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139 His casket was taken … interred beside Abigail and John Adams Ibid., 415–16.
140 “preside over the destinies” Papers, V, 188.
141 considered for Van Buren’s Cabinet Cheathem, Old Hickory’s Nephew, 189.
142 accepted President Tyler’s appointment Ibid., 171.
143 “All is safe” Ibid., 207.
144 American envoy to Prussia Ibid., 208.
145 edited the Washington Union Ibid., 262–78.
146 vice president on the Know Nothing ticket Ibid., 297.
147 Andrew junior killed himself in a hunting accident Remini, Jackson, III, 145, and supporting note.
148 “A great change” Laura Donelson to John Donelson, February 22, 18[?], Mrs. John Lawrence Merritt Collection. The events described in the letter take place in 1856 (Cheathem, Old Hickory’s Nephew, 301).
149 “Uncle Andrew [Donelson] was up here” William Donelson, Jr., to John Donelson, April 29, 1859, Mrs. John Lawrence Merritt Collection.
150 he moved from support for the Union Cheathem, Old Hickory’s Nephew, 316–19.
151 died on Monday, June 26, 1871 Ibid., 328.
Epilogue: He Still Lives
1 streets of mud and ice I am indebted to Curtis Mann, the city historian of Springfield, Illinois, for describing the layout and conditions of the city during the winter of 1861.
2 his brother-in-law’s brick general store Emanuel Hertz, ed., The Hidden Lincoln: From the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon (New York, 1940), 118.
3 need some “works” to consult William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik, Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (New York, 1917), II, 188.
4 “I looked for a long list” Ibid.
5 small, sparsely furnished Interview with Curtis Mann, the city historian of Springfield, Illinois.
6 Lincoln looked to Jackson With the admittedly large exception of the integrity of the Union, Lincoln had long been a Henry Clay Whig who opposed Jackson on most issues. In the crisis of the Civil War, however, the sixteenth president saw virtue in the seventh. A portrait of Jackson hung in Lincoln’s White House office, and there are some echoes of Jackson’s proclamation in Lincoln’s first inaugural. The Constitution, Jackson had said, was “the perpetual bond of our Union.” Scribbling across a sheet of paper, Lincoln wrote, “I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these states is perpetual.” Speaking more in sorrow than in anger, Jackson had said: “I call upon you in the language of truth, and with the feelings of a Father, to retrace your steps.” In the winter’s light, Lincoln urged care and caution. “Do not rush to arms,” Lincoln said, “in hot haste.” Jackson had said: “Fellow citizens! The momentous case is before you.” Lincoln wrote: “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.” For Jackson’s proclamation, see Messages, II, 1203–19; for Lincoln’s first inaugural, see Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 215–24.
7 “The right of a state to secede” John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History (New York, 1886), III, 248.
8 “A majority held in restraint” Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 220.
9 “Jackson had many faults” Alfred Bushnell Hart and Herbert Ronald Ferleger, eds., Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia (New York, 1941), 272.
10 approved of Jackson’s “instinct” Theodore Roosevelt, Letters and Speeches (New York, 2004), 109.
11 “The course I followed” Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders: An Autobiography (New York, 2004), 620.
12 a visit to the Hermitage Mary French Caldwell, “Another Breakfast at the Hermitage: Part II: 1934,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 26 (Fall 1967), 249–50.
13 “bowed gallantly” Ibid.
14 ramps had been installed Ibid.
15 he chose to stay on his feet Ibid.
16 some occasions were so important to him A similar one occurred when he met with Winston Churchill at sea off Newfoundland in August 1941; for a church parade aboard the Prince of Wales, Roosevelt walked to his seat on deck. See my Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (New York, 2003), 107–8, for an account of the moment.
17 “Responsibility lay heavily” Radio Address from the USS Potomac for Jackson Day Dinners, March 29, 1941. See John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, Calif.: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database). http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=16095.
18 with a “rugged, courageous spirit” Ibid.
19 Eddie Jacobson, Truman’s partner Truman, Where the Buck Stops, 372–73. Sheepishly recalling Jacobson’s complaint in retirement, Truman said: “I’ll admit that I’ve probably read more about Jackson than anyone else in the country. It took us a long time to pay off our creditors, too. It was 1935 before they were all settled and taken care of” (ibid.).
20 spent his childhood soaking up David McCullough, Truman (New York, 1992), 43. Jackson and Robert E. Lee were Truman’s longtime heroes. To Merle Miller, Truman also claimed that his father, John Anderson Truman, was “an Andrew Jackson descendant, you understand, and those people are all fighters” (Merle Miller, Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman [New York, 1973], 67–68).
21 commissioned a statue McCullough, Truman, 180. Also see Miller, Plain Speaking, 135, and Robert H. Ferrell, Harry S. Truman: A Life (Columbia, Mo., 1994), 112.
22 traveled to the Hermitage McCullough, Truman, 180. Also see Miller, Plain Speaking, 135.
23 put a small bronze McCullough, Truman, 606
24 “He wanted sincerely” Truman, Where the Buck Stops, 295. Truman did acknowledge Jackson’s greatest failing, which was that his desire to help people did not extend to the original inhabitants of the land. “That’s the only thing I hold against old Jackson … the fact that he didn’t do anything to help the Indians when he was president. The Seminoles and the Choctaws were terribly mistreated when Jackson was president, and I do hold that against him” (ibid., 280).
25 “helped once again to make it clear” Ibid., 303.
26 When Truman lit the National Community Christmas Tree The New York Times, December 25, 1945.
27 “It is well” John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. Santa Barbara, Calif.: University of California (hosted), Gerhard Peters (database). http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=12250. The speech was broadcast nationally beginning at 5:15 P.M. on Christmas Eve.
28 His tombstone reads only Author observation, The Hermitage.
29 slave quarters are near Jackson’s tomb Ibid.
30 “The victor in a hundred battles” Dusenbery, ed., Monument to Jackson, 70.
31 whose bust Author observation, The Hermitage.
32 “The moral of the great events” Dusenbery, ed., Monument to Jackson, 46.
33 a sparkling, unusually warm Washington Union, January 9, 1853.
34 Clark Mills’s equestrian statue Ibid.
35 A vast procession Ibid.
36 Blair had drafted Douglas’s remarks FPB, 176.
37 “Nobly did the widowed mother” AJETH, III, 566.
38 often sat in Pew 54 For the history of, and details about, Saint John’s Church, see www.stjohns-dc.org/article.php?id=48. I am grateful to the rector, the Reverend Luis Leon, and to the parish’s executive director of operations, Hayden G. Bryan, for their assistance.
39 “He still lives” AJETH, III, 573.
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