Professor Daniel Walker Howe of the University of California at Los Angeles. noted that "Whig policies did not have the object of redistributing wealth or diminishing the influence of the privileged ... For all their innovations in economic policy. the Whigs usually thought of themselves as conservatives." 34 Thus while the Whigs represented the dominant groups in society. they failed to become the dominant party. They lost critical elections to the Jacksonian Democrats who had become more clearly identified with labor. small farmers. immigrants. and the "common folk." Mr. President. the Whig party. which was born in its opposition to President Andrew Jackson and his Bank policies. came together first in the efforts of the United States Senate to censure Jackson. The Whigs lasted for another thirty years. during which time its leaders struggled gallantly to hold this nation together against sectional tensions and powerful forces of disunity.
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