Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
List of Illustrations

PART I. INTRODUCTION: OLD HICKORY, PRINCE HAL, AND THE WORLD OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC

Social Change and the Market Revolution
Politics in the Early Republic
Jackson, Clay, and the Party System
The Making of a Tennessee Gentleman
The Gentleman Becomes a Hero
The War Hawk from Kentucky
Postwar Problems: Banking Panic and Missouri Crisis
Round One: 1824
Round Two: 1828
The Hero Becomes a President
Four More Years
Aftermath

PART II. THE DOCUMENTS

1. Andrew Jackson, Division Orders to the Tennessee Militia, March 7, 1812
2. The Hunters of Kentucky, Jacksonian Campaign Song, 1822
3. Scaevola [Henry Clay], To the Electors of Fayette Country, April 16, 1798
4. Henry Clay, On the Proposed Repeal of the Non-Intercourse Act, February 22, 1810
5. Henry Clay, On the Seminole War, January 20, 1819
6. Henry Clay, On the Tariff, March 30-31, 1824
7. Edward Patchell, Letter to Andrew Jackson, August 7, 1824
8. Andrew Jackson, Letter to L. H. Coleman, April 26, 1824
9. The First Volley: Letter on the Corrupt Bargain of 1824
Henry Clay to Francis T. Brooke, January 28, 1825
Andrew Jackson to Samuel Swartwout, February 22, 1825
10. Washington Gazette, Mr. Clay and His Conscience, February 11, 1825
11. Margaret Smith, Letter to Mrs. Kirkpatrick, March 11, 1829
12. Andrew Jackson, Excerpt on Indian Removal from the First Annual Message, December 8, 1829
13. Theodore Frelinghuysen, On Indian Removal, April 9, 1830
14. Andew Jackson, Veto of the Maysville Road, 1830
15. Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto, July 10, 1832
16. Henry Clay, On the American System, February 2, 3, and 6, 1832
17. Andrew Jackson, Nullification Proclamation, December 10, 1832
18. Henry Clay, On the Compromise Tariff, February 12, 1833
19. Henry Clay, On the Removal of the Deposits, December 26, 1833
20. Andrew Jackson, Protest against Censure Resolutions, April 15, 1834
21. Andrew Jackson, Letter to Tilghman A. Howard, August 20, 1833
22. Andrew Jackson, Letter to Joseph Conn Guild, April 24, 1835
23. Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, 1837
24. Whig Campaign Platform of 1844
25. Henry Clay, Resolutions and Speech on the Proposed Compromise of 1850, January 29 and February 5 and 6, 1850

APPENDICES

An Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay Chronology
Selected Bibliography

Index