. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. 345 346 POLITICAL HISTORY OF 6, 1824. This session saw the disruption of the Republicanparty, and the dawn of the Whig party. Its only poHtical wo
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. 345 346 POLITICAL HISTORY OF 6, 1824. This session saw the disruption of the Republicanparty, and the dawn of the Whig party. Its only poHtical workwas the counting of the electoral vote and the subsequentelection of a President. The count showed 99 for Jackson; 84for John Quincy Adams ; 41 for Wm. H. Crawford ; 37 for HenryClay. For Vice-President, Calhoun had 182 votes, as against 78scattering. He was, therefore, declared Vice-President. In thecontest over the Presidency in the House, Clay, who was out ofthe fight,* threw his strength, or as much of it as he could con-trol, to Adams, which gave him 13 States,, as against 7 for Jack-son and 4 for Crawford. Though the election of Adams wasperfectly regular and constitutional, it forced the liberal andstrict schools of interpreters wide apart, and the latter, carryingtheir fight to the country in the shape of a rebuke to those Rep-resentatives who had slaughtered Jackson, soon had the vantageground. Congress adjourned sine die, March 3
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