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ANDREW JACKSON 289 able to be somewhat more complaisant, and accord ingly rose in Jackson s esteem. The fires were fanned by Lewis and Kendall, who saw in Van Buren a more eligible ally than Calhoun. Pres ently intelligence was obtained from Crawford, who hated Calhoun, to the effect that the latter, as a member of Monroe s cabinet, had disapproved of Jackson s conduct in Florida. This was quite true, but Calhoun had discreetly yielded his judg ment to that of the cabinet led by Adams, and thus had officially sanctioned Jackson s conduct. These facts, as handled by Eaton and Lewis, led Jackson to suspect Calhoun of treacherous double-dealing, and the result was a quarrel which broke up the cabinet. In order to get Calhoun s friends Ingham, Branch, and Berrien out of the cabinet, the other secretaries began by resign ing. This device did not succeed, and the ousting of the three secretaries entailed further quarrelling, in the course of which the Eaton affair and the Florida business were beaten threadbare in the newspapers, and evoked sundry challenges to deadly combat. In the spring and summer of 1831 the new cabinet was formed, consisting of Edward Livingston, secretary of state; Louis McLane, treasury; Lewis Cass, war; Levi Woodbury, navy; Roger B. Taney, attorney-general; in post-office no change. On Van Buren s resignation, Jackson at once appointed him minister to England, but