IV. The "politicians" who followed in Jackson's train demand
places as a reward. How their demands are met. The
wholesale dismissals of office-holders, and the reign of terror
in the public departments. The "rewarding of friends and
the punishment of enemies" inaugurated at New York under
Burr, Clinton, and Van Buren; "to the victor the spoils."
How this new contribution of New York to American politi-
cal life was nationalized under Jackson, and why it was
bound to be so. How the practice of the division of the
spoils was facilitated by the law prescribing the term of four