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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 of that stream with Waxhaw Creek; and as it occupied a
fertile oasis in a vast waste of pine woods, it was for decades
largely cut off from touch with the outside world. The settlement was
situated, too, partly in North Carolina and partly in South Carolina,
so that in the pre-Revolutionary days many of the inhabitants hardly
knew, or cared to know, in which of the two provinces they dwelt.
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