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 Title: ** Andrew Jackson to James A. Hamilton ** Author:** Andrew Jackson ** Year**: 1833 ** Type of document:** letter ** Quotation:** "The union between Mr. Clay & Calhoun" ** Annotation:** The Jacksonians made a great effort to persuade voters to identify their cause with Thomas Jefferson and their opponents with Alexander Hamilton. A radical Jacksonian made the point bluntly: "The aristocracy of our country...continually contrive to change their party name," wrote Frederick Robinson. "It was first Tory, then Federalist, then no party, then amalgamation, then National Republican." In point of fact, however, Hamilton's son was a leading Jackson advisor! **


 * Despite his reputation as the President of the common man, Jackson's policies did little to help small farmers, artisans, and working people. Indeed, many historians now believe that notwithstanding his opposition to nullification, slaveholders were the chief beneficiaries of Jackson's policies. His Indian removal policy opened new lands for slavery in the rich cotton lands of the Old Southwest, and his view of limited government forestalled federal interference with slavery. **

Full Text:** I have been I may say, literally, pressed with business from sunrise to 12 at night.... The papers will have given you the union between Mr. Clay & Calhoun & how strange their position [is]. Nullification cannot be recognized as a peaceful & constitutional measure, and the American system of M[r.] Clay being on the wane, a union between these two extremes are formed, and I have no doubt that the people will duly appreciate the motives which have led to it. I have good reason to be gratified, content even, with my own course as I find these men are obliged to adopt it, to give peace & harmony to the union.... **
 * In this letter to James A. Hamilton (1788-1878), Jackson offers his view of the underlying political motives behind the nullification controversy. In 1840, Hamilton abandoned the Democratic party and supported the Whig Presidential candidate, William Henry Harrison. During the Civil War, Hamilton was an early proponent of slave emancipation as war measure. **
 * [|__http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p1.cfm__] **

=== **__Catherine Parr Traill, sister of Susanna Moodie, immigrated to Canada with Moodie. She and her sister were both already professional writers before they came to Canada. __ ** ===

=== **__[|__The Backwoods of Canada: Being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America (1836)__] __ ** ===

=== **A British politician who was involved in writing the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__bill for re-uniting Upper and Lower Canada__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and thought that it shouldn't pass because he didn't think that Canada was ready for "responsible government" and hadn't proven themselves to not be just violent rebels. ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His correspondence with Britain <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|__http://www.canadiana.org/view/9_01501/0018__] ** ===


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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">// [|Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone] //Gristle is a tough elastic tissue which converted into bones in adults. This is an analogy where I believe Macdonald is saying how hard it is to lead a civilization. From elastic tissue forming into a final product of rock-solid bones, it requires a long process whereas it did in the “Road to the Confederation”. <-Conrads' blog

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">"As a unified mass, they will want more rights, so I have taken [|the liberty to give the **white men only**, the power to vote].” ^ Daniels' blog, from the point of view of John Russell.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> [|Basically a council of Citizens who got very minimal say in the overall government, but it kept the citizens feeling like they had some power.] <-Saras' blog


 * <span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 18px;">I gave up after a while. A women living in the backwoods of Upper Canada had no voice to these powerful, corrupted white men. ** <-Louises' post, from the point of view of Catherine Parr Traill.