AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY SEVENTY YEARS AGO 295 



no change. On Van Buren's resignation, Jackson at 

 once appointed him minister to England, but there 

 was a warm dispute in the Senate over his confirmation, 

 and it was defeated at length by the casting vote of 

 Calhoun. This check only strengthened Jackson's 

 determination to have Van Buren for his successor in 

 the presidency. The progress of this quarrel entailed 

 a break in the " kitchen cabinet," in which Duff 

 Green, editor of the Telegraph and friend of Calhoun, 

 was thrown out. His place was taken by Francis 

 Preston Blair of Kentucky, a man of eminent ability 

 and earnest patriotism. To him and his sons, as 

 energetic opponents of nullification and secession, 

 our country owes a debt of gratitude which can 

 hardly be overstated. Blair's indignant attitude 

 toward nullification brought him at once into ear- 

 nest sympathy with Jackson. In December, 1830, 

 Blair began publishing the Globe, the organ hence- 

 forth of Jackson's party. For a period of ten years, 

 until the defeat of the Democrats in 1840, Blair 

 and Kendall were the ruling spirits in the adminis- 

 tration. Their policy was to reelect Jackson to the 

 presidency in 1832, and make Van Buren his suc- 

 cessor in 1836. 



During Jackson's administration there came about 

 a new division of parties. The strict constructionists, 

 opposing internal improvements, protective tariff, and 

 national bank, retained the name of Democrats, which 

 had long been applied to members of the old Republi- 

 can party. The term Republican fell into disuse. The 

 loose constructionists, under the lead of Clay, took the 

 name of Whigs, as it suited their purposes to describe 

 Jackson as a kind of tyrant; and they tried to dis- 



