PARTIES AND PARTY LEADERS

PARTIES AND PARTY
LEADERS

BY

ANSON DANIEL MORSE

LATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN
AMHERST COLLEGE

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

DWIGHT WHITNEY MORROW

1821/1921

TERRAS
IRRADIENT

BOSTON

MARSHALL JONES COMPANY

1923

CHAPTER

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION, BY Dwight Whitney Morrow

I. THE PLACE OF PARTY IN THE POLITICAL SYSTEM

II. WHAT IS A PARTY?

PAGE

vii

III. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PARTY

IV. THE POLITICS OF JOHN ADAMS

V. ALEXANDER HAMILTON

XVI. CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE PARTY REVO-

LUTION OF 1800

98

VII. THE POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF ANDREW JACKSON

VIII. THE WHIG PARTY

109

120

IX. THE CAUSE OF SECESSION

126

X. OUR TWO GREAT PARTIES: THEIR ORIGIN AND TASKS 152

XI. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN

AMERICAN POLITICS

187

XII. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

206

XIII. I EQUALITY IN TAXATION. II COMMERCIAL UNION