This eighth volume of Andrew Jacksons papers presents more than five hundred documents, many appearing here for the first time, from a core year in Jacksons tumultuous presidency. They include Jacksons 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 ...
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This eighth volume of Andrew Jacksons papers presents more than five hundred documents, many appearing here for the first time, from a core year in Jacksons tumultuous presidency. They include Jacksons 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 the Mississippi 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 latters conduct as Secretary of War during Jacksons 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 Clays American System. In July, Jacksons 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 re-election campaign in 1832. Meanwhile the sex scandal surrounding Peggy Eaton, wife of the Secretary of War, lurked throughout, dividing Jacksons Cabinet, sundering his own family and household, and threatening to wreck the administration. Embracing all these stories and many more, this volume offers an i
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