5 thoughts on “More Electoral History”

  1. Always wonder what Tom and Andy would say if they showed up to the Annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner the Demicommies have every year. That is, if they could even get in the door. Of course, it might surprise some SEIU thug “Security Guard” how hard it would be to push Andy away from the event. Fatally hard, I would think.

  3. A painter named Lawrence tried to assassinate Jackson. The first pistol’s percussion cap fired–but the charge did not fire. By the time he pulled his second pistol out:

    For the first time in our history the hand of the assassin was raised against a President on January 30, 1835, when a painter named Lawrence attempted to shoot Andrew Jackson. Lawrence stood on the portico of the Capitol, near one of the columns. Jackson, leaning on the arm of his Secretary of the Treasury, came within two yards of him. Lawrence drew a pistol from under his coat, raised his arm and fired point blank at Jackson’s breast. The percussion cap exploded with a great noise, but the pistol was not fired. Taking another pistol from his coat, the assassin was about to fire when the President sprang upon him, brandishing his cane. The assassin then fled, followed hotly by the aged Executive, but was captured. The pistols, when taken from him, were found to be excellently made, well charged with the best kind of powder, and crammed almost to the muzzle with balls. Their failure to explode was inexplicable and excited the religious fervor of the people as a providential miracle.

    Lawrence was tried, but being manifestly insane was committed to an insane asylum where he died thirty or forty years later.

  4. You kind of have to love that not only did he ward off the assassin with his cane, he went chasing after the the guy :)

  5. Jackson’s mother told him that if anyone slandered him, don’t sue: take care of the matter yourself. Hence, Jackson’s duel over allegations that his wife was not properly divorced when they married. And as much as Jackson was a proto-Tea Partier (right down to sometimes crackpot notions about “banksters,”) he is also the guy responsible for the Trail of Tears, because Jackson was a fierce Indian-hater, and was trying to get the support of the newly formed Democratic majority of white male voters–who saw the Cherokees as occupying land that properly belonged to whites.

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