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| General Andrew Jackson Statue In New Orleans, Louisiana |
[Andrew] Jackson *wrote to the Army quartermaster [William Berkeley Lewis]: ...is this the reward of a virtuous administration, to its patriotic sons, or is it done by a wicked monster, to satiate the vengeance, of a combination of hypocritical Political Villains, who would sacrifice the best blood of our Country, to satiate the spleen of a villain who their connections with in acts of wickedness they are afraid to offend...? Jackson made it clear that one of the villains to whom he referred was Wilkinson. [Source: The Devils Backbone...]
*Transcription of Andrew Jackson's letter below:
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