[re_nortex]

I get a mixed message here on FR about Old Hickory from some astute FReepers. There was a thread recently depicting Jackson in a very bad light stemming from him being a Democrat. See the multipart series titled “The ugly history of the Democrat Party”. From the Texas board, you know the respect I have for you (and your impressive command of the vocabulary). So how to you size up Andrew Jackson?

[lentulusgracchus]

On a real computer, not an Android keypad. Better reply later. 😆

[BroJoeK]

re nortex: "I get a mixed message here on FR about Old Hickory from some astute FReepers."

There's nothing "mixed" about the message from many FReepers regarding "Ole Hickory" -- he is loathed and despised by our Lost Causers second only to Lincoln himself, and for understandable reasons.

Jackson was the last of the Founding generation to become President, and despite his birth in the Carolinas and life in Tennessee, Jackson was first and last a Union man.
Whether the issue was tariffs, nullification or secession, Jackson came down on the side of Union, telling South Carolinians in 1830:

"please give my compliments to my friends in your State and say to them, that if a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach."

For that, our Lost Causers leave no tree unhung with effigies of Jackson and Lincoln...

[the OlLine Rebel]

Just as lots of us do not like Lincoln. Must have missed those threads.