VII. THE WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATE

VIII. TARIFF AND NULLIFICATION

IX. THE WAR ON THE UNITED STATES BANK

X. THE REMOVAL OF THE SOUTHERN INDIANS

XI. THE JACKSONIAN SUCCESSION

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

INDEX




CHAPTER I


JACKSON THE FRONTIERSMAN

Among the thousands of stout-hearted British subjects who decided to
try their fortune in the Western World after the signing of the Peace
of Paris in 1763 was one Andrew Jackson, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian
of the tenant class, sprung from a family long resident in or near the
quaint town of Carrickfergus, on the northern coast of Ireland, close
by the newer and more progressive city of Belfast.

With Jackson went his wife and two infant sons, a brother-in-law, and