The wing of the national Democratic Party Sanders represented was an insurgent branch of progressive Jacksonianism denouncing the "old fogey" faction<ref name=papers>Bickel, Richard; Krowl, Michelle. [http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2012/ms012053.pdf George Nicholas Sanders Family Papers]. ''Library of Congress''. Retrieved September 28, 2023.</ref> led by the aging [[Lewis Cass]]. Historian Merle Curti described the movement as "a crusade for European republicanism would divert attention from sectional controversies, open European markets to American surplus, and fulfill the American mission of furthering the cause of democracy and freedom throughout the world."<ref name=papers/> | The wing of the national Democratic Party Sanders represented was an insurgent branch of progressive Jacksonianism denouncing the "old fogey" faction<ref name=papers>Bickel, Richard; Krowl, Michelle. [http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2012/ms012053.pdf George Nicholas Sanders Family Papers]. ''Library of Congress''. Retrieved September 28, 2023.</ref> led by the aging [[Lewis Cass]]. Historian Merle Curti described the movement as "a crusade for European republicanism would divert attention from sectional controversies, open European markets to American surplus, and fulfill the American mission of furthering the cause of democracy and freedom throughout the world."<ref name=papers/> |