8. What troubles did Mr. Adams find? What party was led by Henry Clay? What were some of the Whig principles?
9. What did General Jackson and his party advocate?
10. What results were produced by the violent assertions of these opinions?
11. What is said of political animosities?
12. How was the question of slavery viewed? What State refused to recognize the legality of slave property? What society was organized?
CHAPTER XLVI.
THE CONDITION OF THE STATE.
A. D. 1827 TO 1836.
1. While the Republic of the United States was so divided and agitated as to matters of policy touching the interests of all the Union, there were, at the same time, many issues of local importance confined to North Carolina.
2. The old habit of annually changing the place for holding the sessions of the Legislature had first brought about a feeling of sectionalism between the eastern and western counties. Western men had first learned to combine in securing Hillsboro rather than New Bern for this purpose. It was natural and right for them to seek to lessen as much as possible the distance that separated the State capital from their homes.