The scurrility of 1828--Slander of Jackson and Adams--Democracy triumphs--Gloom of Whig aristocracy--The faithful march on the capital--The throne room at Gadsby’s--Jackson receives office-seekers--Politics in Cabinet appointments--Calhoun confers on patronage--Jackson ignores Adams--King Mob at the inauguration--The reaction on the Cabinet--Attempts to conciliate the disappointed--The morbid bitterness of Clay--Miniatures of the Cabinet. III. THE RED TERROR AND THE WHITE 64 Party organization and the spoils system--Demands on Jackson for place--The provocation--Jackson’s attitude--Van Buren’s doubts, and Lewis’s--Kendall’s pain--The harassed Cabinet--Ingham and Van Buren angrily rebuke Hoyt--Terror of the clerks--The exaggerated impression of the dismissals--The “martyrs” who were also criminals--The Senate launches the White Terror--Rejection of the nominations of Jackson’s newspaper friends--John Tyler’s part in it--His personal and political character--Type of anti-Jackson Democrat--The prejudice against “printers”--The cases of Lee, of Noah, of Kendall, and of Hill--Effect on Jackson--Hill sent to Senate that rejected him--Unprecedented party bitterness foreshadowed. IV. JACKSON BREAKS WITH CALHOUN 88 Political significance of the Jackson-Calhoun quarrel--Calhoun turns the corner--His previous political character--Effect upon it of the quarrel--Relations of Hayne-Webster debate to quarrel--Latter’s party character--Jackson’s attitude--Livingston speaks for Administration--Nullifiers miscalculate Jackson--The Jefferson dinner--Its purpose--Jackson accepts the challenge--His toast--Effect on Calhoun--Jackson’s dinner to Monroe--Learns of Calhoun’s hostility in Monroe’s Cabinet--Crawford’s statement to Forsyth--Letter of Forsyth is shown Lewis--Jackson hears of it and demands it--Jackson calls on Calhoun for explanation--Latter’s reply--Jackson breaks--Crawford’s character and career--Calhoun’s desperate efforts to extricate himself--Appeals to Adams--Latter’s notations--Calhoun’s pamphlet--Newspaper battle--Calhoun’s ambitions wrecked. V. MRS. EATON DEMOLISHES THE CABINET 116 “Peggy” O’Neal--Marriage to Eaton--Society outraged--Mrs. Eaton cut by Cabinet ladies--Jackson’s indignation and efforts--Van Buren’s advantage in the game--He features “Peggy” at dinners--Cabinet unable to confer--Van Buren proposes resignation--Jackson plans complete reorganization of Cabinet--Mrs. Eaton’s attitude--Jackson’s interview with Branch--How new Cabinet was formed--Branch and Berrien place blame on “Peggy”--Mrs. Ingham tarred by same brush--Eaton’s pursuit of Ingham--Latter’s early morning flight--Portraits of Livingston, Taney, and Cass--A Van Buren Cabinet. VI. KITCHEN CABINET PORTRAITS 144