An American history . w party who dropped the name Re- whjch, in opposition to publican and became simply 294 Jackson, took the name of Whigs vs. (Jacksonian) Democrats On the great question of slavery the Whig party went topieces soon after 1850, and the present Republican party wasorganized. 385 3 At present the Democrats require a two-thirds vote of their convention tonominate a candidate, while a simple majority vote nominates the Republicancandidate. 224 294 National versus Sectional Interests 420. Theanti-Jacksonmen form anew party,1834 421. Thecompositionof the newWhig party All our Pre
An American history . w party who dropped the name Re- whjch, in opposition to publican and became simply 294 Jackson, took the name of Whigs vs. (Jacksonian) Democrats On the great question of slavery the Whig party went topieces soon after 1850, and the present Republican party wasorganized. 385 3 At present the Democrats require a two-thirds vote of their convention tonominate a candidate, while a simple majority vote nominates the Republicancandidate. 224 294 National versus Sectional Interests 420. Theanti-Jacksonmen form anew party,1834 421. Thecompositionof the newWhig party All our Presidents and Vice Presidents since 1832 have beennominated by national conventions. Jackson had not been in office many months before his auto-cratic conduct made him many public opponents and privateenemies. When he issued his famous proclamation against thenuUifiers in South Carolina, in December, 1832, the CharlestonMercury came out with a flamboyant article against him, in which it declared : An in- BORN TO COMMAND. KING ANDftEW THE FIRST. furiated administration hasbeen driven to the use ofbrute force. ... If this Re-public has found a master,let us not live his subjects ! Recalling the Revolutionarydays, when our forefathersfought against the tyrantKing George the Third, itsuggested that the opponentsof King Andrew revivethe old name of Whigs, whichin the eighteenth centurystood for the foes of execu-tive tyranny. As the war onthe United States Bank andthe removal of the govern-ments deposits in 1833 madethe President enemies in the North as well as in the South, theanti-Jackson men became sufficiently numerous to form a newparty. In 1834 they took the name of Whigs, which theCharleston editor had suggested. The nucleus of the Whig party was the faithful group ofNational Republicans, led by Henry Clay, with their devotionto a high tariff, the National Bank, and internal improvementsat the cost of the government — the so-called AmericanSystem. To these were added now the
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