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The remarks made in the preface to the volume on "American Founders" areapplicable also to this volume on "American Leaders." The lecture onDaniel Webster has been taken from its original position in "Warriorsand Statesmen" (a volume the lectures of which are now distributed forthe new edition in more appropriate groupings), and finds its naturalneighborhood in this volume with the paper on Clay and Calhoun.
Since the intense era of the Civil War has passed away, and Northernersand Southerners are becoming more and more able to take dispassionateviews of the controversies of that time, finding honorable reasons forthe differences of opinion and of resultant conduct on both sides, ithas been thought well to include among "American Leaders" a man whostands before all Americans as the chief embodiment of the "cause" forwhich so many gallant soldiers died--Robert E. Lee. His personalcharacter was so lofty, his military genius so eminent, that North andSouth alike looked up to him while living and mourned him dead. Hiscareer is depicted by one who has given it careful study, and who,himself a wounded veteran officer of the Union army, and regarding theSouthern cause as one well "lost," as to its chief aims of Secession andprotection to Slavery, in the interest of civilization and of the Southitself, yet holds a high appreciation of the noble man who is its chiefrepresentative. The paper on "Robert E. Lee: The Southern Confederacy,"is from the pen of Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, Chancellor of the Universityof Nebraska.
NEW YORK, September, 1902.
PERSONAL POLITICS.
Early life of Jackson
Studies law
Popularity and personal traits
Sent to Congress
A judge in Tennessee
Major-general of militia
Indian fighter and duellist
The Creek war
Tecumseh
Massacre at Fort Mims
Jackson made major-general of the regular army
The Creek war
At Pensacola
At Mobile
At New Orleans
The battle of New Orleans
Effect of his successes
The Seminole war
Jackson as governor of Florida
Senator in Congress
President James MonroePresident John Quincy Adams
Election of Jackson as president
Jackson's speeches
Cabinet
The "Kitchen Cabinet"
System of appointments
The "Spoils System"
Hostile giants in the Senate
Jackson's opposition to tariffs
Financial policy
The democracy hostile to a money power
War on the United States Bank
Nicholas Biddle
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