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Ferling on Washington Administration by Arieh Sclar

Although many observers friendly to the administration continued to misinterpret the rotation policy, Jackson always insisted that he...

We behold our sea-faring citizens still the daily victims of lawless violence, committed on the great common and highway of nations, even...

Questions concerning the pricing of land, the speed at which it should be surveyed and opened for settlement [led to a division between...

This leads us to inquire into the origin of this government and the source of its power. Whose agent is it? Is it the creature of the...

Mr Adams is the Constitutional President and as such I would myself be the last man in the Commonwealth to oppose him upon any other...

There is one strong and striking point of view in which the subject of impressment may be considered, and which really renders the tame...

I am aware that on two subjects I have the misfortune to differ with many of my Virginia friends – Internal Improvements and Home...

“The president had received the dispatches that Marshall had written describing the XYZ Affair and the collapse of negotiations with...

Attended the Cabinet meeting at the President’s from noon till five o’clock. The subject of deliberation was General Jackson’s late...

I walked home with Calhoun who said that the principles which I had avowed were just and noble but that in the Southern country, whenever...