[DoodleDawg]

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

Almost certainly apocryphal. But regarding the secession crisis Jackson did say, "But if one drop of blood is shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can get my hands on to the first tree I can find."

[central_va]

"But if one drop of blood is shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can get my hands on to the first tree I can find."

Can you show us the law or Constitutional article/section making secession illegal. Thanks.

[DiogenesLamp]

Almost certainly apocryphal. But regarding the secession crisis Jackson did say, "But if one drop of blood is shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can get my hands on to the first tree I can find."

And Jackson was the sort of man that no one would take lightly. He had demonstrated again and again that you trifle with him at your own peril!

There is much to admire about him, but I still do not grasp why he did the Indians so dirty. Did he have no empathy for them and their lives after having spent so much time with the Seminole?

I still consider that an ugly mark on the man. He shouldn't have done it.