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In retrospect, it is obvious that what social historian Mary P. Ryan has dubbed the pre-Civil War "era of association," from the 1820s to the 1840s, coincided with the spread of adult male suffrage and the emergence of competitive, mass-mobilizing parties: first the Jacksonian Democrats, then the Whigs, and finally, the Free Soilers and the Republicans.
Johnson's terse and narrow definition reveals his Tory opposition to the Whigs, who normally were the government.
But Webster's role in this context was only to tarnish the image of the Tories and brighten that of the Whigs.
In the antebellum era, New England-based Conscience Whigs denounced the North's pro-South Cotton Whigs as corrupt.
The tories form a party which are [sic] charged with supporting more arbitrary principles in government than the Whigs, their opponents.