. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. estly supported Adams. Jackson wasthe type and representative of that Demos whose prophet Jefferson hadbeen from his youth up; but the founder and apostle of Democracyseems to have been frightened at the specter he had raised in the personof the western warrior. By vote of the House of Representatives, Adams became as a Republican—or Democrat, as the members of that partybegan about that time to be called—it was the irony of fate that the in-choate opposition to that party crystallized around the measures of hisadmini
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. estly supported Adams. Jackson wasthe type and representative of that Demos whose prophet Jefferson hadbeen from his youth up; but the founder and apostle of Democracyseems to have been frightened at the specter he had raised in the personof the western warrior. By vote of the House of Representatives, Adams became as a Republican—or Democrat, as the members of that partybegan about that time to be called—it was the irony of fate that the in-choate opposition to that party crystallized around the measures of hisadministration and made their advocacy the basis of a new party hostile 104 OUR TWENTY-ONE PRESIDENTS to the Democrats. His policy of internal improvements at the charge ofthe nation, and the maintenance of a protective tariff, soon became thecardinal doctrines of the Whigs, and his chief secretary and adviser wasafterwards the leader of that party. On the other hand, all the elementsof opposition to Adams and his policy gathered to the support of Jackson,. ANDREW and in his second contest for the Presidency, Adams was the candidate ofthe party in opposition to the Democrats, and was thus again defeated bya party with which he had been in active co-operation. The defeat was adisastrous one—Jackson receiving 178 and Adams 83 electoral votes. OUR TWENTY-ONE PRESIDENTS I05 In his long after-career in Congress, Adams was independent of partyties, devoting his energies chiefly to matters of principle, in advocacy ofwhich neither of the great parties then in existence was ready to followhim. The odium which some of his party changes brought upon him, likethat incurred by his independent championship of the right of petition,has passed utterly away, and the calmer judgment of a later day recognizesand respects the sincerity with which he followed his convictions at cost ofhis reputation for consistency. If circumstances, at the time of his quit-ting the Federalists,
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