AMERICA'S FOUNDATIONAL CULTURE IS BEING EVICTED: WHO'S NEXT?
Vol. I | Issue. 38 | October 21, 2021
Andrew Jackson of Tennessee was the 7th President of the United States (1767-1845). Jackson was a wealthy slaveholding lawyer, planter, Justice of the Peace, and the first Governor of the Florida Territory. He made his bones defeating the British in 1815 at the Battle of New Orleans, the decisive battle that got the British out of our hair in what could have been, at the very least, a continued war of attrition for our newly minted nation, and at worst, the defeat and destruction of our entire Union. Jackson’s victory resulted in England signing the Treaty of Ghent, bringing a formal end to the War of 1812.
The British did attempt to burn down the White House, then named the "Executive Mansion”, forcing James Madison and his storied wife Dolly to flee while supposedly leaving her wet laundry hanging in the backyard.
Jackson was a true warrior with many battle scars, the most prominent of which was the gash across his face visited upon him by an angry British Officer when he was a young boy. Jackson was a proud slaveholder and true believer in Manifest Destiny, the philosophy that the United States was destined to shape and rule the North American continent was paramount. Jackson did everything in his power to see that mission through with brutal determination.
While most casual observers interpret his view and actions in the world as primarily racist and brutally anti-Indian, Jackson had one foe he despised more implacably than any other. His primary focus of contempt was aimed squarely at the East Coast American “elite”, the wealthy Planter Class, and the Ivy-league educated “elites” of inherited wealth and/or position. With all of Jackson’s virtues and faults, he was a self-made man.
Jackson, with his hero status based upon his 1815 victory against the British and other military resume honoraria, ran for President against John Quincy Adams in 1824. Jackson won the popular and electoral vote in that election, but the narrow margin of his electoral victory required a vote in the House of Representatives giving Adams the victory.
The First Seminole War leading to the Annexation of Florida from Spain necessitated the Cherokee tribe to be forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee to live in "Indian Territory” in Oklahoma. This came to be known as the Trail of Tears and was a brutal chapter of American history, creating deserved scars on Jackson’s historic legacy.
Jackson ran again for President in 1828 and beat Adams in a landslide. This landslide victory was due largely in part to Jackson’s aggressive stance and plan of action to prevent South Carolina from succeeding on the Union for Tariffs related to the slave trade. Effectively, Jackson prevented the succession of the Southern States for another 30 years.
Jackson’s actions in the brutal displacement of Indian tribes and his robust sense of slavery are a black mark against his record and do require much discussion and reflection by scholars, citizens, and the general ponderings of American history. However, Jackson as General and President was and should remain one of the great figures in American history. His victory over the British came at a time when defeat may have been the death knell for America. Jackson’s victory over Adams in 1828 brought home the now enduring legacy that even a poor boy born in a log cabin, not from a Manor, could become President of the United States. Without Jackson, there likely would have never been a Lincoln. (The left hates him too now…)
Jackson and all of our founding fathers have been tarred, feathered, and run out of the history books by the cultural “elite” of today. They have been used as examples of America's having been built on a foundation of rot that deserves to be destroyed.
The sometimes galling imperfections of our founders and early leaders must be measured against their actions and visions in the creation of America as the only nation in history that makes it possible for those of modest, or disadvantaged means to become President. Since the time of Jackson, that has been a cornerstone of The American Way.
If we do not preserve and value the legacy of America’s foundational leaders, our nation will be evicted from our own cultural soil and replaced by those so admired by the Radical Left who seek to destroy her. The statues of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln will be repaced with Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Casto Guevarra, Arafat, and the other gangsters of history and the present day.
As I’m sure you all have read, The New York City council just bid sayonara to the Thomas Jefferson statue that has adorned the chamber for over 100 years… Who’s next??
-Emes