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JACKSON, Andrew (1767-1845). President. Letter signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, to T. Grover and others, Washington, 4 September 1835. 2 1/8 pp, 4to, remnants of tape on top corners.
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JACKSON, Andrew (1767-1845). President. Letter signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, to T. Grover and others, Washington, 4 September 1835. 2 1/8 pp, 4to, remnants of tape on top corners.
JACKSON'S STATES' RIGHTS POLICY: "NEVER TO INTERFERE WITH STATE ELECTIONS"
An intriguing letter which gives insight into the political beliefs of President Andrew Jackson. Jackson, the Tennessee slaveholder who won everlasting fame for his heroic stand against British frontal assaults at the Battle of New Orleans, obtained the presidency in the election of 1828. Representing a platform based upon political equality, republican virtues and a reduction of federal power, Jackson held fast to his beliefs, vetoing more bills than all of the former presidents combined. Although his stance against South Carolina in the Nullification Crisis seemed to prove otherwise, Jackson rarely wavered in his views on the limits of federal power: "he was a well-known friend of states' rights" (Watson, Liberty and Power, p 121).
Here, in a letter addressed to a group of men who sought to publish one of Jackson's letters for political purposes, the President writes: "I received...your communication...requesting a copy of the letter referred to in the one which I wrote to Mr. Horn containing the following remark - 'If my opinions in regard to Governor Wolf [Governor of Pennsylvania] and General Muhlenberg are considered by you of any importance to the public you have them already very seriously expressed in my first reply which you are at liberty to publish if you please'." Jackson now replies with a bold stance in regards to federal interference in state affairs: "It would afford me pleasure to comply with your request if I could perceive that by doing so I should remove any well founded prejudice produced by a misapprehension of my conduct or sentiments. I had no agency in the publication of the letter to Mr. Horn containing the above extract, and only authorized the publication of the private letter to which it refers because it answered frankly and unreservedly the intimation made by him as my personal friend that the terms in which I had alluded to the Governor of your state on a public occasion had received a construction adverse to my maxim never to interfere with state elections...I do not feel myself at liberty to furnish a copy of it. I could not do so without incurring the reputation of having extended my name into your political contests."
The presidency of Andrew Jackson created substantial political opposition, primarily due to Jackson's unflinching views. After Jackson destroyed the National Bank by removing federal deposits from its vaults, his political foes came together under the umbrella of a new party known as the Whigs.
Provenance: The personal collection of Herbert Gunnison (1858-1932), publisher of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle -- The present owners.
JACKSON'S STATES' RIGHTS POLICY: "NEVER TO INTERFERE WITH STATE ELECTIONS"
An intriguing letter which gives insight into the political beliefs of President Andrew Jackson. Jackson, the Tennessee slaveholder who won everlasting fame for his heroic stand against British frontal assaults at the Battle of New Orleans, obtained the presidency in the election of 1828. Representing a platform based upon political equality, republican virtues and a reduction of federal power, Jackson held fast to his beliefs, vetoing more bills than all of the former presidents combined. Although his stance against South Carolina in the Nullification Crisis seemed to prove otherwise, Jackson rarely wavered in his views on the limits of federal power: "he was a well-known friend of states' rights" (Watson, Liberty and Power, p 121).
Here, in a letter addressed to a group of men who sought to publish one of Jackson's letters for political purposes, the President writes: "I received...your communication...requesting a copy of the letter referred to in the one which I wrote to Mr. Horn containing the following remark - 'If my opinions in regard to Governor Wolf [Governor of Pennsylvania] and General Muhlenberg are considered by you of any importance to the public you have them already very seriously expressed in my first reply which you are at liberty to publish if you please'." Jackson now replies with a bold stance in regards to federal interference in state affairs: "It would afford me pleasure to comply with your request if I could perceive that by doing so I should remove any well founded prejudice produced by a misapprehension of my conduct or sentiments. I had no agency in the publication of the letter to Mr. Horn containing the above extract, and only authorized the publication of the private letter to which it refers because it answered frankly and unreservedly the intimation made by him as my personal friend that the terms in which I had alluded to the Governor of your state on a public occasion had received a construction adverse to my maxim never to interfere with state elections...I do not feel myself at liberty to furnish a copy of it. I could not do so without incurring the reputation of having extended my name into your political contests."
The presidency of Andrew Jackson created substantial political opposition, primarily due to Jackson's unflinching views. After Jackson destroyed the National Bank by removing federal deposits from its vaults, his political foes came together under the umbrella of a new party known as the Whigs.
Provenance: The personal collection of Herbert Gunnison (1858-1932), publisher of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle -- The present owners.