“firebell in the night”: Jefferson to John Holmes, April 22, 1820,
Selected Writings of Jefferson
, 698.
“Pensacola is a perfect plain . . . one hundred feet”: Rachel Jackson to Eliza Kingsley, July 23, 1821, in Parton, 2:603–06.
“Yesterday I received possession . . . of my days”: Jackson to Coffee, July 18, 1821,
CAJ
, 3:105.
“It is further ordered”: Jackson to Robert Butler and James Bronaugh, August 22, 1821,
PAJ
, 5:95.
“Colonel Callava repeatedly asserted”: From the official report by Butler and Bronaugh, no date given, in Parton, 2:624.
“A party of troops”: Callava’s account, ibid., 626.
“The Governor, Don Andrew Jackson”: Unnamed Spanish officer, ibid., 630–31.
“pompous arrogance and ignorance”: Jackson to John Quincy Adams, August 26, 1821,
CAJ
, 3:115.
“Rising to his feet . . . before God himself”: Unnamed Spanish officer, Parton, 2:631–32.
“indignation and contempt”: Jackson to Fromentin, September 3, 1821,
PAJ
, 5:100.
“The first time the authority . . . to the stake”: Fromentin narrative, no date given, Parton, 2:636.
THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT (1821–1837)
28. C
INCINNATUS
“Our place looks like it had been deserted”: Jackson to Richard Call, November 15, 1821,
PAJ
, 5:116.
“I am truly wearied . . . my declining years”: Jackson to Monroe, November 14, 1821,
CAJ
, 3:129.
“For four months . . . quantities of phlegm”: Jackson to Gadsden, May 2, 1822,
CAJ
, 3:161.
“My health is not good”: Jackson to Monroe, July 26, 1822,
CAJ
, 3:171–72.
“The state of our paper money”: Jackson to Gadsden, May 2, 1822,
CAJ
, 3:161.
“I remitted you two hundred dollars . . . within my means”: Jackson to Andrew Donelson, August 28, 1822,
CAJ
, 3:178.
“The very best selections . . . 6 to 8 cents”: McCoy & Co. to Jackson, December 13, 1822,
CAJ
, 3:180–81.
But in 1825 . . . he planted 131 acres and harvested 71 bales: Arthur Hayne to Jackson, January 14, 1826,
PAJ
, 6:131n.
“Tom, wife, and nine children . . . Big Sampson, wife, and child”: Inventory of slaves, January 1, 1825,
CAJ
, 3:271.
“If he has left the neighborhood . . . then good treatment”: Jackson to Harris, April 13, 1822,
PAJ
, 5:170.
As it happened, Jackson didn’t sell Gilbert: See Jackson’s slave inventory, January 1, 1825,
CAJ
, 3:271; note 2 to Jackson to Harris, April 13, 1822,
PAJ
, 5:170–71.
“I regret the drought with you . . . the continued rains”: Jackson to Coffee, August 22, 1823,
CAJ
, 3:204.
“I had sat down to write you . . . has been very bad”: Jackson to Coffee, May 24, 1823,
CAJ
, 3:197.
“Although I have ever considered . . . in excellent order”: Statement by Willie Blount, undated,
CAJ
, 3:226–27n.
“The subject of the next President . . . and unsettled politician”: Gadsden to Jackson, November 20, 1821,
CAJ
, 3:132–33.
“As to William Crawford”: Jackson to Gadsden, December 6, 1821,
CAJ
, 3:141.
“I believe the welfare of our country”: Jackson to Bronaugh, May 29, 1822,
CAJ
, 3:163.
“I have always believed . . . or Mr. Adams”: Jackson to Gibson, January 29, 1822,
PAJ
, 5:139.
“It appears to be the general opinion . . . likewise the North”: Bronaugh to Jackson, December 30, 1821,
PAJ
, 5:125.
“I am silent . . . to that call”: Jackson to Call, June 29, 1822,
PAJ
, 5:199.
“On this day a resolution . . . feel and act”: Houston to Jackson, August 3, 1822,
Writings of Houston
, 1:13–14.
“a noble minded fellow”: Jackson to Gadsden, May 2, 1822,
CAJ
, 3:162.
“I have received many letters . . . make it perpetual”: Jackson to Andrew Donelson, August 6, 1822,
CAJ
, 3:173–74.
“My undeviating rule of conduct . . . power of selection”: Jackson to H. W. Peterson, February 23, 1823,
PAJ
, 5:253.
29. T
HE
D
EATH
R
ATTLE OF THE
O
LD
R
EGIME
“office should be neither sought for nor declined”: Abram Maury to Jackson, September 20, 1823,
PAJ
, 5:298.
“There are many better qualified . . . could not decline”: Jackson to Maury, September 21, 1823,
PAJ
, 5:298–99.
“Thus you see me a Senator”: Jackson to Calhoun (the letter actually has no addressee, but Calhoun seems the likeliest recipient), October 4, 1823,
PAJ
, 5:301.
“Although tiresome and troublesome . . . in this world”: Jackson to Rachel Jackson, November 28, 1823,
PAJ
, 5:320.
“The President takes a proper ground”: Jackson to Overton, December 5, 1823,
PAJ
, 5:321.
“There is nothing done here . . . instead of diminishing”: Jackson to Rachel Jackson, December 7, 1823,
CAJ
, 3:216.
“We are in the family . . . in the music”: Jackson to Rachel Jackson, December 21, 1823,
CAJ
, 3:218.
“General Scott and myself . . . has greatly changed”: Jackson to George Martin, January 2, 1824,
CAJ
, 3:222.
“All things here appear . . . to follow them”: Jackson to Coffee, February 15, 1824,
PAJ
, 5:357.
“You ask my opinion on the tariff . . . a little more
Americanized
”: Jackson to L. H. Coleman, April 26, 1824,
CAJ
, 3:249–50.
“There must have been a thousand people there”: Senator Mills quoted in
CAJ
, 3:220n3.
“The family we live in . . . your affectionate husband”: Jackson to Rachel Jackson, March 27, 1824,
CAJ
, 3:240–41.
“I declare to you . . . my own cottage”: Jackson to Henry Baldwin, May 20, 1824,
PAJ
, 5:411–12.
“I have fine prospects of cotton”: Jackson to Coffee, June 18, 1824,
CAJ
, 3:257.
“the last hope of the friends . . . forward by it”: Jackson to Andrew Donelson, January 21, 1824,
CAJ
, 3:225.
“I am happy to see the good people”: Jackson to Coffee, March 28, 1824,
CAJ
, 3:242.
“Was I to notice the falsehoods . . . is the people”: Jackson to Wilson, August 13, 1824,
PAJ
, 5:434.
“To tell you of this city . . . the Marquis, twenty-three”: Rachel Jackson to Elizabeth Kingsley, December 23, 1824,
PAJ
, 5:456.
“To say I have nothing . . . was against it”: Jackson to Swartout, December 14, 1824,
CAJ
, 3:269.
“The Lord’s will be done”: Jackson to John Coffee, December 27, 1824,
CAJ
, 3:270.
“The President’s Administration was toasted . . . never before experienced”: Entry for January 1, 1825, J. Q. Adams,
Memoirs
, 6:457–58.
“Two of my friends in the Legislature”: Clay to Francis Brooke, December 22, 1824,
Papers of Clay
, 3:900.
“
Accident
alone prevented my return”: Clay to James Brown, January 23, 1825, ibid., 4:38.
“You are a looker-on . . . lies before us”: Clay to Benjamin Leigh, December 22, 1824, ibid., 3:901.
“Mr. Clay came at six . . . would be for me”: Entry for January 9, 1825, J. Q. Adams,
Memoirs
, 6:464–65.
“I consider whatever choice . . . support Mr. Adams”: Clay to Blair, January 8, 1825,
Papers of Clay
, 4:9–10.
“I can tell you nothing . . . to be made”: Clay to James Brown, January 23, 1825, ibid., 39.
“Mr. Adams, you know well”: Clay to Blair, January 29, 1825, ibid., 47.
“As a friend of liberty”: Clay to Brooke, January 28, 1825, ibid., 45–46.
“I perceive that I am unconsciously writing”: Clay to Blair, January 29, 1825, ibid., 47.
“member of the House of Representatives . . . the Republican ranks”: Letter to the editor, Philadelphia
Columbian Observer
, January 28, 1825, excerpted in
PAJ
, 6:24.
“I pronounce the member”: Clay notice in Washington
Daily National Intelligencer
, January 31, 1825,
Papers of Clay
, 4:48.
“May the blessing of God . . . placid and courteous”: Entry for February 9, 1825, J. Q. Adams,
Memoirs
, 6:501–02.
“The old man goes quietly on”: Eaton to John Overton, February 7, 1825,
PAJ
, 6:28.
“The
Judas
of the West”: Jackson to William Lewis, February 14, 1825,
CAJ
, 3:276.
30. D
EMOCRACY
T
RIUMPHANT
“It is for an ingenuity stronger than mine . . . a ‘military chieftain’”: Jackson to Swartout, February 22, 1825,
CAJ
, 3:278–80. Published in
New York National Advocate
, March 4, 1825, and many other papers.
“I have not in my life . . . our country arrives”: Houston to Jackson, January 1827 (no day given),
CAJ
, 3:329; Houston to Jackson, January 5, 1827, ibid., 331.
“I must entreat to be excused”: Jackson to Tennessee legislature, October 12, 1825,
CAJ
, 3:295.
“the variety of dear little interests . . . increased by it”: Rachel Jackson to Katherine Duane Morgan, May 18, 1825,
PAJ
, 6:72.
“the combination, unheard of till then”: Randolph in Senate, March 30, 1826,
Register of Debates
, 19th Congress, 1st session, Senate, 401.
“The House was a perfect scene . . . Puritans and Blacklegs”: Marable to Jackson, April 3, 1826,
PAJ
, 6:161.
“I do not fire at you . . . is no greater”: Benton,
Thirty Years’ View
, 1:76–77.