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 290 LIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS there was a warm dispute in the senate over his confirmation, and it was defeated at length by the casting-vote of Calhoun. This check only strength ened Jackson s determination to have Van Buren for his successor in the presidency. The progress of this quarrel entailed a break in the &quot;kitchen cabinet,&quot; in which Duff Green, editor of the Tele graph and friend of Calhoun, was thrown out. His place was taken by Francis Preston Blair, of Kentucky, a man of eminent ability and earnest patriotism. To him and his sons, as energetic op ponents of nullification and secession, our country owes a debt of gratitude which can hardly be over stated. Blair s indignant attitude toward nulli fication brought him at once into earnest sympathy with Jackson. In December, 1830, Blair began publishing the Globe, the organ henceforth of Jackson s party. For a period of ten years, until the defeat of the Democrats in 1840, Blair and Kendall were the ruling spirits in the administra tion. Their policy was to re-elect Jackson to the presidency in 1832, and make Van Buren his suc cessor in 1836. During Jackson s administration there came about a new division of parties. The strict con- structionists, opposing internal improvements, pro tective tariff, and national banks, retained the name of Democrats, which had long been applied to members of the old Republican party. The term