Jackson himself did not favor a high tariff, but he was firm in his purpose that whatever law Congress passed should be enforced in every State in the Union. When, therefore, he heard of the action of South Carolina, he rose to the full height of his executive authority. The news came to him as he was quietly smoking his corn-cob pipe. In a flash of anger he cried aloud, "The Union! It must and shall be preserved! Send for General Scott!" Troops were speedily sent to compel obedience, and South Carolina withdrew her opposition. In 1837, at the end of his term of office as President of the United States, he went to his old home, The Hermitage, where he once more took up the life of a hospitable planter. He was now nearly seventy years old, and a constant sufferer from disease. With his usual stubborn will, however, he battled for several years longer. He died in 1845, at the age of seventy-eight, one of the most striking figures in American history. His prompt and decisive action in compelling South Carolina to obey the tariff laws did much to strengthen the Union, for it prepared the nation to ward off the greater danger of secession, in which South Carolina took the lead, twenty-eight years later. REVIEW OUTLINE RAPID GROWTH AND INFLUENCE OF THE WEST. ANDREW JACKSON'S EARLY HOME A RUDE LOG HUT. "MISCHIEVOUS ANDY" AT SCHOOL. "ANDY" AND THE BRITISH OFFICER. JACKSON'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE. LIFE AT NASHVILLE; BACKWOODS DANGERS. HOME LIFE AT THE HERMITAGE. JACKSON CONQUERS THE CREEK INDIANS. HE WINS THE CONFIDENCE OF HIS MEN. HE DEFEATS THE BRITISH AT NEW ORLEANS. JACKSON AND THE UNION. TO THE PUPIL 1. Explain the rapid growth of the West. 2. Give an account of Jackson's experience in the Revolution. 3. What sort of a man was he in his home life? 4. What and where was The Hermitage? 5. What were his most prominent traits of character? 6. Tell about the Battle of New Orleans. 7. What did Jackson do for the Union? CHAPTER XXII Daniel Webster, the Defender and Expounder of the Constitution [1782-1852] [Illustration: Daniel Webster.] Andrew Jackson's stern rebuke of the nullification movement was a timely one, for there existed in the South a widespread feeling that the Union was not supreme over the States. In the North, on the contrary, the Union was regarded as superior to the States and qualified to enforce any law passed by Congress unless the Supreme Court should declare such law unconstitutional. Which point of view was correct? The answer to that momentous question involved a long and bitter struggle between the two parts of the Union. The great statesman who set forth the northern view was Daniel Webster. He was born among the hills of New Hampshire, in Salisbury (now Franklin), in 1782, the son of a poor farmer and the ninth of ten children.