id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13009 Ogg, Frederic Austin The Reign of Andrew Jackson: A Chronicle of the Frontier in Politics .txt text/plain 53260 2418 63 In 1788, after the collapse of an attempt of the people of the "Western District" to set up an independent State by the name of Franklin, the North Carolina Assembly erected the three counties included in the Cumberland settlement into a superior court district; and the person selected for judge was a close friend of Jackson, John McNairy, who also had been a law pupil of Spruce Macay in Salisbury. Jackson's election to the presidency in 1828 was correctly described by Senator Benton as "a triumph of democratic principle, and an assertion of the people's right to govern themselves." Jefferson in his day was a candidate of the masses, and his triumph over John Adams in 1800 was received with great public acclaim. ./cache/13009.txt ./txt/13009.txt