1815: Six militiamen, Andrew Jackson’s electoral dirty laundry

ExecutedToday.com ^ | February 21, 2015 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

If present-day electoral politics strike you as disreputable, take comfort in the knowledge that the Republic has survived its share of low-down, brass-knuckle campaigns in the past. The presidential election of 1828 might have been the very dirtiest.

This race pitted incumbent John Quincy Adams, the silver-spoon New Englander and son of Federalist founding father John Adams, against Andrew Jackson, the uncouth self-made westerner of Scotch peasant stock. Jackson was [in]famous for his duels, and his willingness to push the envelope on acceptable use of the military forces he commanded. Some foes saw him as an American Napoleon; some supporters, likewise.

One of the juiciest gobs of slung mud in that 1828 campaign involved Jackson’s actions as a Major General during the War of 1812, and specifically right around the Battle of New Orleans....At any rate, back in 1815, when army regulars were engaged on the east coast (or in the quixotic attempt to invade Canada), battle in the south and west pitted shaky American militia against British-allied Indian tribes in dirty, bloody ethnic cleansing.

Immediately prior to New Orleans, Jackson, west Tennessee’s biggest landowner and therefore its militia commander, took his forces south to Alabama, combined them with other militia, and routed the Creek, ending the Creek War subplot to the War of 1812. ‘Twas this conquest gave Jackson his “Old Hickory” nickname for controlling the Muscogee Creeks of Hickory Ground.

Cool beans for A.J., but not everyone on his team was equally excited....

[FreeperCell]

I booked marked this page. Don’t anyone move.......

[Smellin Salt]

You can take that creek to the bank, or the bank to the creek. I’m very confused

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I saw one of these coffin bills at the Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa OK about fifty years ago.

I started reading, and could not stop. Had to sit on the floor as the exhibit was rather low, but read the whole thing.

Very interesting! Dirty politics was in full swing back then.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

The effect which the execution of these men produced in the army was most salutary. Not a whisper was afterwards heard of the mutiny which had threatened General Winchester’s command. Subordination was restored, and all the troops in the service were willing, and did without a murmur perform their duty. Mutiny and desertion were no longer heard of in that part of the military service.

It’s again time for strategic public executions. Election thieves, corrupt judges, any embedded Chinese agents, and especially the planners and enablers behind them, no matter their skin color, and all other traitors deserve this fate.

[ohioman]

Jackson was always my favorite Democrat. He saved New Orleans and helped get Florida into the Union. What historians always leave out is that it was the massacre of hundreds of men, women, and children at Fort Mims, AL by the Creek Indians that set off Jackson’s Indian wars down South. In fact, he defeated these same Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Of course, kids growing up in Alabama (like me) are probably the few who are ever even told the real history. The modern day scum act like Jackson’s malice toward some Indians came out of thin air. I say this as someone who has some Cherokee in his veins. However, my Cherokee do not count as Indians (according to modern progressive scum) because they sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

I wasn’t aware of Ft. Mims. Found this list of massacres, both of and by Indians. The numbers aren’t great when compared to Indians who died from illness or European wars. Broken treaties, which may have been part of the massacres, are worse in my opinion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America

[ohioman]

This gives the motivation behind the Indian wars in the South.