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18. Charles G. Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 8–23, 27–28.

19. Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Horatius,” in Lays of Ancient Rome (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844), 60.

20. Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990), 154.

21. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (London: John Stockdale, 1787), 274; Thomas Hart Benton, Thirty Years’ View; or, A History of the Working of the American Government, from 1820 to 1850 (New York: D. Appleton, 1854), 1:45.

22. Hugh A. Garland, The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke (New York: D. Appleton, 1850), 2:83.

23. Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 315–16, 376.

24. John Pendleton Kennedy, “Address of the Friends of Domestic Industry” (October 26, 1831), in Political and Official Papers (New York: Putnam, 1872), 119–20, 122–23.

25. Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels (New York: Knopf, 2010), 46.

26. Robert V. Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 136–37.

27. Harry Watson, Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America ((New York: Hill and Wang, 1990), 132–55.

28. Jeremy Atack and Peter Passell, A New Economic View of American History, from Colonial Times to 1940, 2nd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994), 192; New York American, June 20, 1834, in Remini, Henry Clay, 463; Carwardine, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, 103–10; Daniel Walker Howe, The Political Culture of the American Whigs (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), 152–78.

29. “Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Effect of the Tariff of 1842, on the Agricultural and Other Interests of the West, by a Committee of the Democratic Convention of Hamilton County, Ohio,” August 30, 1845, in Public Documents Ordered Printed by the Senate of the United States, First Session of the 29th Congress (Washington, DC: Ritchie and Heiss, 1846), 2:852, 855; Marvin Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion: Politics and Belief (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1957), 13; Marc W. Kruman, “The Second American Party System and the Transformation of Revolutionary Republicanism,” Journal of the Early Republic 12 (Winter 1992): 509–37.

30. “Speech of Mr. Webster, of Massachusetts,” January 26 and 27, 1830, in The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union: Selected Documents, ed. Herman Belz (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2000), 144.

31. “The Autobiography of Martin van Buren,” ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, in Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1918 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1920), 2:416; Ted Widmer, Martin Van Buren (New York: Times Books, 2005), 82.

32. James Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson (New York: Mason Bros., 1860), 3:447, 460, 468, 474.

33. Richard E. Ellis, The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States Rights, and the Nullification Crisis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), 191.

34. Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 (New York: Harper and Row, 1984), 42.

35. Davis to Joseph Davis (January 12, 1825), in The Papers of Jefferson Davis, ed. H. M. Monroe and J. T. McIntosh (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971), 1:18; Shearer Davis Bowman, At the Precipice: Americans North and South During the Secession Crisis (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), 74; “Letters from New England No. 2, by a Virginian,” July 26, 1834, in Southern Literary Messenger 1 (January 1835), 219; George M. Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society (Richmond, VA: A. Morris, 1854), 258; Albert Pike, “State or Province? Slave or Free?” in Southern Pamphlets on Secession, November 1860–April 1861 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 341; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese, The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 97.

36. W. H. Russell, My Diary North and South, ed. Fletcher Pratt (New York: Harper, 1954), 52.

37. Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union: Fruits of Manifest Destiny, 1847–1852 (New York: Scribner’s, 1947), 466; Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 (New York: World, 1962), 51–55.

38. Diary entry for July 8–9, 1862, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, ed. C. Vann Woodward (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981), 410.

39. John Taylor, Arator; Being a Series of Agricultural Essays Practical and Political, ed. M. E. Bradford (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1977), 70; Drew Gilpin Faust, “The Rhetoric and Ritual of Agriculture in Antebellum South Carolina,” in Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992), 32–34; James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction (New York: Knopf, 1982), 27; Michael O’Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 1:542.

40. Fox-Genovese and Genovese, Mind of the Master Class, 313.

41. Tim Blanning, The Romantic Revolution: A History (New York: Random House, 2011), 67, 95, 121. H. J. Eckenrode, Virginia’s longtime state archivist, once complained that “beyond doubt Scott gave the South its social ideal, and the South of 1860 might be not inaptly nicknamed Sir Walter Scottland.” See Eckenrode, “Sir Walter Scott and the South,” North American Review 206 (October 1917): 601.

42. Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation, trans. R. F. Jones and G. H. Turnbull (Chicago: Open Court, 1922), 223–24.

43. Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, “German Land Above All Others,” in A Harvest of German Verse, ed. and trans. Margarete Münsterberg (New York: D. Appleton, 1916), 121–22.

44. De Maistre, “Considerations on France,” in The Works of Joseph de Maistre, ed. J. Lively (New York: Schocken, 1971), 80; Bledsoe, An Essay on Liberty and Slavery (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1856), 34.

45. Edward Pollard, The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (New York: E. B. Treat, 1867), 51; Lord John Manners, England’s Trust, and Other Poems