLrOn, in his Boston paper, The Liberator,demanded the immediate abolition of slavery. Anti-slaverysocieties were organized in different parts of the country and themembers became known as abolitionists. The South was incensed by the agi-tation, which reached its culmination in the great Civil War of 1861-65. FRANCE AND PORTUGAL FORCED TO TERMS. President Jackson impressed his personality upon everything with wliiclihe came in contact. We had been pressing a suit against France for the in-juries she inflicted upon our commerce during the flurrj- of 1798, but thatcountry was so laggard in paying that the President recommended to Congressthat enough French vessels should be captured to pay the bill. France flaredup and tlireatened war unless Jackson apologized. A dozen wars would nothave moved him to recall his words. England, however, mediated, and France. JOHN a CALHOUN. 223 paid the debt. Portugal took the liiiit and lost no time in settling a similaraccount with us. President Jackson, imitating Washington, issued a farewell address to hiscountrymen. It Avas Avell written and jjatriotic; but his last official act, whichw!is characteristic of him, displeased many of his friends. The speculation iawestern lands had assumed such proportions that the treasury department, inJuly, 183G, sent out a circular ordering the collectors of the public revenues toreceive only gold and silver in payment. Tills circular caused so nuich con-fusion and trouble that, at the beginning of 1837, Congress modified it so that itwould have given great relief. Jack- pson held the bill in his jwssession until the adjournment of Congress,and thus prevented its becoming aJaw. Tlie stormy years of Jacksonspresidency brought into prominencethree of the greatest of , at different times, were mem-bers of the Unite
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