# Ep. 34: The Era of Nasty Dealings

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/liberty-chronicles/ep-34-the-era-of-nasty-dealings>

**By** Anthony Comegna

**Published:** December 26, 2017

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Historians call 1816-1824 the “Era of Good Feelings” because there were no real party organizations.

We have to remember that American democracy was not something won courageously over time so much as it was a long, drawn out process of corrupt bargaining between politicians and the voting public, Conspiracy- and coalition-building between current voters and potential voters, and Nasty, Nasty Deals.

[George Kremer to Andrew Jackson, 8 March 1825](https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/maj/01065/01065_0299_0301.pdf)

[Andrew Jackson to Henry Lee, 7 October 1825](http://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/maj/01066/01066_0083_0086.pdf)

[Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, 20 April 1820](https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/159.html)

Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1957.

Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers. Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War. Chicago: Open Court. 1996.