American Politics Author:James Albert Woodburn Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE WHIGS AND THE JACKSONIAN DEMOCRATS THE third period of our party history, under the National Government, is marked by the rise and decline T... more »hird of the Whigs, from 1832 to 1856. This was Period of the period of party conflicts over the Second Party History. United States Bank, the Tariff, Internal Improvements, the Sub-Treasury, Jackson's Executive Veto and power of removal, the Annexation of Texas, the War with Mexico, and, finally, the compromises touching slavery in 1850. The principles and organization of the National Republicans—so far as they had an organization—became the origin of the nucleus for the new party of the Whigs. The Whigs- party, still under the name of the National Re publicans, in a national convention at Baltimore, on December 12, 1831, unanimously nominated Clay for the presidency. Following the recommendation of this convention, a "Young Men's National Republican Convention" met at Washington on May 7, 1832, and adopted a series of ten resolutions as expressive of the principles of the party,—"the first platform ever adopted by a national convention."1 These resolutions favored "adequate The whig protection to American industry " ; "a uniform Platform. system of internal improvements by the General Government "; the decision of constitutional questions by the Supreme Court; defended the Senateagainst the Executive, and denounced the "indiscriminate removal of public officers for the mere difference of opinion as a gross abuse of power, corrupting to the morals and dangerous to the liberties of the country." This platform is sometimes referred to as that of the National textit{Democratic party, which shows that the term "Democratic " had become popular, and that the oppo. nents of Jackson were not willing that his wing of the o...« less