Andrew Jackson (94 page)

“I had the pleasure of seeing . . . fatiguing to them”: Jackson to Robert Butler, December 31, 1815,
CAJ
, 2:223.

“The
wonderful revolution
in France . . . with Great Britain?”: Jackson to Edward Livingston, May 17, 1815,
PAJ
, 3:357.

“well-armed, clothed, and disciplined . . . peace of the nation”: Crawford to Jackson, March 15, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:236–37.

“The growing hostile dispositions . . . it stands on”: Jackson to Gaines, April 8, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:238–39.

“The conduct of this banditti”: Jackson to Zuñiga, April 23, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:241–42.

“If the object was sufficiently important”: Ferdinand Amelung to Jackson, June 4, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:242–43.

“You will, upon the application . . . by military force”: Crawford to Jackson, January 27, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:227–28.

“The line must be run . . . as early as possible”: Jackson to Coffee, February 13, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:231–32.

“Why the government should feel . . . with the settlers”: Jackson to Crawford, June 10, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:244–45.

“Candour to the Government”: Jackson to Crawford, June 13, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:248.

24. P
ARTY AND
P
OLITICS

“A congressional caucus will . . . success is inevitable”: Burr to Alston, November 20, 1815, Burr,
Memoirs
, 2:433–35.

“I fully coincide with you”: Alston to Burr, February 16, 1816, ibid., 2:437.

“If all influence but the native Indian”: Jackson to Butler, September 5, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:259.

“We experienced some difficulty . . . a strong population”: Jackson to Monroe, October 23, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:261–62.

“He is a man . . . a true American”: Jackson to Monroe, October 23, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:261–62.

“In every selection . . . our common country”: Jackson to Monroe, November 12, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:265.

“The chief magistrate . . . it may be done”: Monroe to Jackson, December 14, 1816,
CAJ
, 2:266–68.

“Names are but bubbles . . . was unjustly ascribed”: Jackson to Monroe, January 6, 1817,
CAJ
, 2:272–73.

“My mind was immediately fixed . . . for improper purposes”: Monroe to Jackson, March 1, 1817,
CAJ
, 2:276–77.

“the best selection . . . Department of War”: Jackson to Monroe, March 18, 1817,
CAJ
, 2:282–83.

“Short sighted politicians . . . holding treaties with them”: Jackson to Monroe, March 4, 1817,
CAJ
, 2:277–81.

“
Then we will have peace
”: Jackson to Monroe, March 18, 1817,
CAJ
, 2:282–83.

25. J
UDGE AND
E
XECUTIONER

“Your order . . . will be accomplished”: Jackson to Monroe, January 6, 1818,
CAJ
, 2:345–46.

“I well remember . . . any other person”: Monroe to Calhoun, May 19, 1830,
Papers of Calhoun
, 11:165.

“In accordance with the advice . . . of its suggestions”: Jackson “Exposition,” unpublished pamphlet, 1831, in Benton,
Thirty Years’ View
, 1:170.

“General Jackson and Mr. Rhea”: Ibid., 178–79.

And in fact Jackson’s letter book:
CAJ
, 2:346n4.

“You have murdered many . . . or my lands”: Gaines-Hatchy colloquy quoted in Parton, 2:427–28.

“With this force”: Jackson to Calhoun, January 12, 1818,
CAJ
, 2:347.

“The excessive rains”: Jackson to Calhoun, February 26, 1818,
American State Papers: Military Affairs
, 1:698.

“The creek swamp was so bad . . . women and children”: McIntosh to Jackson, March 16, 1818, Jackson papers, Library of Congress, and Parton, 2:446–47.

“It is all important”: Jackson to Isaac McKeever, no date given, Parton, 2:447–48.

“They maintained for a short period . . . crowned with scalps”: Jackson to Calhoun, April 8, 1818,
CAJ
, 2:358.

“not as the enemy”: Jackson to Francisco Caso y Luengo, April 6, 1818, Parton, 2:451.

“I may fairly say . . . hung this morning”: Jackson to Rachel Jackson, April 8, 1818,
CAJ
, 2:357–58.

“Tomorrow I shall march”: Jackson to Calhoun, April 8, 1818,
CAJ
, 2:359.

“They were in a bad swamp . . . head of cattle”: McIntosh to William Mitchell, no date given, quoted in Parton, 2:459.

“Here I should have halted . . . for the present”: Jackson to Calhoun, April 20, 1818,
CAJ
, 2:361–62.

“The Commanding General orders”: Jackson order, April 29, 1818,
American State Papers: Military Affairs
, 1:734. Parton has the fullest account of the trial of Arbuthnot and Ambrister (2:463ff.).

26. T
HE
E
YE OF THE
S
TORM

“There is a chain of communication”: Jackson division order, April 22, 1817,
PAJ
, 4:113–14.

“The War Office gentry . . . on your guard”: Anonymous to Jackson, August 14, 1817,
PAJ
, 4:134.

“I have not permitted myself”: Jackson to Scott, September 8, 1817,
CAJ
, 2:325.

“If the Captain obeys”: Scott to Jackson, October 4, 1817,
PAJ
, 4:142–43.

“with the designs of an assassin . . . to number yourself”: Jackson to Scott, December 3, 1817,
PAJ
, 4:157–58.

“It is my earnest desire . . . our free government”: Monroe to Jackson, October 5, 1817,
PAJ
, 4:148.

“There are serious difficulties”: Monroe to Madison, July 10, 1818,
Writings of Monroe
, 6:54.

“This is justifiable”: Jackson to José Masot, May 23, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:208.

“I am informed that you have orders”: Jackson to Luis Piernas, May 24, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:210.

“Resistance would be a wanton sacrifice”: Jackson to Masot, May 25, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:211.

“Mr. Calhoun is extremely dissatisfied”: Diary entry for July 13, 1818, J. Q. Adams,
Memoirs
, 4:107.

“Calhoun says he has heard . . . in the speculation”: Diary entry for July 21, 1818, ibid., 113.

“The opinion is unanimously against Jackson”: Entries for July 15 and 16, 1818, ibid., 108–09.

“The Eighth of January shall be remembered”: Clay address to House, January 29, 1816,
Papers of Clay
, 2:148.

“We are fighting . . . avoid their errors”: Clay address, January 20, 1819, ibid., 646, 650, 658–59.

“to dismiss them with impunity . . . urgent and indispensable”: Adams to Gallatin, November 30, 1818,
Writings of John Quincy Adams
, 6:513.

“I have destroyed the Babylon . . . women and children”: Jackson to Rachel Jackson, June 2, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:212.

“absolutely necessary to put down the Indian war . . . never yield it”: Jackson to Monroe, June 2, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:213–15.

“Had General Jackson”: Monroe to Madison, February 7, 1819, Madison Papers.

“If the executive refused to evacuate”: Monroe to Jackson, July 19, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:225–26.

“the theatre of every lawless adventure . . . great measure derelict”: Monroe annual message to Congress, November 16, 1818,
Annals of Congress
, 15th Congress, 2nd session, Senate, 12.

27. C
ONQUISTADOR

“The years of 1819 and ’20 . . . state and federal”: Benton,
Thirty Years’ View,
1:5–6.

“It is, sir . . . a small college”: Curtis, 170.

“Let the end be legitimate . . . on the states”: Marshall opinion for the majority in
McCulloch v. Maryland
, Hall, 537.

“Times are dreadful here”: Jackson to James Gadsden, August 1, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:307.

“Eastern paper is not to be obtained”: Jackson to Andrew Jackson Donelson, September 17, 1819,
PAJ
, 4:322.

“I reached Nashville . . . side and breast”: Jackson to Donelson, July 14, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:222.

“My health is bad”: Jackson to Shelby, August 11, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:235.

“I was taken very ill . . . under another campaign”: Jackson to Donelson, September 17, 1819,
PAJ
, 4:322–23.

“I have never believed that Spain . . . a good appetite”: Jackson to George Gibson, September 7, 1819,
PAJ
, 4:318.

“Does Congress believe . . . in six months”: Jackson to George Gibson, February 1, 1820,
PAJ
, 4:356.

“My dear nephew . . . to instant death”: Jackson to Donelson, December 28, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:262–63.

“In prosecuting the business . . . I kill him”: Jackson to Call, September 9, 1819,
PAJ
, 4:319–20.

“I am not insensible . . . interpose no barrier”: Jackson to Monroe, November 15, 1818,
PAJ
, 4:247.

“The combination formed . . . politically damned”: Jackson to William Lewis, January 30, 1819,
PAJ
, 4:268–69.

“The insidious Mr. Clay”: Jackson to Rachel Jackson, February 6, 1819,
PAJ
, 4:271.

“What poor minded bitches”: Blount to Jackson, April 18, 1819,
PAJ
, 4:285.

“I am happy to be informed”: Jackson to Clark, July 13, 1819,
CAJ
, 2:420.

“Having laboured from my youth”: Jackson to John Clark, January 6, 1820,
PAJ
, 4:349.

“
Like Lucifer
”: Ibid.

“If you persist . . . let it come!”: Tallmadge and Cobb, February 16, 1819, in
Annals of Congress
, 15th Congress, 2nd session, House, 1203–04.

“No man is more sensible”: Clay to J. Sloane, August 12, 1823, in Remini,
Clay
, 180.