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Excerpt from United States, Vol. 3 of 3: From the Landing of Columbus to the Signing of the Peace Protocol With Spain
But Polk was not only methodical: the plans that he made he carried out. Up to this time all the Presi dents, from Washington down, had planned things which they did not execute; but Polk proposed to him self four special things, and he did them all during his four years of power. They were, reduction of the tariff, an independent treasury, the settlement of the Oregon boundary, and the Texan or Californian ac~ quisition. That was a large contract for four years, but he carried it. Out. The changes he made in the civil service of course occasioned some dissensions; he alienated Calhoun and Tyler; but he could afford to do that; for Tyler was now nobody, and Calhoun was South Carolina only. Upon the whole, his appoint ments were judicious. In June, 1845, Jackson died, nearly eighty years old, pursued almost to the last by swarms of office seekers who thought his word with the President would be conclusive. Polk, assuredly, had been his faithful disciple; but times were chang ing, and it is probable that Polk did quite as well with out that autocratic power in the background.
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