INDEX 489 ILLUSTRATIONS ANDREW JACKSON _Steel engraving frontispiece_ From a painting by Ralph Earle. MARTIN VAN BUREN 54 From a photograph by Brady in the collection of Mr. Frederick Hill Meserve. THOMAS HART BENTON 54 From a photograph by Brady in the collection of Mr. Frederick Hill Meserve. MRS. JOHN H. EATON (PEGGY O’NEAL) 118 From a photograph by Brady. EDWARD LIVINGSTON 134 From the bust by Ball Hughes. AMOS KENDALL 144 From an engraving in the _Democratic Review_, 1838. FRANCIS P. BLAIR 162 From an engraving by Sartain in the _Democratic Review_, 1845, after a painting by T. Sully. ROGER B. TANEY 162 From a photograph in the collection of Mr. Frederick Hill Meserve. WILLIAM B. LEWIS 162 From a photograph reproduced in S. G. Heiskell’s _Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History_. JOHN C. CALHOUN 172 From an engraving in the _Democratic Review_, 1843, after a miniature by Blanchard. HENRY CLAY 172 From the portrait by Marchant in the State Department, Washington. DANIEL WEBSTER 172 From the collection of Mr. Frederick Hill Meserve. NICHOLAS BIDDLE 212 From a painting by Thomas Sully. JOHN FORSYTH 386 From a lithograph, by courtesy of Mr. Waddy B. Wood, of Washington, D.C. THE PARTY BATTLES OF THE JACKSON PERIOD CHAPTER I THE WASHINGTON OF THE THIRTIES