The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1770-1803

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Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1980 - 570 էջ
V. 8. This eighth volume of Andrew Jackson s papers presents more than five hundred documents, many appearing here for the first time, from a core year in Jackson s tumultuous presidency. They include Jackson s handwritten drafts of his presidential messages, private notes and memoranda, and correspondence with government officials, Army and Navy officers, friends and family, Indian leaders, foreign diplomats, and ordinary citizens throughout the country. In 1830 Jackson pursued his controversial Indian removal policy, concluding treaties to compel the Choctaws and Chickasaws west of theMississippi and refusing protection for the Cherokees against encroachments by Georgia. Jackson nurtured his opposition to the Bank of the United States and entered into an escalating confrontation with the Senate over presidential appointments to office. In April, Jackson pronounced his ban on nullification with the famous toast to Our Federal Union, and in May he began an explosive quarrel with Vice-President John C. Calhoun over the latter s conduct as secretary of war during Jackson s Seminole campaign of 1818. Also in May, Jackson delivered his first presidential veto, stopping federal funding for the Maysville Road and declaring opposition to Henry Clay s American System. In July, Jackson s refusal to use his pardoning power to save an Irish-born mail robber from the gallows provoked a near-riot in Philadelphia. By the end of the year, Jackson was preparing for his reelection campaign in 1832. Meanwhile the sex scandal surrounding Peggy Eaton, wife of the secretary of war, lurked throughout, dividing Jackson s cabinet, sundering his own family and household, and threatening to wreck the administration. Embracing all these stories and many more, this volume offers an incomparable window not only into Andrew Jackson and his presidency but into 1830s America itself. V. 9. This volume presents more than five hundred original documents, many newly discovered, from Andrew Jackson s third presidential year. They include Jackson s private memoranda, intimate family letters, and correspondence with government and military officers, diplomats, Indians, political friends and foes, and ordinary citizens throughout the country. In 1831 Jackson finally cleared his contentious Cabinet, reluctantly accepting the resignations of Martin Van Buren and John Eaton and demanding that the other members follow. But in the aftermath, animosities among them boiled over, as Eaton sought duels with outgoing secretaries Samuel Ingham and John Berrien. The affair ended with gangs of armed high-government officers stalking each other in the Washington streets, and with Ingham publicly accusing Jackson of countenancing a plot to assassinate him. Meanwhile, Jackson pursued his feud with Vice-President John C. Calhoun, whom he had come to view as the diabolical manipulator of all his enemies. Enlisting a favorite Supreme Court justice to gather evidence, Jackson crafted an exposition, intended for publication, that leveled nearly fantastic charges against Calhoun and others. Through all this, the business of government ploughed on. Jackson pursued his drive to remove the Cherokees and other Indians west of the Mississippi and to undercut tribal leaders who dared resist. To squelch sectional controversy, Jackson moved to retire the national debt and reduce the tariff, while reiterating his ban on nullification and his opposition to the Bank of the United States. Nat Turner s Virginia slave revolt in August drew a quick administration response. By year s end, the dust over the Cabinet implosion was settling, as Jackson prepared to stand for reelection against his old nemesis Henry Clay. Embracing all these stories and many more, this volume offers an incomparable window not only into Andrew Jackson and his presidency but into America itself in 1831. V. 10. This volume presents more than four hundred documents from Andrew Jackson s fourth presidential year. It includes private memoranda, intimate family letters, drafts of official messages, and correspondence with government and military officers, diplomats, Indians, political friends and foes, and ordinary citizens throughout the country. The year 1832 began with Jackson still pursuing his feud with Vice President John C. Calhoun, whom Jackson accused of secretly siding against him in the 1818 controversy over Jackson s Seminole campaign in Florida. The episode ended embarrassingly for Jackson when a key witness, called on to prove his charges, instead directly contradicted them. Indian removal remained a preoccupation for Jackson. The Choctaws began emigrating westward, the Creeks and Chickasaws signed but then immediately protested removal treaties, and the Cherokees won what proved to be an empty victory against removal in the Supreme Court. Illinois Indians mounted armed resistance in the Black Hawk War. In midsummer, a cholera epidemic swept the country, and Jackson was urged to proclaim a day of fasting andprayer. He refused, saying it would intermingle church and state. A bill to recharter the Bank of the United States passed Congress in July, and Jackson vetoed it with a ringing message that became the signature document of his presidency. In November, Jackson, with new running mate Martin Van Buren, won triumphant reelection over Henry Clay. But only days later, South Carolina nullified the federal tariff law and began preparing for armed resistance. Jackson answered with an official proclamation that disunion by armed force is treason. The year closed with Jackson immersed in plans to suppress nullification and destroy the Bank of the United States. Embracing all these stories and many more, this volume offers an incomparable window into Andrew Jackson, his presidency, and America itself in 1832. V.11 This volume presents full annotated text of five hundred documents from Andrew Jackson's fifth presidential year. They include his private memoranda, intimate family letters, presidential message drafts, and correspondence with government and military officers, diplomats, Indian leaders, political friends and foes, and citizens throughout the country.The year 1833 began with a crisis in South Carolina, where a state convention had declared the federal tariff law null and void and pledged resistance by armed force if necessary. Jackson countered by rallying public opinion against the nullifiers, quietly positioning troops and warships, and procuring a "force bill" from Congress to compel collection of customs duties. The episode ended peaceably after South Carolina accepted a compromise tariff devised by Jackson's arch-rival Henry Clay. But Clay's surprise cooperation with South Carolina's John C. Calhoun foretold a new opposition coalition against Jackson.With nullification checked, Jackson embarked in June on a triumphal tour to cement his newfound popularity in the North. Ecstatic crowds greeted him in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, and Harvard awarded him a degree. But Jackson's fragile health broke under the strain, forcing him to cut the tour short.Meanwhile Jackson pursued his campaign against the Bank of the United States, whose recharter he had vetoed in 1832. Charging the Bank with political meddling and corruption, Jackson determined to cripple it by removing federal deposits to state banks. But Treasury secretary William John Duane refused either to give the necessary order or resign. In September Jackson dismissed him and installed Roger Taney to implement the removal. Jackson's bold assumption of authority energized supporters but outraged opponents, prompting Clay to introduce a Senate resolution of censure.The year closed with Jackson girding for further battle over the Bank, pursuing schemes to pry the province of Texas loose from Mexico, and trying to stem rampant land frauds that his own Indian removal policy had unleashed against Creek Indians in Alabama. Unfolding these stories and many more, this volume offers an incomparable window into Andrew Jackson, his presidency, and America itself in 1833. --

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Appraisal of Bay Horse December 12 1783
11
Power of Attorney from Thomas Green August 26 1789
17
Accounts with Melling Woolley March 1July 1 21 2333
23
Arbitration Award February 23 81
27
From Thomas Hutchings October 2
32
Power of Attorney from Stockley Donelson September 10
38
1794
44
From Alexander Outlaw March 22
240
To Elizabeth Glasgow Donelson June 28
247
Masonic Minutes September 5
253
From Willie Blount December 7
259
From William Charles Cole Claiborne December 23
265
From Stockley Donelson January 17
271
Election Returns of Mero District for Major General
277
From Deaderick Tatum January 15
278

Agreements with John Overton May 12
46
From Morgan Brown October 30
52
Account of Freight Expenses from Philadelphia
58
From Robert Hays July 25
64
From Morgan Brown September 2
70
From William Cupples October 31
76
Deed for Hunters Hill March 10
84
Financial Statement April 26
90
From John Hinds July 23
96
From John Sevier December 12
102
1797
109
From Richard Harrison Janaury 17
115
Remarks before the United States House of Representatives
118
From Joshua Hadley October 22
151
Statement Regarding Land Frauds December 6
157
From Benjamin Rawlings c1798
160
To David Campbell December 29
165
From John Sevier January 12
166
To Robert Hays January 25
172
From John Sevier February 7
179
To John Adams March 5
185
From John Sevier April 5
191
From Mark Mitchell June 4
197
To William Blount June 24
198
To William Cocke June 25
204
Interim Appointment as Superior Court Judge September 20
210
1799
216
From George Michael Deaderick August 16
222
From Matthew Lyon February 28
228
To Robert Hays September 5
234
From Joseph Anderson March 20
283
From Stockley Donelson March 26
290
Memorandum for Payment of Debt Owed by John Overton May 27
296
Receipt from J S Bunting July 5
303
From George Michael Deaderick September 10
310
To John Overton September
313
From Samuel Jackson October 25
316
Account of Expenditures for Fruit Trees February 2
323
To Nathan Davidson April 18
329
From Thomas Augustine Claiborne July 14
335
From Sampson Williams July 20
346
From Isabella Fowler Butler August 3
350
From Martin Armstrong August 29
356
From Boggs Davidson September 19
365
From Seth Lewis October 8
371
To John Sevier October 9
377
To John Sevier October 11
384
From George Washington Campbell October 29
390
From Thomas J Vandyke November 5
392
From William Dickson November 20
398
From Samuel Meeker November 26
404
From Robert Hays December 15
410
Documents Relating to the Marriages of Rachel
423
Marriage License January 18 44
428
Calendar of Transactions and Agreements 17701803
429
Account Book Jacksons Nashville Store 1795
455
Controversy OctoberDecember 1803
489
INDEX
507
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