item: #1 of 6 id: 10858 author: None title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 2, part 3: Andrew Jackson, 1st term date: None words: 107228 flesch: 48 summary: All persons, though United States officers, are liable to a poll tax by the States within which they reside. Actuated by this view of the subject, I informed the Indians inhabiting parts of Georgia and Alabama that their attempt to establish an independent government would not be countenanced by the Executive of the United States, and advised them to emigrate beyond the Mississippi or submit to the laws of those States. keywords: act; acts; andrew jackson; authority; bank; carolina; case; character; citizens; congress; consideration; constitution; country; duties; duty; effect; foreign; general; government; herewith; house; indians; interest; laws; means; people; power; present; president; public; report; representatives; resolution; right; secretary; senate; south; subject; time; treaty; union; united states; vessels; war; washington cache: 10858.txt plain text: 10858.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 11202 author: None title: A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) date: None words: 160091 flesch: 45 summary: Great is the stake placed in our hands; great is the responsibility which must rest upon the people of the United States. On your assembling to perform the high trusts which the people of the United States have confided to you, of legislating for their common welfare, it gives me pleasure to congratulate you upon the happy condition of our beloved country. keywords: act; andrew; bank; bill; character; citizens; communication; congress; consideration; constitution; country; department; duties; duty; executive; foreign; france; french; general; government; honor; house; interests; jackson; law; measures; message; minister; money; new; people; power; present; president; public; question; report; representatives; resolution; right; secretary; senate; session; state government; states bank; subject; time; treasury; treaty; united states; war; washington cache: 11202.txt plain text: 11202.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 11379 author: Banks, Nancy Huston title: Round Anvil Rock: A Romance date: None words: 89095 flesch: 85 summary: Is it the same that we find in the Bible--making great men and wise ones do such wild things? Good men as well as bad must go, I suppose, if wars must be fought. keywords: alston; boy; cedar; coming; country; dark; david; day; dear; doctor; eyes; face; father; forest; good; hand; head; heart; house; judge; life; look; love; man; men; mind; moment; night; orin; paul; philip; place; pressley; priest; river; room; ruth; things; thought; time; toby; way; white; wilderness; william cache: 11379.txt plain text: 11379.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 13009 author: Ogg, Frederic Austin title: The Reign of Andrew Jackson: A Chronicle of the Frontier in Politics date: None words: 53260 flesch: 60 summary: But the man who really made Jackson President was his near neighbor and his inseparable companion of later years, William B. Lewis. In his letter of acceptance Van Buren met all expectations by declaring his purpose to tread generally in the footsteps of President Jackson. keywords: adams; administration; andrew jackson; bank; buren; cabinet; calhoun; campaign; candidate; carolina; clay; congress; country; day; days; florida; friends; general; general jackson; georgia; government; governor; great; hayne; house; indians; jackson; john; lands; life; man; men; national; new; nullification; orleans; party; people; president; public; secretary; senate; set; south; state; support; tariff; tennessee; time; union; united; united states; van; war; washington; webster; west; white; years cache: 13009.txt plain text: 13009.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 31068 author: Brown, William Garrott title: Andrew Jackson date: None words: 27580 flesch: 67 summary: In fact, unless we understand President Jackson himself, we cannot possibly understand his administration; for President Jackson, though he was now somewhat subdued in manner, and By the Eternal was not quite so often on his lips, was still Jackson of the duelling pistol and Jackson of the sword; and he was also still the Jackson whom Benton saw with the lamb and the child between his knees. President Jackson refused to believe them, and became Mrs. Eaton's champion. keywords: adams; american; andrew jackson; bank; british; calhoun; clay; country; enemy; friends; general; government; indians; jackson; man; men; new; orleans; party; people; president; public; states; tennessee; time; united; war; washington; way; years cache: 31068.txt plain text: 31068.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 741 author: Benton, Thomas Hart title: Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate on the Expunging Resolution date: None words: 2970 flesch: 55 summary: It was not a vain boast, or an idle assumption, but was the result of a deep conviction of the injustice done President Jackson, and a thorough reliance upon the justice of the American people. I hold that it ought to be binding and obligatory upon us; and that, not only upon the principles of representative government, which require obedience to the known will of the people, but also in conformity to the principles upon which the proceeding against President Jackson was conducted when the sentence against him was adopted. keywords: administration; jackson; law; people; president cache: 741.txt plain text: 741.txt