Andrew Quotes
The words are those of President Andrew Jackson. See {604550}. After occupying New Orleans, General Butler infuriated the Confederate Sympathizers with this act. Jackson was the hero of the Battle of New Orleans and an unapologetic slave owner. The Southerners had erected a magnificent statue of their hero Jackson on horseback in a major section of the city. Butler, then ordered that the Jackson quotation be chiseled in the stone base. The townspeople were furious that this Union General would make up words and attribute them to Jackson; however, when they finally realized that Jackson had actually said those words they felt even more humiliated. There are still a few Southernors who consider this terrible insult to the Confederacy, and of course that is just what Butler intended.
FDR even admitted that very wealthy men and corporations controlled most U. S. governments including the administration of his own political party. Roosevelt did a great deal to improve the situation but by the latter years of the 20th century, private financial entities gained back much of the influence and control. The result was the Meltdown of 2008 and the Great Recession, where another set of regulations and laws (Dodd-Frank) was made law by the Obama Administration. However, the financial corporations still had enormous political influence as a result of unlimited campaign contributions to politicians and unlimited lobbying.
The treaty turned over the Cherokee Tribal Lands and agreed that the tribe would relocate to Oklahoma and obtain new lands there. The vast majority of the Cherokee chose to reject this treaty and insist that the Federal Government adhere to the Previous Treaty that was in force and maintain the Cherokee on their traditional land in the East. Ridge and some of his group made a lot of money and obtained much attention from the whites pushing for removal—President Andrew Jackson for example. But Jackson, using soldiers and force, pushed the Cherokee on the “Trail of Tears” at gun and bayonet point. After the Cherokee had arrived in Oklahoma, and Ridge and his family had set up in rather elegant quarters, he was assassinated by the other Cherokee’s after having been found guilty under traditional Cherokee laws.
This was surprising for a man who owned slaves all his life.
As Crockett was a Democrat, party loyalty required him to support the Democrat president.
President Andrew Jackson was the first President who went after them. The mechanism of these men has been bribes, much more common in early and middle America than today where campaign contributions are a legalized way of the wealthy having more influence on the control of the country. The other way was by the control of the money supply, the markets and banking. Jackson would not go along with allowing a small number of very wealthy bankers to control the monetary policy of the country. In modern times, there are a number of left and right wingers who see the private Federal Reserve Bank and its secrecy as an example of what Roosevelt was referring to,
Jackson ignored the decision of the Supreme Court and forced at bayonet point the Indians in the South East to leave their land and relocate to Oklahoma in what has been known as “the trail of tears”.
Ms. Andrew Jackson’s divorce from her first husband was not done following all the legal requirements of the time. Technically, she was therefore a bigamist and an adulteress at the same time. While most Americans had no problem with this, there was then as there has been ever since a small, religiously driven, cultural conservative movement who objected to a President who was living with an adulteress in bigamy. Hammond was one of them. Just as Bill Clinton was very popular despite his sexual, moral transgressions, so was Jackson. However the conservatives of Washington DC made her life socially miserable.
The President was Andrew Jackson who Crockett had initially supported.
