To: justshutupandtakeit; labard1
Though he sympathized with their complaints about the tariff, the South Carolina-born President Andrew Jackson warned secessionists in 1830 that: "If one drop of blood be shed in defiance of the laws of the United States, I will hanfg the first man of them I can get my hands on to the first tree I can find."
Virginia-born President Zachary Taylor threatened much the same thing in 1850.
Tennessee-born Vice President Andrew Jackson called for the executions of "Jefferson Davis and his pirate crew: [his words]
236 posted on
07/22/2003 2:11:49 PM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
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To: Grand Old Partisan
Tennessee-born Vice President Andrew Jackson called for the executions of "Jefferson Davis and his pirate crew: [his words]Probably you mean Andrew Johnson. Andrew Jackson died in 1845, but maybe his ghost came after Jefferson Davis.
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