[DiogenesLamp]

Why would a Southern Democrat president do that, at all?

Your argument is not with me, it is with history, because that is what happened.

I will point out that the first Southern Democrat President threatened to kill John Calhoun if he tried to secede from the Union.

"John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body."

This was in the 1830s.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Sounds like Jackson, to me.