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Jackson was a slaveowner, Why do you think he would have sided with the North?
He addresses secession pretty specifically in his 1832 proclamation:
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... each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation, and any injury to that unity is not only a breach which would result from the contravention of a compact, but it is an offense against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation because it would be a solecism to contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connection with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offense. Secession, like any other revolutionary act, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right, is confounding the meaning of terms, and can only be done through gross error, or to deceive those who are willing to assert a right, but would pause before they made a revolution, or incur the penalties consequent upon a failure.
Because the Union was formed by compact, it is said the parties to that compact may, when they feel themselves aggrieved, depart from it; but it is precisely because it is a compact that they cannot....
A government, on the contrary, always has a sanction, express or implied; and, in our case, it is both necessarily implied and expressly given. An attempt by force of arms to destroy a government is an offense, by whatever means the constitutional compact may have been formed; and such government has the right, by the law of self-defense, to pass acts for punishing the offender, unless that right is modified, restrained, or resumed by the constitutional act. In our system, although it is modified in the case of treason, yet authority is expressly given to pass all laws necessary to carry its powers into effect, and under this grant provision has been made for punishing acts which obstruct the due administration of the laws.
Granted, this might have been mere political grandstanding and he might have secretly harbored other ideas - or changed his mind in the interim - but I do think his words leave little room for interpretation. Of course, with an adept political mind like his in the mix, it is likely that another compromise would have been reached.
He addresses secession pretty specifically in his 1832 proclamation:
Granted, this might have been mere political grandstanding and he might have secretly harbored other ideas - or changed his mind in the interim - but I do think his words leave little room for interpretation. Of course, with an adept political mind like his in the mix, it is likely that another compromise would have been reached.
I have little doubt he would've "compromised" to keep slavery going.
Had he been alive, always a plus, there is no reason to believe Jackson would have sided with the north.
Strange the way Trump carries on about his hero Andrew Jackson but does not seem to know a thing about him.
Maybe Ivanka could put a page of bullet points together for him.
Someone would have to read it to him. And then explain it to him. And even then, that's assuming he has the attention span to pay attention that long, which is doubtful.
Then he shouldn't be talking about things that he doesn't know. That way he can keep his stupidity to himself and not share it with the world.
For Once Donna 501 you are correct.
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