Thomas Hart Benton, Fifth Edition

This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents and linked Index

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
The Young West
CHAPTER II.
Benton's Early Life and Entry into the Senate
CHAPTER III.
Early Years in the Senate
CHAPTER IV.
The Election of Jackson, and the Spoils System
CHAPTER V.
The Struggle with the Nullifiers
CHAPTER VI.
Jackson and Benton make War on the Bank
CHAPTER VII.
The Distribution of the Surplus
CHAPTER VIII.
The Slave Question appears in Politics
CHAPTER IX.
The Children's Teeth are set on Edge
CHAPTER X.
Last Days of the Jacksonian Democracy
CHAPTER XI.
The President without a Party
CHAPTER XII.
Boundary Troubles with England
CHAPTER XIII.
The Abolitionists Dance to the Slave Barons' Piping
CHAPTER XIV.
Slavery in the New Territories
CHAPTER XV.
The Losing Fight