Research Catalog

Title

The papers of Andrew Jackson / Sam B. Smith and Harriet Chappell Owsley, editors ; Robert V. Remini, consulting editor ; Sharon C. Macpherson, associate editor ; Linda D. Keeton, staff assistant.

Author

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Publication

• Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1980-]
• ©1980

Supplementary Content

• Book review (H-Net)
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Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Location

• Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

Call Number

• IAW (Jackson) 80-3099

Library Has

• 1-7,10,12

Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Sam B., 1929-2003
• Owsley, Harriet Chappell, 1901-1999
• Macpherson, Sharon C.
• Remini, Robert V. (Robert Vincent), 1921-2013
• Moser, Harold D.
• Feller, Daniel, 1950-
• Roth, David H.
• Hoemann, George H., 1952-
• Coens, Thomas, 1974-
• Moss, Laura-Eve
• Alexander, Erik B.
• Crawford, Aaron

Description

volumes <1-12> : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "Andrew Jackson is one of the most critical and controversial figures in American history. A dominant actor on the American scene in the period between the Revolution and Civil War, he stamped his name first on a mass political movement and then an era. At the same time Jackson's ascendancy accelerated the dispossession and death of Native Americans and spurred the expansion of slavery. 'The Papers of Andrew Jackson' is a project to collect and publish Jackson's entire extant literary record. The project is now producing a series of seventeen volumes that will bring Jackson's most important papers to the public in easily readable form."--
• V. 6. This sixth volume of The Papers of Andrew Jackson documents the election on Andrew Jackson, the first westerner and the last veteran of the American Revolution, to the presidency. The four years of this volume chronicle the presidential campaign of 1828. Jackson, winner of the popular vote in 1824 but loser of the election, was once again the reluctant candidate, called into service by the voice of the voters. The campaign, one of the longest in American history, pitted Jackson against the incumbent John Quincy Adams; it was also one of the dirtiest campaigns in American history. The brunt of the mudslinging was aimed at Jackson, and it is covered in detail in this volume. Every aspect of the public and private life of the fifty-eight-year-old former major general in the United States Army came under scrutiny, and in both his opponents found him deficient. According to his detractors, he lacked the moral principles, the temperament, the education, and the family background requisite for a president of the United States. In sum, Jackson resembled the devil incarnate, to use his own words. The mudslinging left Jackson livid, anxious for retribution but constrained by the cause in which he was engaged. The presidential campaign of 1828, in the minds of Jackson and his supporters, was for the cause of truth and democracy against corrupt, self-seeking politicians, an aristocracy of power built upon bargains and dubious political alliances dedicated to its perpetuation in office. The four years covered in this volume were some of the most trying in Jackson s life, but the one event that hurt Jackson the most was the death of his wife. Until his dying day, Jackson contended that her death had been hastened by the slanders of his opponents in the campaign. As great as the loss was for him personally, Jackson nonetheless rejoiced in the results of the election for, in his eyes, the voice of the people had finally been heard. Liberty, not power, had triumphed. Reform was at hand, and retribution would surely follow.
• V. 7. With this seventh volume, The Papers of Andrew Jackson enters the heart of Jackson's career: his tumultuous two terms as president of the United States. The year 1829 began with Jackson fresh from a triumphant victory over incumbent John Quincy Adams in the 1828 campaign, yet mourning the sudden death of his beloved wife, Rachel. In January, having hired an overseer for his Hermitage plantation and arranged for Rachel's tomb, he left Tennessee for Washington. Jackson assumed the presidency with two objectives already fixed in mind: purging the federal bureaucracy of recreant officeholders and removing the southern Indian tribes westward beyond state authority. By year's end he had added two more: purchasing Texas and destroying the Bank of the United States. But meanwhile he found himself diverted, and nearly consumed, by the notorious Peggy Eaton affair--a burgeoning scandal which pitted the president, his Secretary of War John Eaton, and the latter's vivacious wife against the Washington guardians of feminine propriety. This first presidential volume reveals all these stories, and many more, in a depth never seen before. It presents full texts of more than four hundred documents, most printed for the first time. Gathered from a vast array of libraries, archives, and individual owners, they include Jackson's intimate exchanges with family and friends, private notes and musings, and formative drafts of public addresses. Administrative papers range from presidential pardons to military promotions to plans for discharging the public debt. They exhibit Jackson's daily conduct of the executive office in close and sometimes startling detail, and cast new light on such controversial matters as Indian removal and political patronage. Included also are letters to the president from people in every corner of the country and every walk of life: Indian delegations presenting grievances, distraught mothers pleading help for wayward sons, aged veterans begging pensions, politicians offering advice and seeking jobs. Embracing a broad spectrum of actors and events, this volume offers an incomparable window not only into Jackson and his presidency, but into America itself in 1829.
• V. 8. This eighth volume of Andrew Jackson s papers presents more than five hundred documents, many appearing here for the first time, from a core year in Jackson s tumultuous presidency. They include Jackson s 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 latter s conduct as secretary of war during Jackson s 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 Clay s American System. In July, Jackson s 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 reelection campaign in 1832. Meanwhile the sex scandal surrounding Peggy Eaton, wife of the secretary of war, lurked throughout, dividing Jackson s cabinet, sundering his own family and household, and threatening to wreck the administration. Embracing all these stories and many more, this volume offers an incomparable window not only into Andrew Jackson and his presidency but into 1830s America itself.
• V. 9. This volume presents more than five hundred original documents, many newly discovered, from Andrew Jackson s third presidential year. They include Jackson s private memoranda, intimate family letters, and correspondence with government and military officers, diplomats, Indians, political friends and foes, and ordinary citizens throughout the country. In 1831 Jackson finally cleared his contentious Cabinet, reluctantly accepting the resignations of Martin Van Buren and John Eaton and demanding that the other members follow. But in the aftermath, animosities among them boiled over, as Eaton sought duels with outgoing secretaries Samuel Ingham and John Berrien. The affair ended with gangs of armed high-government officers stalking each other in the Washington streets, and with Ingham publicly accusing Jackson of countenancing a plot to assassinate him. Meanwhile, Jackson pursued his feud with Vice-President John C. Calhoun, whom he had come to view as the diabolical manipulator of all his enemies. Enlisting a favorite Supreme Court justice to gather evidence, Jackson crafted an exposition, intended for publication, that leveled nearly fantastic charges against Calhoun and others. Through all this, the business of government ploughed on. Jackson pursued his drive to remove the Cherokees and other Indians west of the Mississippi and to undercut tribal leaders who dared resist. To squelch sectional controversy, Jackson moved to retire the national debt and reduce the tariff, while reiterating his ban on nullification and his opposition to the Bank of the United States. Nat Turner's Virginia slave revolt in August drew a quick administration response. By year s end, the dust over the Cabinet implosion was settling, as Jackson prepared to stand for reelection against his old nemesis Henry Clay. Embracing all these stories and many more, this volume offers an incomparable window not only into Andrew Jackson and his presidency but into America itself in 1831.
• V. 10. This volume presents more than four hundred documents from Andrew Jackson s fourth presidential year. It includes private memoranda, intimate family letters, drafts of official messages, and correspondence with government and military officers, diplomats, Indians, political friends and foes, and ordinary citizens throughout the country. The year 1832 began with Jackson still pursuing his feud with Vice President John C. Calhoun, whom Jackson accused of secretly siding against him in the 1818 controversy over Jackson s Seminole campaign in Florida. The episode ended embarrassingly for Jackson when a key witness, called on to prove his charges, instead directly contradicted them. Indian removal remained a preoccupation for Jackson. The Choctaws began emigrating westward, the Creeks and Chickasaws signed but then immediately protested removal treaties, and the Cherokees won what proved to be an empty victory against removal in the Supreme Court. Illinois Indians mounted armed resistance in the Black Hawk War. In midsummer, a cholera epidemic swept the country, and Jackson was urged to proclaim a day of fasting and prayer. He refused, saying it would intermingle church and state. A bill to recharter the Bank of the United States passed Congress in July, and Jackson vetoed it with a ringing message that became the signature document of his presidency. In November, Jackson, with new running mate Martin Van Buren, won triumphant reelection over Henry Clay. But only days later, South Carolina nullified the federal tariff law and began preparing for armed resistance. Jackson answered with an official proclamation that disunion by armed force is treason. The year closed with Jackson immersed in plans to suppress nullification and destroy the Bank of the United States. Embracing all these stories and many more, this volume offers an incomparable window into Andrew Jackson, his presidency, and America itself in 1832.
• V. 11. This volume presents full annotated text of five hundred documents from Andrew Jackson's fifth presidential year. They include his private memoranda, intimate family letters, presidential message drafts, and correspondence with government and military officers, diplomats, Indian leaders, political friends and foes, and citizens throughout the country.The year 1833 began with a crisis in South Carolina, where a state convention had declared the federal tariff law null and void and pledged resistance by armed force if necessary. Jackson countered by rallying public opinion against the nullifiers, quietly positioning troops and warships, and procuring a "force bill" from Congress to compel collection of customs duties. The episode ended peaceably after South Carolina accepted a compromise tariff devised by Jackson's arch-rival Henry Clay. But Clay's surprise cooperation with South Carolina's John C. Calhoun foretold a new opposition coalition against Jackson.With nullification checked, Jackson embarked in June on a triumphal tour to cement his newfound popularity in the North. Ecstatic crowds greeted him in Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, and Harvard awarded him a degree. But Jackson's fragile health broke under the strain, forcing him to cut the tour short. Meanwhile Jackson pursued his campaign against the Bank of the United States, whose recharter he had vetoed in 1832. Charging the Bank with political meddling and corruption, Jackson determined to cripple it by removing federal deposits to state banks. But Treasury secretary William John Duane refused either to give the necessary order or resign. In September Jackson dismissed him and installed Roger Taney to implement the removal. Jackson's bold assumption of authority energized supporters but outraged opponents, prompting Clay to introduce a Senate resolution of censure.The year closed with Jackson girding for further battle over the Bank, pursuing schemes to pry the province of Texas loose from Mexico, and trying to stem rampant land frauds that his own Indian removal policy had unleashed against Creek Indians in Alabama. Unfolding these stories and many more, this volume offers an incomparable window into Andrew Jackson, his presidency, and America itself in 1833.
• V. 12. This volume presents more than five hundred annotated original documents from Andrew Jackson's sixth presidential year. They include his private memoranda, intimate family letters, official messages, and correspondence with government and military officers, diplomats, Indian leaders, political friends and foes, and plain citizens throughout the country. The year 1834 began with Jackson battling the United States Senate. Pursuing his campaign against the federally chartered Bank of the United States, Jackson in 1833 had installed Roger Taney as interim Treasury secretary to transfer the government's deposits to selected state-chartered "pet" banks. The Bank retaliated by curtailing its business, setting off a commercial crisis and a political frenzy. In 1834 the Senate, controlled by the new opposition Whig Party led by Jackson's old nemeses Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, rejected a slew of Jackson's nominees for office, including Taney, and adopted an unprecedented (and still unparalleled) resolution of censure against Jackson himself. Jackson returned a scathing protest, which the Senate rejected. Meanwhile the administration struggled to implement its "experiment" of conducting government finances through state banks. Throughout the year Jackson pursued his aim of compelling eastern Indians to remove west of the Mississippi. In May the Chickasaws signed a removal treaty. But brazen frauds complicated the administration's scheme to induce individual Creeks to emigrate from Alabama, while the Cherokees, led by Principal Chief John Ross, stood fast in resistance. In June some unauthorized dissident Cherokees signed a removal treaty, but it died in the Senate. In 1834 Jackson continued his longstanding effort to pry the province of Texas loose from Mexico, while the U.S. hurtled toward confrontation with France over French failure to pay an indemnity due under an 1831 treaty. Other matters engaging Jackson included corruption scandals in the Post Office Department and at Mississippi land offices, fractious disputes over rank and seniority among Army and Navy officers, and a fire that gutted Jackson's Hermitage home in Tennessee. Unfolding these stories and many more, this volume offers a revelatory window into Andrew Jackson, his presidency, and America itself in 1834.

Uniform Title

Works

Alternative Title

Works

Subject

• Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
• 1829-1837
• Presidents > United States > Correspondence
• Politics and government
• Presidents
• United States > Politics and government > 1829-1837 > Sources
• United States

Genre/Form

• Personal correspondence.
• Sources.
• Correspondence.

Note

• Volume 2 edited by Harold D. Moser and Sharon Macpherson.
• Volume 5 edited by Harold D. Moser, David H. Roth, and George H. Hoemann.
• Volume 6 edited by Harold D. Moser, J. Clint Clifft and assistant editor Wyatt C. Wells.
• Volume 7 edited by Daniel Feller, Harold D. Moser, Laura-Eve Moss, and Thomas Coens.
• Volume 8 edited by Daniel Feller, Thomas Coens, and Laura-Eve Moss.
• Volume 9 edited by Daniel Feller, Laura-Eve Moss, Thomas Coens, and Erik B. Alexander.
• Volumes 10-11 edited by Daniel Feller, Thomas Coens, and Laura-Eve Moss.
• Volume 12 edited by Daniel Feller, Thomas Coens, Laura-Eve Moss, and Aaron Crawford.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Volume I: 1770-1803 -- Volume II: 1804-1813 -- Volume III: 1814-1815 -- Volume IV: 1816-1820 -- Volume V: 1825-1828 -- Volume VI: 1825-1828 -- Volume VII: 1829 -- Volume VIII: 1830 -- Volume IX: 1831 -- Volume X: 1832 -- Volume XI: 1833 -- Volume XII: 1834

Call Number

IAW (Jackson) 80-3099

ISBN

• 0870492195
• 9780870492198
• 0870494414
• 9780870494413
• 0870496506
• 9780870496509
• 0870497782
• 9780870497780
• 0870498975
• 9780870498978
• 1572331747
• 9781572331747
• 9781572335936
• 1572335939
• 9781572337152
• 157233715X
• 9781621900047
• 1621900045
• 9781621902676
• 1621902676
• 9781621905387
• 1621905381
• 9781621907558
• 1621907554

LCCN

79015078

OCLC

5029597

Author

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845, author.

Title

The papers of Andrew Jackson / Sam B. Smith and Harriet Chappell Owsley, editors ; Robert V. Remini, consulting editor ; Sharon C. Macpherson, associate editor ; Linda D. Keeton, staff assistant.

Publisher

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1980-]

Copyright Date

©1980

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chronological Term

1829-1837

Added Author

Smith, Sam B., 1929-2003, editor.

Owsley, Harriet Chappell, 1901-1999, editor.

Macpherson, Sharon C., editor.

Remini, Robert V. (Robert Vincent), 1921-2013, editor.

Moser, Harold D., editor.

Feller, Daniel, 1950- editor.

Roth, David H., editor.

Hoemann, George H., 1952- editor.

Coens, Thomas, 1974- editor.

Moss, Laura-Eve, editor.

Alexander, Erik B., editor.

Crawford, Aaron, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845. Papers of Andrew Jackson. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©1980-<c2007> (OCoLC)682085501

Research Call Number

IAW (Jackson) 80-3099