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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4443645, member: 57463&quot;]Way back in the late Middle Ages when I was in high school, libertarians liked Andrew Jackson for killing the monster bank and for enacting the Specie Circular. By the 1980s, Pres. Jackson was not faring so well. The Liberty Lobby was issuing silver rounds in his honor, but they are unabashedly racist. And really, if you know your Disney, there was a scene in which our hero Davy Crockett played by Fess Parker faced down Old Hickory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jeffersonian democrats were shocked by the Jacksonian rabble. Jackson was the first president not from Massachusetts or Virginia and it signaled a change in American culture. Then, there were the scandals, leading off with his &quot;wife&quot; not actually being divorced from her first husband. But, also, in a story right out of the Old Testament, the Secretary of War John Henry Eaton former senator from Tennessee sent a ship off to the end of the world so that he could marry the purser&#039;s wife. (See The Petticoat Affair and the Eaton Scandal.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Jackson&#039;s contemptuous statement &quot;Mr. Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it.&quot; is apocryphal. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia</a> but the fact remains that Jackson is held responsible for the Trail of Tears. Whatever good President Jackson did was interred with his bones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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