Andrew Jackson (96 page)

“Randolph loses no opportunity . . . mighty volume on”: Eaton to Jackson, May 5, 1826,
PAJ
, 6:169–70.

“As soon as I arrived . . . of our countrymen”: Lee to Jackson, July 1, 1826,
CAJ
, 3:305–06.

“What a wonderful coincidence . . . the virtuous Jefferson?”: Jackson to Richard Call, July 26, 1826,
PAJ
, 6:191.

“an evidence that the Republic . . . for the Presidency”: Jefferson quoted in
Niles’ Register
, December 29, 1827, in
PAJ
, 6:341.

“negro
speculation
”:
National Banner and Nashville Whig
, August 2, 1828, quoted in
PAJ
, 6:486.

“The act was as cruel as uncalled for . . . The deadly deed is done!”: “Coffin Handbill,” October 18, 1828,
CAJ
, 3:455–61. The most thorough account of the whole affair is Parton, 2:277–300. According to Parton, the court and Jackson were correct in asserting that the militiamen had agreed to serve for six months but the order from Governor Blount specifying the six-month term was invalid.

“COOL AND DELIBERATE MURDER”: Parton, 3:144.

“Truth is mighty, and will prevail”: Jackson to Grundy, August 15, 1828,
PAJ
, 6:495.

“
dirty, black wench!
”: Frankfort
Argus
, April 18, 1827, quoting Frankfort
Commentator
, in
PAJ
, 6:344n2.

“such feelings of indignation”: Jackson to Lewis, December 12, 1826,
CAJ
, 3:323.

“When the midnight assassin strikes you”: Jackson to Keene, June 16, 1827,
PAJ
, 6:344.

“It is evident . . . their just reward”: Jackson to Call, May 3, 1827,
CAJ
, 3:354.

“The political news from all quarters . . . test the result”: Jackson to Call, October 18, 1828,
PAJ
, 6:515–16.

“The suffrages of a virtuous people”: Jackson to Coffee, November 24, 1828,
CAJ
, 3:447.

“Still, my mind is depressed . . . more fully shortly”: Ibid.

“Providence has procured for us . . . of the fowler”: Jackson to Coffee, December 11, 1828,
CAJ
, 3:452.

“Picture to yourself a military-looking man . . . devotion to him”: Unidentified correspondent of the author in Parton, 3:160–62.

“I could have spent . . . fix our destiny”: Rachel Jackson to Louise Livingston, December 1, 1828,
PAJ
, 6:536.

“Hitherto my Saviour”: Rachel Jackson to Mrs. L. A. W. Douglas, December 3, 1828,
PAJ
, 6:538.

“excruciating pain”: Jackson to Francis Preston, December 18, 1828,
PAJ
, 6:546.

“I cannot leave her”: Jackson to Richard Call, December 22, 1828,
PAJ
, 6:546.

A friend recalled . . . “twenty years older in a night”: Parton, 3:163–64.

“Could I but withdraw . . . happiness here below”: Jackson to John Donelson, June 7, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:42.

31. D
EMOCRACY
R
AMPANT

“General Jackson will be here”: Webster memorandum, February 1829 (no day indicated),
Letters of Webster
, 142.

“We have a dead calm”: Calhoun to Patrick Noble, January 10, 1829,
Papers of Calhoun
, 10:550.

“Our inimitable capital . . . deference to fashion!”: “A Few Days at Washington,”
Philadelphia Monthly Magazine
, April 1829, 419–21.

“No one who was at Washington . . . defiance on its brow”: Parton, 3:169.

“the mighty Xerxes ferried or marched”: “A Few Days at Washington,”
Philadelphia Monthly Magazine
, April 1829, 410–11.

He sat down directly: “The Inauguration,”
National Intelligencer
, March 5, 1829, reprinted in
Saturday Evening Post
, March 14, 1829, 2.

“free choice of the people . . . a foreign foe”: Inaugural address,
United States Telegraph
, March 4, 1829, reprinted in
Saturday Evening Post
, March 14, 1829, 2.

“Had the spectacle closed here”: M. Smith to Mrs. Kirkpatrick, March 11, 1829, M. Smith, 291.

“It was grand . . . to the President’s house”: Ibid., 290–91, 294.

“Streams of people on foot . . . out of windows”: Ibid., 294–96.

“It was a glorious day . . . for the penitentiary”: Hamilton to Martin Van Buren, March 5, 1829, Van Buren papers, Library of Congress.

“noise and tumult . . . as soon as possible”: Story to Mrs. Story, March 7, 1829,
Letters of Story
, 1:562–63.

“It was the People’s day”: M. Smith, 296.

32. S
POILS OF
V
ICTORY

“Why, Major . . . bring me here?”: Jackson quoted in Parton, 3:180.

“Great exertions have been made . . . department of war well”: Jackson to Coffee, March 19, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:13–14.

“We lament to see so many . . . election of General Jackson”: Ritchie to Martin Van Buren, March 27, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:17–18n1.

“You may assure Mr. Ritchie . . . and upon
principle
”: Jackson to Van Buren, March 31, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:19.

“There are, perhaps, few men . . . by their experience”: Jackson message to Congress, December 8, 1829,
Compilation of Messages and Papers
, 1011–12.

“My husband, sir . . . an inhospitable wild”: Mary Barney to Jackson, June 13, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:46–47.

“You can have no idea”: Mrs. F. Pope to Jackson, May 30, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:40.

“It is a painful duty”: Jackson to Mrs. F. Pope, June 8, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:42–43.

“The gloom of suspicion . . . he had offended”: Mr. Stansbury quoted in Parton, 3:212–13.

“I question whether the ferreting”: unidentified correspondent in Parton, 3:213.

“cleanse the Augean stables”: Jackson to Coffee, May 30, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:39.

“I have been crowded with thousands . . . go away dissatisfied”: Jackson to Coffee, March 22, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:14.

The best estimate is that between one-tenth and one-fifth . . . Jefferson defeated John Adams: Eriksson, 529, 540.

“It may be, sir . . . belongs the spoils”: Marcy quoted in Parton, 3:378.

33. T
OOLS OF
W
ICKEDNESS

“It was a matter of infinite satisfaction . . . to be pursued”: Eaton to Jackson, December 7, 1828,
PAJ
, 6:541.

“Mrs. Eaton is as chaste . . .
baser lie told
”: Jackson to John McLemore, April 1829 (no day given),
CAJ
, 4:20–21.

“most unblushing and unfounded slanders”: Jackson to Coffee, May 30, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:38.

“I would sink with honor”: Jackson to McLemore, May 3, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:31.

“ridiculous attitude . . . in their own”: Jackson to Call, July 5, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:52–53.

“I did not come here to make a cabinet”: Jackson to McLemore, April 1829 (no day given),
CAJ
, 4:21.

“I have found the President affectionate . . . entertain for me”: Van Buren to Jesse Hoyt, c. April 1829, in Parton, 3:292.

“I have found him every thing . . . I ever saw”: Jackson to Overton, December 31, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:108–09.

“That my nephew and niece . . . mortifying to me”: Jackson to Lewis, July 28, 1830,
CAJ
, 4:167.

“I never knew any thing but disgrace”: Jackson to Andrew Donelson, May 5, 1831,
CAJ
, 4:277.

“He is wholly wrong . . . to bear irritation”: McLemore to Andrew Donelson, November 10, 1830,
CAJ
, 4:197n2.

“I have this moment heard”: Ibid.

“overwhelmed by sudden calamities”: Houston to William Hall, April 16, 1829,
Writings of Houston
, 1:131.

“Tho’ an unfortunate . . . most profound veneration!”: Houston to Jackson, May 11, 1829, ibid., 132–33.

“His conduct has filled me . . . am truly distressed”: Jackson to Coffee, July 21, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:54–55.

“I pray you, my son . . . dismiss him”: Jackson to Andrew Jackson Jr., July 4, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:49–50.

“He has been reared in the paths of virtue . . . steadily in them”: Jackson to Francis Smith, May 19, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:36.

“My son, having your happiness . . . answer at once”: Jackson to Andrew Jackson Jr., July 26, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:56–57.

“You have many years yet . . . my grave in sorrow”: Jackson to Andrew Jackson Jr., August 20, 1829,
CAJ
, 4:63.

34. J
ACKSONIAN
T
HEORY

“With Great Britain . . . our free institutions”: Jackson’s annual message to Congress, December 8, 1829,
Compilation of Messages and Papers
, 3:1005–25.

“Were we in the place of Isaac Hill . . . and your peer’”: New York
Courier and Enquirer
, no date given, in Parton, 3:276.

“Were it not for the fear”: Webster to Dutton, May 9, 1830, Parton, 3: 276–77.

35. F
ALSE
C
OLORS

“It is true that the third . . . the General Government”: South Carolina Exposition, December 19, 1828,
Papers of Calhoun
, 10:445, 457–59, 493, 497, 507.

“The next two or three years”: Calhoun to Patrick Noble, January 10, 1829, ibid., 550.

“Sir, let me tell that gentleman . . . the bitter fruit”: Hayne speech, January 25, 1830,
Register of Debates
, 21st Congress, 1st session, Senate, 46–50.

“It is to the Union that we owe . . . one and inseparable!”: Webster’s reply to Hayne, January 26–27, 1830, ibid., 80.

“It is come to this”: Maxcy to Calhoun, April 6, 1829,
Papers of Calhoun
, 11:17.

“There was a full assemblage . . . Jefferson its father”: Benton,
Thirty Years’ View
, 1:148.

“that the celebration was to be . . . into the fire”: Lewis quoted in Parton, 3:284.