The Democratic and Whig parties conceived individualism to be very different. The Democrats were still torn between what they felt and what society felt, where as the Whigs were very secure in their internal feelings. "The Whigs were comfortable with rational, self-interested human relations (Kohl 63)." "Most Jacksonians (Democrats) found that they could adapt their behaviors more easily than their feelings (Kohl 21)."
             The Jacksonian Democrats way of thinking was vastly different than the thinking of the Whigs. "While, as an individual, he (JD) still relied heavily on the secure relations of a personal world, his society increasingly bestowed its benefits on those who were more comfortable with an ethic of individualism (Kohl 21)." "Democrats were often induced to take up the new ways, but the political policies they enacted and the language they used to describe them reveal an anxiety born of inner conflict (Kohl 21)."
             Many Jacksonians felt that the world was treating them unfairly (Kohl 21). "The standard form of Jacksonian rhetoric was accusatory (Kohl 21)." "It was critical, unhappy with the world, looking for an evil to attack, always pointing to a malefactor (Kohl 21)." The Jacksonians belief was not just the cry from poor people; rather most Jacksonians were men of wealth and position.
             "The Jacksonian was prone to the belief that he was always investing more in the world than he was deriving form it (Kohl 21-22)" "If he progressed, it was despite obstacles which had been thrown in his way (Kohl 22)." "If he did well he should have done better (Kohl 22)." "Some reward was always withheld from him (Kohl 22)." "Any progress he made was individual and solitary; associations and institutions tended to retard, not facilitate his purposes (Kohl 22)."
             "The Democrat party of the Jacksonian era drew together th...