Andrew Jackson Quotes
Their object is disunion.
Jackson, Andrew. Letter to Rev. Andrew J. Crawford. 1 May 1833. Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, edited by John Spencer Bassett, vol. 5, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1931, p. 72.
Compare Mark 3:25, above, and Abraham Lincoln's use of the phrase in one of his most famous speeches.
This is a variant of the famous Lincoln quotation, {619494}. Houston did not use the word “house” as had Lincoln but surely, as did Lincoln, was familiar with The Book of Mathew {606727}. Houston however gave his speech BEFORE Lincoln.
The debate had come to an impasse over the issue of voting and taxation by state equally or proportional to the population. Witherspoon warned of the consequence of there being no agreement on some form of unity.
This description of the Civil War had been widely quoted in that it conveys the inevitability of hostilities between North and South over slavery. Hundreds of compromises, arguments, enticements, were made since the founding of the United State but none or all of them could prevent the conflict over such a basic fundamental as slavery. Note that he coined the term before the war actually took place. The conflict was raging politically, journalistically and culturally.
Andrew Jackson was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. An expansionist president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union.
