The presidential campaign of 1832

Gammon Samuel Rhea 1889-

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• Jackson
• Clay
• President
• Political party
• United States

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• Langue: English
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iSERIES XL No.
HOPKINSJOHNS UNIVERSITY STUDIES
IN
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Under the Direction of the
of Political andDepartments History, Economy,
Political Science
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1832
BY
SAMUEL RHEA PH.D.GAMMON, JR.,
Professor of in AustinHistory College
BALTIMORE
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS
1922iSERIES XL No.
HOPKINS UNIVERSITYJOHNS STUDIES
IN
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Under the Direction of the
of Political andDepartments History, Economy,
Political Science
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1832
BY
SAMUEL RHEA PH.D.GAMMON, JR.,
Professor of in AustinHistory College
BALTIMORE
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS
1922COPYRIGHT BY1922
THE HOPKINS PRESSJOHNS
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THE NEW CJU PRINTING COMPANY
LANCASTER. PA.CONTENTS
Page
PREFACE vii
CHAPTER I. n1824-1828Party Reorganization, II. The Antimasons 33
CHAPTER III. The National Republicans 53 IV. The Democrats 72
CHAPTER V. The of the Bank into the CamInjection
paign 105
CHAPTER VI. The Conclusion of the Campaign 135
APPENDICES
155
BIBLIOGRAPHY 171PREFACE
An account of the of itpresidential campaign 1832, may
be well to cannot bestate, confined to thatsolely presiden
tial as be done with a nayear, might perhaps present day
tional ourcampaign. Today sharply differentiated, perma
have a definitenently organized political machineryparties
which functions and in theirrapidly efficiently designating
candidates and in the which willstating platforms theyupon
before the our national camgo country. Consequently
now are limited to the onepaigns wholly presidential year,
almost to the time embraced between andmight say April
November of that This and ofyear. speed precision oper
ation is due to our of travel andmeanslargely superior
communication.
Presidential the werecampaigns during period 1824-1832
facilitated no such means as teleby present-day railroads,
roads and automobiles. thegraphs, telephones, good Then,
circulation of both individual and information was limited by
such as could be extracted from motivespeed equine power
over roads which often merited the name.traveling hardly
This of affairsstate the river steamboat did little to improve
to its limited For if no otherforowing application. this,
reason, were of much durapresidential campaigns longer
tion thanthen now. In addition, it was a ofperiod political
new were werechange; parties party principlesdeveloping,
and new methods of candidatesfixed,becoming choosing
were tried. All these causes to make thebeing operated
the an affairof of never lesspresidential campaign period
than two duration. That such was the case is shownyears
the fact that the of was wellby undercampaign 1824 way
before the close of that of 1828 as soon as its1822, began
and the of that of nopredecessor closed, opening 1832, by
stretch of can be later thanimagination, put July 4, 1830,
the date s for the was launched.Gay campaign presidency
VllPREFACEvjij
For these reasons treatment of the camthen, any adequate
of necessitates considerable attention to much1832paign
fourthat occurred in the s firstyears following Jackson
election in 1828.November,
In this the writer s aim has been to show themonograph
and the which themaneuvers affectedparty development
course and outcome of the ofpresidential campaign 1832,
theand in this movement the first ofappears application
convention to So much hasnominating political practice.
been written on the that a new reJacksonian period study
but the here havequires justification, topics emphasized
never been treated.adequately
So are the of 1828closely presidential campaigns 1824,
and connected the two the ofdevelopment1832 by topics,
and the of theparties early application nominatingpolitical
of ofconvention that treatment theidea, adequate campaign
involves a of the two it-1832 study immediately preceding
It was this which makes the brief of thenecessary summary
of and 1828 contained in the firstcampaigns 1824 chapter.
In this and have believeelsewhere I Iout,chapter pointed
for the first the of the first state nominattime, significance
convention and forin thePennsylvania, precedenting germ
its the national and thatsuccessor, convention,nominating
had asthe idea of the latter been as Februsuggested early
1822. I have shown how came to inary, Antimasonry
in American the use of the conaugurate politics nominating
vention. It has never before been shown how enclearly
a was inone-man the National thetirely Republicanparty
of and how hard it was for acampaign 1832, pressed leading
issue on I towhich to have endeavored setoppose Jackson.
forth in some detail the internal for the successionstruggle
in the and of theDemocratic the resultingparty bearing
breach between and Calhoun on the InJackson campaign.
the same connection to correct the that theI have tried view
Democratic convention of owed its to1832 origin solely
s determination to force Van Buren on the asJackson party
vice in na-What took the threepresident. actually place