Jackson elected President; Calhoun reëlected Vice-President...........

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Balance of the sections....

The settlement:-36° 30'..

Comment on the Compromise........

PART II.

PARTIES FROM 1832 TO 1856

1832

Anti-Masonic party: Wirt and Ellmaker.......
National Republican party: Clay and Sargeant.
The first National platform of issues....

Democratic party: Jackson and Van Buren............
Two-thirds required to nominate Vice-President..
Andrew Jackson reëlected President..........
Martin Van Buren elected Vice-President.......

1836

Democratic National convention (1835)....

The two-thirds rule regularly established...
Van Buren and Johnson.......

Whig party; its distractions...

Various Whig nominations.........

Martin Van Buren elected President.......

Richard M. Johnson elected Vice-President....

1840

Liberty party: Birney and Earle.............

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Liberty-Abolitionist party: Birney and Morris............

Platform of the Abolitionists...........

Whig party: Clay and Frelinghuysen...

Platform of the Whigs...

Democratic party: Polk and Dallas..

Platform of the Democrats....

Comment on the Texas and Oregon questions............

The slavery disputation reopened.........

Equivocal position of the Whigs in the campaign..........

James K. Polk elected President...........

George M. Dallas elected Vice-President...

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