Democracy's Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I Frontier Roots 1. The Great Road 7 2. The Dark and Bloody Ground 13 3. Education on the Frontier 22 Part II Kentucky 4. Felix Grundy, Esquire 33 5. Political Beginnings 40 6. Circuit Court Reform 48 7. Grundy and Clay 56 8. Chief Justice 72 9. Greenville Springs 76 Part III Tennessee 10. Tennessee and Congress 83 11. War Hawk 91 12. Congress at War 105 viii � contents 13. Return to Nashville 114 14. Criminal Lawyer 121 15. The Panic of 1819 131 16. Legislative Leadership 140 Part IV Jacksonian 17. Andrew Jackson for President 155 18. Election to the Senate 165 19. Jacksonian Senator 181 20. Nullification 189 21. Reelection 208 22. Land and Slavery 215 23. Battles with the Whigs 226 24. Attorney General 242 25. Twilight 251 Epilogue 261 Notes 267 Selected Bibliography 321 Index 339 Illustrations frontispiece Felix Grundy, attorney general following page 130 Ann Phillips Rodgers Grundy Felix Grundy, 1834 James Priestley, frontier educator Earliest known representation of Nashville, ca. 1825 Grundy Place, 1840s Randal McGavock, brother-in-law of Felix Grundy Sarah Dougherty Rodgers McGavock Carnton, ca. 1905 Sam Houston, Nashville lawyer and political leader in the 1820s Entrepreneur and military leader William Carroll James K. Polk as a young lawyer Sarah Childress Polk, wife of James K. Polk President and Mrs. James K. Polk Andrew Jackson, 1837 Martin Van Buren This page intentionally left blank ...