Andrew Jackson (89 page)

“Every day . . . in the woods”: Parkman, 279–81.

“When I do consider . . . forward that way”: Ford, 93, 103.

“His looks spoke out”: Fischer, 615.

Philadelphia seems likeliest: Parton (1:48) and other early biographers place the landing at Charles Town, but James (
Life
, 789–90) argues convincingly for Pennsylvania. Remini (
Jackson and Course of American Empire
, 427) concurs with James.

“200 acres”: Deed from Thomas and Sarah Ewing, Dec. 17, 1770,
PAJ
, 1:3–4.

“But he would never . . . I’ll kill him”: Parton, 1:64.

2. I C
OULD
H
AVE
S
HO
T H
IM

“A picture of a man”: Parton, 1:83.

“full of enterprise”: Buchanan,
Road
, 60.

“mangled in the most shocking manner”: Ibid., 63.

“If any persons”: Bass, 79.

“Not a man was spared”: Buchanan,
Road
, 84.

“I have cut”: Bass, 81–82.

“I’ll warrant Andy thought of it”: Parton, 1:89.

“I frequently heard”: Jackson recollections, undated,
PAJ
, 1:7.

“Tarleton passed . . . could have shot him”: Ibid.,
PAJ
, 1:5

3. A
LONE

“Andrew, if I should not see you . . . made my way”: Buell, 1:56–57.

“a very proud and haughty disposition”: Jackson recollections, undated,
PAJ
, 1:7.

“He had a habit”: Buell, 1:63–64.

“I immediately answered”: Jackson recollections, undated,
PAJ
, 1:7.

“It was too foolish . . . avoided him after that”: Buell, 1:63–64.

“three hundred or four hundred pounds sterling”: Ibid., 1:57.

“I had new spirits”: Parton, 1:98.

“None of them believed”: Buell, 1:69.

“What? Jackson for president?”: Parton, 1:109.

“is sufficiently recommended”: S. Ashe and J. Williams to Justices of North Carolina, September 26, 1787,
PAJ
, 1:10.

“1. I will practice law because it affords me”: Advertisement by William Tatham of Knoxville, reprinted as appendix 2 in Parton, 1:628–29.

“did with force and arms”: Jackson for Randolph County, March 1788,
PAJ
, 1:11–12.

“Paid at the battle of New Orleans”: Bassett, 1:13. Lister’s daughter presented the bill to Jackson in the White House; he denied that he owed it (ibid.).

“I often met him . . . any other young man”: Buell, 1:68–69.

4. A
WAY
W
EST

“Took our departure from the fort . . . by Capt. Robertson and his company”: Heiskell, 1:157–65.

“Extend the sphere”:
Federalist
, 61.

“The people had a coffin . . . the fruits of it”: Main, 122–34.

“A neighbor might as well ask”: Franklin to John Jay, October 2, 1780, Franklin,
Writings
, 1029.

“The leading characters of Kentucky . . . in eternal oblivion”: Wilkinson memorial to Miró and Navarro, September 5, 1787, quoted in Shepherd, 501.

“until the Kentuckians attain the independence . . . hope of remuneration”: Summary of meeting of Spain’s Supreme Council of State, November 20, 1788, Wilkinson, “Papers,” 749–50.

“That section of the country . . . to great embarrassment”: Wilkinson to Miró, September 18, 1789, ibid., 765–66.

“The cause was going”: Parton, 1:161–62.

“When a man’s feelings”: Jackson to Avery, August 12, 1788,
PAJ
, 1:12.

“My father was no duelist . . . friendly ever after”: Parton, 1:162.

“I had my saddlehorse”: Buell, 1:71–72.

5. S
HADOWED
L
OVE

“beautifully molded form”: Heiskell, 3:279.

“The old lady told me . . . to restore harmony”: Parton, 1:148–49.

“Not many months elapsed . . . reasonably be expected”: Ibid., 1:149–50.

“I had the pleasure of seeing . . . peace with the savage”: Jackson to Daniel Smith, February 13, 1789,
PAJ
, 1:16.

“June 2d, 1791”: Parton, 1:139.

“that the defendant hath deserted”: “An Act Concerning the Marriage of Lewis Robards,” December 20, 1790,
PAJ
, 1:424.

Spanish and other records reveal: Remini,
Jackson and Course of American Empire
, 64–65; Burstein, 243–44; Toplovich. These three sources are the basis for the reconstruction of events that follow.

At that time he had sworn the oath of allegiance to Spain: Remini, “Andrew Jackson Takes an Oath.”

“My Dearest Heart”: Jackson to Rachel Jackson, May 9, 1796,
PAJ
, 1:91.

“To this suggestion”: Parton, 1:152.

6. R
EPUBLICANS AND
R
EVOLUTIONARIE
S

“to make a county”: Buell, 1:93.

“If any one attacks you”: Parton, 1:159–60.

“contingent expences”: Account of freight expenses, May–August 1795,
PAJ
, 1:58.

Its inventory included butcher knives: Account book, 1795,
PAJ
, 1:455ff.

“to bear an equal proportion”: Partnership agreement with Overton, May 12, 1794,
PAJ
, 1:46.

contracted to purchase 15,000 acres for 500 pounds (and subsequent details of transactions): Calendar of transactions and agreements, 1770–1803,
PAJ
, 1:429ff.

“candid and unreserved . . . as few difficulties”: Overton to Jackson, March 8, 1795,
PAJ
, 1:54.

“To my sad experience . . . almost unto death”: Jackson to Overton, June 9, 1795,
PAJ
, 1:59–60; agreement with David Allison, May 14, 1795,
PAJ
, 1:56–57.

“They have not the smallest expectation . . . forward the boat on”: Donelson to Jackson, June 29, 1795,
PAJ
, 1:62–63.

“We are sorry so soon”: Meeker, Cochran & Company to Jackson, August 11, 1795,
PAJ
, 1:64.

“His note therefore”: John B. Evans & Company to Jackson, January 4, 1796,
PAJ
, 1:79.

He acquired what appears to have been his first slave (and subsequent slave transactions): Calendar of Jackson transactions,
PAJ
, 1:432–47.

In 1796 he purchased: Deed for Hunter’s Hill, March 10, 1796 (summary),
PAJ
, 1:84.

“The convulsions in France”: Franklin in Brands,
First American
, 705–06.

“liberty of the whole earth” and following description: Brands,
What America Owes the World
, 3–4.

“What an alarming situation . . . consented to it”: Jackson to Macon, October 4, 1795,
PAJ
, 1:74.

A 1795 census: Heiskell, 1:294–95.

“counting the whole of the free persons”: Ibid.

“Jackson, though exerting . . . he was driving at”: Buell, 1:108–11.

“as sweet a flavor”: Ibid., 1:111.

“the least imperfect and most republican”: Jefferson quoted in Heiskell, 1:298.

“’Tis our true policy”: Washington’s Farewell Address, September 19, 1796,
American Historical Documents
, 246.

“From the president’s speech”: Jackson to Robert Hays, December 16, 1796,
PAJ
, 1:103.

“In my mind, this address”: Jackson quoted in Buell, 1:116.

“just and necessary . . . to take the field”: Jackson to the House of Representatives, December 29 and 30, 1796,
PAJ
, 1:106–08.

Congress appropriated $22,816: Buell, 1:120.

“That an equal participation”: 29th section of Tennessee bill of rights, Heiskell, 1:98.

In this letter Blount spoke vaguely . . . “decided opinion respecting it”: Blount to Carey, April 21, 1797, and Senate Committee report, no date given; both ibid., 82–86.

7. F
IGHTING
W
ORDS

“War is their principal study . . . colours among us”: William Fyffe in Woodward, 33.

“We cannot live without war”: Unidentified Cherokees in Ramsey, 83.

“They are more serviceable”: Washington in John Brown, 81.

“We proceeded”: Marion in ibid., 111.

“In a few years the Shawnees . . . and destroy them”: Cornstalk in ibid., 144–45.

“You have bought a fair land”: Dragging Canoe in ibid., 12.

“You know you began . . . compensation for it”: Heiskell, 1:316–17.

“At a crisis in the great struggle”: Roosevelt, 3:121.

“Had the destroying angel”: Ramsey, 428.

“Viewing, sir, with horror”: Jackson to Sevier, May 8, 1797,
PAJ
, 1:136.

“the scurrilous expressions”: Ibid.

“Why those private letters . . . feelings requires redress”: Ibid.

“The voice of calumny . . . of mild philosophy”: Sevier to Jackson, May 8, 1797,
PAJ
, 1:137–38.

“Facts may be misstated . . . any other person”: Jackson to Sevier, May 10, 1797,
PAJ
, 1:141.

“It is painful to hear the cries . . . if not its existence”: Sevier to Jackson, November 26, 1797,
PAJ
, 1:154–55.

“The prevention of a settlement”: Ibid.

“Bonaparte with 150,000 troops”: Jackson to Robertson, January 11, 1798,
PAJ
, 1:165.

  “No news that can be relied on . . . the right of thinking”: Jackson to Donelson, January 18, 1798,
PAJ
, 1:167–68.

“Sticks and spittle are substituted . . . of Eastern quarrels”: Jackson to Blount, February 21, 1798,
PAJ
, 1:182–83.

8. R
ENDERING
J
UDGMEN
T

“His passions are terrible”: Notes of 1824 conversation with Jefferson, Webster,
Papers of Webster
, 1:376.

“I feel much alarmed”: Ibid.

“I mean to retire . . . your affectionate husband”: Jackson to Rachel, May 9, 1796,
PAJ
, 1:91–92.

“I must now beg of you”: Jackson to Hays, November 2, 1797,
PAJ
, 1:152.

“It is such a neglect”: Jackson to Rachel, January 26, 1798,
PAJ
, 1:174.