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The Magic of the Many : Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston, 1800-1830
author
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Crocker, Matthew H.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
:
1558492224
print isbn13
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9781558492226
ebook isbn13
:
9780585325705
language
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English
subject
Boston (Mass.)--Politics and government--1775-1865, Political culture--Massachusetts--Boston--History--19th century, Quincy, Josiah,--1772-1864, Mayors--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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F73.44.C9 1999eb
ddc
:
974.4/6103
subject
:
Boston (Mass.)--Politics and government--1775-1865, Political culture--Massachusetts--Boston--History--19th century, Quincy, Josiah,--1772-1864, Mayors--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.
Page i
The Magic of the Many
Page ii
Plan of Boston, 1824, showing the twelve wards. From Caleb H. Snow, M.D., A History of Boston, The Metropolis Massachusetts, from Its Origin to the Present Period: with some account of the environs (Boston, 1825)
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The Magic of the Many
Josiah Quincy and the Rise of Mass Politics in Boston 18001830
Matthew H. Crocker
Page iv
Copyright 1999 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 99-15158 ISBN 1-55849-222-4 Designed by Milenda Nan Ok Lee Printed and bound by Sheridan Books, Inc. Set in Adobe Caslon by Graphic Composition, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Crocker, Matthew H., 1962 The magic of the many: Josiah Quincy and the rise of mass politics in Boston, 18001830 / Matthew H. Crocker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 1-55849-222-4 (alk. paper) 1. Boston (Mass.)Politics and government17751865. 2. Political CultureMassachusettsBostonHistory19th century. 3. Quincy, Josiah, 17721864. 4. MayorsMassachusettsBoston Biography. I. Title. F73.44.C9 1999 974.4'6103dc21 99-15158 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Page v
To my Mother and Father, Elinor Winslow Crocker and John Crocker Jr., and the community of North Haven, Maine
Page vii
Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
I The Setting for Insurgency
1
II New England Federalism on the Attack: The Washington Benevolent Society and Turning Gardens into Republican Farms, 18001819
9
III Militiamen, Debtors, Downeasterners, and "Demigods": The Ingredients for Insurgent Activism and Federalism on the Defensive
24
IV Boston Rebels Again: Local Challenges to the Federalist Order
45
V "Popular Hallucinations," "Ten-footers," and "Lordly Nabobs": The Middling Interest Leadership and Coalitional Unity
61
VI The Mayoral Election of 1822 and the Triumph of the Middling Interest
77
VII "The Siege of Boston is once more raised": The Betrayal of the Insurgency's Mayor and Federalist Death Spasms
97
Page viii
VIII Personal Partisanship, Political Fragmentation, and the Politics of Public Persona
117
IX Boston's Caesar and the Formation of the Modern Municipal State: Reform, Renewal, and Order
132
X Conclusion
149
Notes
165
Bibliography
203
Index
217
Page ix
Preface
This is a book about the growth of democracy in an American city during the early nineteenth century. It is an account of a politically disabled citizenry demanding and gaining inclusion in a political structure that, up until then, functioned more like a restrictive private club than an engine for democracy. Through grass-roots activism and political realignment, this discontented urban citizenry fought for and won an influential voice in the workings of government. While, in essence, this book explains how democracy worked in one city during one period of time, it also provides insight into a larger national phenomenonthe rise of popular Jacksonian politics. Indeed, the forces discussed in this work proved to be the harbingers of Jacksonianism.
Yet, as much as this illustrates the triumphs of popular democracy, it also demonstrates many of democracy's failures. Coinciding with populist victory, the process of democratization immediately began to deteriorate at the hands of many of the movement's most ardent champions. The political solidarity that had been forged from a common democratic vision and put into motion to subdue a limited democracyreplete with exclusionary practices, procedures, and traditionsbroke apart at the very moment of its success. With the advent of a more inclusive democratic system came the democratization movement's unraveling. A once unified campaign for inclusive democracy shattered under the very weight of its success. The consequences were the complete transformation of an American city's political structure and, ironically, an American city whose government looked remarkably undemocratic.
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