Messages Of Gen Andrew Jackson With A Short Sketch Of His Life

Author : United States President
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ISBN 13 : 9781440067501
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Download or read book Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson written by United States President and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson: With a Short Sketch of His Life Introduction. For nearly forty years Andrew Jackson was the most popular man in America; from the day when he won the great victory at New Orleans until his last utterances at The Hermitage, the common people heard and followed him gladly: and for years after his death, his name was a name to be conjured with in American politics. He left the presidency as popular as he entered it, and having served two terms named his successor. Of no other President is this true. And though Van Buren sadministration reaped the whirlwind, the mass of the American people did not for a moment blame Andrew Jackson as the cause of panic and disaster. The German historian of the United States, Von Hoist, writes of The Reign of Andrew Jackson, and later historians and biographers have caught up the strain. Tyranny and despotism were easy words in Jacksons time: he often uses them when speaking of nullification, and the Whigs applied the terms to Jacksons administration. It is somewhat paradoxical that the idol of American Democracy should have been an autocrat. It is well known that the Federalist historians got the initiative and told their story largely to the conversion of posterity; the Democratic historians, until later years, have been relegated to second place. Doubtless the explanation lies in the course and the consequences of the long and finally terrible conflict between Confederacy and Nation: the supremacy of the Nation giving character and standing to Federalist ideas which otherwise never had come to them. One result of the predominance of the Hamiltonian School, at least in American literature, tias been the general hostility of historians and biographers to Andrew Jackson. Eulogies of Jackson are as plentiful as blackberries, but most of them were written by standing political candidates who sought by praising Jackson to be suffered to gather up some of the crumbs which fell from the White House table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.