CHAPTER II 

 WHIG REFORM AND JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 



THE transition to the full tide of Whiggery 

 in Great Britain and of Jacksonianism in the 

 United States was marked by the ascendancy 

 respectively of George Canning and John Quincy 

 Adams. Canning succeeded Castlereagh as for 

 eign secretary in 1822, became prime minister 

 in 1827, and after a few months died in that 

 office. Adams was secretary of state under 

 Monroe for eight years, 1817-25, and was Pres 

 ident from 1825 to 1829. So largely was the 

 interest of both these statesmen centred on 

 foreign affairs that something distinctive in the 

 relations of the two powers could reasonably 

 be expected at this time. Nothing novel oc 

 curred, however, in connection with the familiar 

 subjects of debate: the right of search, com 

 merce, navigation, fisheries all remained sub 

 stantially as before. Yet the distinctive some 

 thing did not fail to appear. In 1823 the group 



of policies famous collectively and individually 



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