whig party members, henry clay and daniel webster. this is 55 minutes. >>> well, good morning everybody, and welcome to american history. my name is jonathan barth. you all know me as professor barth. and i am a history professor at arizona state university in conjunction with two very stellar world class programs, and there they are on the screen. the school of historical, philosophical and religious studies, quite a mouthful. so we call this shippers, great program. and then also the center for political thought and leadership, or ptl, another stellar program. if this lecture intrigues you, you should check out our center, we're doing some big things. and finally, if you are interested in learning more about yours truly, www.professorbarth.com, you can read about me on that website. >>> well, a generation of politicians has passed. alexander hamilton dies in a duel in 1804. james madison pictured there on the right retires from politics and dies in 1836. john adams and thomas jefferson die on the same day, july 4th, 1826, 50 years t

will representing new england for the whigs we have daniel webster, a lawyer from massachusetts. one of the most brilliant orators in u.s. congressional history. quite an impressive figure, dana webster is. we have in massachusetts, john quincy adams, son of the second president of the united states, john adams. he, too, is a whig. but then most famously, of course, we have henry clay, hailing from the state of kentucky, and clay, well, clay ends up running for president five times. just can't get in. can't seem to do it. but nonetheless, henry clay is one of the most important political figures in american history. what does clay do? clay has a program, a system, an american system, and that american system is threefold. henry clay says, first, we need to have protective tariffs on american manufacturing. and sure enough, henry clay, when he becomes secretary of state under president john quincy adams, adams signs into law a new tariff, the tariff of 1828, raising the tariff from 25% to 45%. that's one heck of a tariff, 45%. why do they do that? to protect american manufacturers

clay, in conjunction with daniel webster, he has a plan for his election. clay pushes through congress that summer, just a few months before election day, a bill to recharter the bank of the united states. why does clay do this? clay says, i think jackson's bluffing. there's no way, in an election year, he would do something so risky and so bold as to reject a bill like this. the bank bill passes the house. the bank bill passes the senate. the bank bill arrives on the president's desk. veto. jackson stuns the world. and vetoes the bill. unleashing a veto message in which he rails against that bank of the united states. reprinted in newspapers all across the country. now we have an election. just a few months away from the election and again this question of the bank is on everybody's mind. it's the number one issue everyone is talking about it. here's another cartoon. look at that. got to love that cartoon. pro-jackson cartoon. remember the hydra, that hydra of corruption, jackson going up against that financial beast. and well jackson, it's a hard campaign

it was almost daniel webster-esque at first.

john c calhoun was known as the great antagonizer and daniel webster was the great order. these three gentlemen really set the stage for the political battles that set up the war in the 1860's. the willard hotel was known as a place where people could get together in a bipartisan manner and discuss the issues of the day. >> peacock alley was a women's section. in the 1850's, the city of washington was growing. they decided that the dwelling should be united. the frame was torn down and a new brick facade was added. it was a good time for the willard's. one franklin pierce won, he became the first president to visit the willard hotel. it would host many presidents. in addition to having congressman and businessmen stay at the hotel, the willard's attracted foreign dignitaries, especially the japanese delegation. they were headed to the u.s. to visit with president buchanan. at that time there was no housing for dignitaries. that task fell to the willard. rooms were re-carpeted. pantries were built in and fast and entire floor of 60 rooms was given to the delegation. securit

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calhoun was known as the great antagonize her, and daniel webster was the great orator. these gentlemen set the stage for the civil war in the 1860's. the willard hotel was known as a place where people from both sides of the aisle could get together in a bipartisan manner and discuss after a busy day the affairs of the day and have to move forward into the future. marie: now we are in peacock alley, the name coming from new york city. at the time, wonderful ladies of society would go down the hallway connecting the two hotels and people who came to watch called them peacocks. when the manager from the waldorf astoria can down to manage the hotel, he decided that this hallway would be called peacock alley. in 1850's, the city was growing and the willard decided to keep pace. they decided that the two-story dwelling should be united. so the frame of a solid was torn down and new bricks were added. it was painted white and additional stories were added and the interior was enlarged. in 1850's and 1860's, it was a good time for the willard. henry willard backed franklin pie

people quieting and hushing and try around as they get what he says, it is totally different than daniel webster standing up for people and being bought away by this powerful oratory. but it was that quietness and the element of being magnetically pulled toward the depth of what he was saying, thatconviction, the fact he knew what he was talking about the state explains why people were so drawn to him. i don't think that history has given the right credit to james madison, i wrote the book basically about statesmanship. you see it in the way talks about the federal judiciary. easy about how he talks about the united states senate and when he talks of regular citizens. there was supposed to be challenging of public opinion. there is a must be research and knowledge. there was a bust to be alliances and compromises and debate and liberation, all of which go toward pushing to a higher plane and not just going to lows, denominator and not just into what makes people feel that. we would not be here but for his statesmanship at any number of crucial junctures that we had come when it was freedom of re

it was almost daniel webster-esque at first. he said that democratic norms and ideals were undergoing "a daily thundering." those are his words. and there was the famous last line of course, of lincoln's first inaugural the healer , lincoln, the lincoln who appealed to the better angels of our nature. that same lincoln had taken, at that time, a firm stance against on the expansion of slavery and was making plans to reinforce for sumter. -- fort sumter. he was not compromising. we've come here today and tomorrow to figure out compromises. that could have saved the civil war from happening. [laughter] or not. to decide whether loyalty to state was more important than loyalty to country or not. one of the many reporters we have been talking to in the last few months have been the gift that keeps on giving to historians whether we wanted it or not. one of them asked me, what will you say to general kelly if you talked to him? the only thing that popped out of me was, "general have you , ever been to gettysburg, have you ever been t

presidency, with a focus on jackson's clashes with whig party members such as henry clay and daniel webster. his class is 55 minutes. >>> good morning everybody and welcome to american history. my name is jonathan barth. you all know me as professor barth and i am a history professor at arizona state university in conjunction with two very stellar world class programs. there they are on the screen.

whig party members, henry clay and daniel webster. this is 55 minutes. >>> ,

1850's that really entered any populism whatsoever was the moderate, politicslite consensus of daniel webster, the old exclusive silk stocking vickery, which in its way had a degree of inclusivity in the sense that those conservative wigs were more sympathetic to black rights and the jacksonian populist, but nevertheless proved completely in able to deal with the slave power or the reaction of populism and the only party that could was the revolutionary and the populist party that joe describes, so i wanted to hear your thoughts on that? josh: that is a great question and i am sure that people were cringing at my use of the word pulists,aces, -- po because it can be used in different ways and i think it is important to dictate which --ween democratic politics distinguish between democratic politics. it is jacksonian populism, which i would argue cannot be separate it from ideas of race and gender. so if there is a liberal, colorblind populism in the 1850's, i'm not sure where it is. there could be a popular politics that is doing that, but the jacksonian template for populism, i think in the

i'll never forget reading about daniel webster, the great compromiser. that was a compliment. in the u.s. senate gallery because he know he was a great man. he was a great man because he forced people to come together and keep the union going, keep the nation going. okay. at what point in your career did you understand compromiser is not a compliment now. compromiser means gutless and possibly immoral? at what point did you know this? >> almost immediately. i came in with a democratic wave of 2006. that wave was driven by independent voters. an 18-point swing in independents. centrist candidates being elected to office. the first thing we encountered in washington was people in the far left democratic side saying put the idea of bipartisanship to the side. what you find in that atmosphere is if you're tagged as somebody who is bipartisan and likes to compromise and work with the other side, they'll use it against you as i found in a later primary. >> and it's only gotten worse? >> yes. >> a little more than 50 years ago we had life altering culture changing legislation. medica