But the infatuation which had been the exciting cause of General Jackson's first election to the Presidency would soon have evaporated under the multiplied evidences of an ill-regulated will, had it not been encouraged and supported by a local interest which predominated in the councils of the nation.
Quincy argues that Jackson's initial popularity was sustained by local interests that overshadowed his authoritarian tendencies.
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Adams replied: "I well know this; but labor I shall not refuse so long as my hands, my eyes, and my brain, do not desert me.
Can you wonder that they shrink from the light of free discussion--that they skulk from the grasp of freedom and of truth?
But, if we go to war, what must be the effect of the peace that follows?
Adams surmised that it was owing to the indifference to his success of the leaders of the old Federal party, and remarked on the occasion, "This is among the thousand proofs how large a portion of Federalism is a mere fair-weather…
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