Born in 1767, both Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams had been only adolescents during the Revolution, and indeed over these very decades the two future presidents and political adversaries increasingly felt the burden of living up to the heights achieved by the founding generation.
Unlike their fathers, these men could not lay claim to what became known as the ‘spirit of 1776.’ It is hard to find a more unlikely couple than Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, yet both were two of the most prominent men of that post-revolutionary generation and shared in common much more than one would expect. Over the first two decades of the nineteenth century a new generation of men rose to prominence in the young American republic. Perry was both a nauseating drink and the name of one of the American naval heroes in the war.
Contemporary personification of the US, Brother Jonathan, pouring Perry down the throat of UK’s personification, John Bull.
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