Andrew Jackson's Declaration Of Corruption

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The 1824 presidential election is one that is well known for the “corruption” that is associated with it. In 1824, Monroe’s presidency was reaching an end, and the race to become the next president began, with four major candidates. In the end, however, the two remaining candidates for the presidency were Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. Since no candidate acquired the majority in the electoral votes, the election was pushed to the House of Representatives. Henry Clay, one of the initial candidates who was eliminated, supported Adams, who won the election. The result of the election was unsavory to Jackson, who had won the popular vote and believed the election to be a “corrupt bargain.” The term “corrupt bargain” is applied to the election …show more content…
The lack of evidence than can be definitely proven points to another conclusion that perhaps Adams and Clay did not have a crooked deal in order to make Adams president. The mere fact that Adams and Clay spent several hours at Adams’ residence does not necessarily indicate that there had to have been a bargain taking place. Many held it to be true that that the election was not corrupt, only that it was those supporters of Jackson that wanted to believe it was to explain Jackson’s loss. Therefore, Jackson’s declaration of “corrupt bargain” is not necessarily definitive or unambiguously true. Although, despite this, the evidence does certainly suggest a “corrupt bargain”, allowing Jackson’s conclusion to have a possible sense of legitimacy in it. This election, however, was not the only incident in history where a “corrupt bargain” was declared to have taken place. Another was between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden in the presidential election of 1876. Tilden, having won the popular vote, at first looked like he was going to win the presidency. A special Electoral Commision was created by Congress to settle an argument about who won the electoral votes, since 20 uncounted votes were in dispute and each party had declared its candidate the winner. The Electoral Commission, which consisted of more Republicans, gave the votes to Hayes, allowing him to win the presidency, and the Democrats called it a “corrupt bargain”. They claimed that a compromise had been struck to ease the concerns of Southern Democrats with the Compromise of 1877, which ended the Reconstruction Era after federal troops were drawn from the
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