Andrew_Jackson

Andrew Jackson

In 1828 Andrew Jackson was elected to his first of two terms as President. During the last year of his first term the bankers drafted a bill to grant an early re-charter of the bank. Jackson vetoed the bill. Below are extracts from his statement at that time.

"It is not our own citizens only who are to receive the bounty of our government. More than eight millions of the stock of this bank are held by foreigners... Is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it to our country?

"...Controlling our currency, receiving our public moneys, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence .... would be more formidable and dangerous than a military power of the enemy.

"If government were to confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower favor alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles." (President Andrew Jackson,1831.)

From this link on February 14, 2009 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

"On January 30, 1835, what is believed to be the first attempt to kill a sitting President of the United States occurred just outside the United States Capitol Building. When Jackson was leaving the Capitol Building out of the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed and deranged house-painter from England, either burst from a crowd or stepped out from hiding behind a column and aimed a pistol at Jackson which misfired. Lawrence then pulled out a second pistol which also misfired. It has since been postulated that the moisture from the humid weather of the day contributed to the double misfiring. ^[41] Lawrence was then restrained, with legend saying that Jackson attacked Lawrence with his cane, prompting his aides to restrain him. Others present, including David Crockett, restrained and disarmed Lawrence.

"Richard Lawrence gave the doctors several reasons for the shooting. He had recently lost his job painting houses and somehow blamed Jackson. He claimed that with the President dead, "money would be more plenty"—a reference to Jackson’s struggle with the Bank of the United States—and that he "could not rise until the President fell." Finally, he informed his interrogators that he was actually a deposed English King—Richard III, specifically, dead since 1485—and that Jackson was merely his clerk. He was deemed insane, institutionalized, and never punished for his assassination attempt."

End quoted passages from Wikipedia's page on Andrew Jackson.

There are rumors, not mentioned at the above-linked Wikipedia page on Andrew Jackson, which indicate that Richard Lawrence, the man whose pistols both misfired, had been put up to the assassination attempt by European banking powers who resented Jackson's disempowerment of their central bank in America. But that is just a rumor, which I've not yet researched well enough to verify or deny.

Also of note: The two pistols which misfired on that day rest now for public viewing in The Hermitage, which serves as the Andrew Jackson Museum at Nashville, Tennessee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hermitage_(Tennessee)

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