THEODORE ROOSEVELT
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1890
CONTENTS.
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[CHAPTER I.]
The Young West1
[CHAPTER II.]
Benton's Early Life and Entry into the Senate23
[CHAPTER III.]
Early Years in the Senate47
[CHAPTER IV.]
The Election of Jackson, and the Spoils System69
[CHAPTER V.]
The Struggle with the Nullifiers88
[CHAPTER VI.]
Jackson and Benton make War on the Bank114
[CHAPTER VII.]
The Distribution of the Surplus143
[CHAPTER VIII.]
The Slave Question appears in Politics157
[CHAPTER IX.]
The Children's Teeth are set on Edge184
[CHAPTER X.]
Last Days of the Jacksonian Democracy209
[CHAPTER XI.]
The President without a Party237
[CHAPTER XII.]
Boundary Troubles with England260
[CHAPTER XIII.]
The Abolitionists Dance to the Slave Barons' Piping290
[CHAPTER XIV.]
Slavery in the New Territories317
[CHAPTER XV.]
The Losing Fight341