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To: Delacon
I assume you have been to the Hermitage. Very nice property and that was just part of his holdings.

I can’t see how you can honestly believe that a fellow who:

1) got slashed across the face by a saber when a Brit officer demanded he shine his boots in in Waxhaw

2) fought Indians for 2 decades to quell them and allow that area to be settled by whites and for guys like him specifically to go and exploit that land.

3) owned over 150 slaves at the Hermitage

4) killed a fair number of folks over personal disputes without qualms

How a man like that would allow the Radical Republicans like Sumner and Stevens to simply take his property and destroy his assets and profitability and then do nothing because once he had battle Calhoun over tariffs....another sort of matter entirely.

I believe that had he been alive that yes, he would have fought against the Democrats splitting into thirds and against secession and preferred a solution but I doubt he would have given up his way of life without a fight.

29 posted on 09/18/2007 8:04:22 AM PDT by wardaddy (Pigpen lives!!!!)
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To: wardaddy

Well I think Jackson was a “whats mine is mine” kinda guy also and that from his position as chief executive he would have carried that pov to conclude states trying to leave the union were stealing his people from his union.


31 posted on 09/18/2007 9:03:42 AM PDT by Delacon (When in doubt, ask a liberal and do the opposite.)
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