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Title: The Reign of Andrew Jackson

Author: Frederic Austin Ogg

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Language: English

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THE REIGN OF ANDREW JACKSON

A Chronicle of the Frontier in Politics

By

FREDERIC AUSTIN OGG

1919

CONTENTS

I. JACKSON THE FRONTIERSMAN

II. THE CREEK WAR AND THE VICTORY OF NEW ORLEANS

III. THE "CONQUEST" OF FLORIDA

IV. THE DEATH OF "KING CAUCUS"

V. THE DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH

VI. THE "REIGN" BEGINS

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
two neighbors with their families, who thus made up a typical
eighteenth-century emigrant group. Arrived at Charleston, the
travelers fitted themselves out for an overland journey, awaited a
stretch of favorable weather, and set off for the Waxhaw settlement,
one hundred and eighty miles to the northwest, where numbers of their
kinsmen and countrymen were already established. There the Jacksons
were received with open arms by the family of a second brother-in-law,
who had migrated a few years earlier and who now had a comfortable log
house and a good-sized clearing.

The settlement lay on the banks of the upper Catawba, near the
junction