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Thread ID: 19867 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2005-08-29
2005-08-29 04:41 | User Profile
Old Hickory, were he alive today, would undoubtedly be fomenting a rebellion against the monster that is today's government.
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Plenty To Shoot
Someone asked Andy Jackson if he had any regrets after serving two terms as president.
"Yes, two," he replied. "I never got the chance to shoot Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun."
Jackson, of course, was speaking literally. He had personally shot a number of people. He was so different from today's politicians that reading his biography is almost like reading science fiction. The best Jackson biography remains the two-volume work by Marquis James published in the 1930s. Though well-researched and footnoted, the narrative reads like a novel.
Here are some quotations from Gen. Jackson. See if you can imagine any modern politician saying anything similar.
"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country." Amen, Old Hickory.
"The authority of the Supreme Court must not ... be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities." Amen, again. The Supreme Court was never intended to be the "law of the land." If it were, we would be ruled by an unelected oligarchy.
Jackson also disagreed with modern lawyers about the value of legal precedent.
"Mere precedent," he said, "is a dangerous source of authority and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power except where the acquiescence of the people of the States can be considered as well settled." That, of course, is good advice, since legal precedent is nothing more than a previous decision by a set of political appointees who might have been stupid, mad, corrupt or all of the above.
Jackson was opposed to the Bank of the United States (the equivalent of our Federal Reserve) and vetoed its renewal. When a delegation of bankers came to lobby him, he had these very un-Bush-like words for them: "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out." It's inconceivable that any of our weak-kneed, money-grubbing politicians would say that to a delegation of bankers.
Jackson said it is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. He wanted justice, but he was not a modern ideological egalitarian, as the following statement shows:
"Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education or of wealth cannot be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society ... who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government."
Jackson said he wanted to convince his countrymen that they would not find happiness or their rights protected in a splendid government supported by powerful monopolies and aristocratic establishments. Instead, they would find happiness in "a plain system, void of pomp, protecting all and granting favors to none."
Alas, today we have a complex system, full of pomp, protecting practically no one and granting favors to all who come bearing gifts, cash or influence. Old Hickory would no doubt see the need to shoot a lot more politicians than just the two he mentioned.
I highly recommend Marquis James' books, which you can find in used-book stores. They tell us that while evil and problems are always with us, good leaders are possible, and what was possible once is possible now, provided we have the sense to separate the wheat from the human chaff.
2005-08-29 07:00 | User Profile
Very good piece. I think the following is particularly worth repeating:
"Mere precedent," he said, "is a dangerous source of authority and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power except where the acquiescence of the people of the States can be considered as well settled." That, of course, is good advice, since legal precedent is nothing more than a previous decision by a set of political appointees who might have been stupid, mad, corrupt or all of the above. Amen to that! The American legal system is largely based on precedent, which is immensely stupid for the obvious reasons given above. The mere fact that a legal decision has been made in the past hardly implies that it was the right decision.
2005-08-29 11:15 | User Profile
Good piece. Too bad he isn't alive today. Maybe he'd shoot Zell Miller.
2005-08-29 15:56 | User Profile
Another article on Old Hickory.
[url]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=5875[/url]
Andrew Jackson: Hero
History; Posted on: 2005-08-29 07:17:32
Many call him America's greatest President.
by P. Hagen with additional notes by M. P. Shiel
"One man with courage makes a majority." -- Andrew Jackson
ANDREW JACKSON is one of the few great American racialists whose image hasn't been savaged by the current establishment (although there are some moves, by Amerinds and multiracialists, to do so).
Jackson was the first U.S. President who was not a member of the Virginia plantation elite or of New England high society. He was the son of Scots-Irish immigrants, born on a farm in North Carolina where he lived a typical farm boy's life, working from sunup to sundown tending to the fields. His early life not only epitomized the work ethic of Euro-Americans, but it gave Jackson a closeness to the realities of life faced by the working families who formed the backbone of our new nation.
As a youth, Jackson served in the Militia dring the Revolution and was captured by the British. He survived the war and went on to become a general in the army, defeating the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. He spent most of his life in Tennessee, and was among the first prominent American leaders from west of the Appalachians -- pioneer territory then.
Jackson's most notable military victory came in 1818. He had previously driven the Creek Indians of Georgia, who had warred against White farmers, southward into Spanish-controlled Florida, where they joined with some other tribes and runaway Black slaves to become the Seminole (from "cimarron," "wild men" in Spanish).
Although the Seminole were free to live in Florida, they chose to start another war, making raids into Georgia. These raids targeted White women and children. The savages attacked settlements and murdered innocent White children, sometimes forcing them to watch the murder of their own mothers before they were killed themselves. The cries of White children could be heard throughout Georgia, and Old Hickory, as Jackson was called, answered the call.
Jackson, enraged at the deaths of innocent Americans, invaded Spanish Florida, drove the Seminoles out with fire and sword, and captured the capital of Pensacola. Florida was eventually added to the territories of the United States. Jackson's well-deserved popularity carried him ultimately to the office of President.
He was the first President whose life encapsulated the American dream of freedom to rise by one's own merit. A poor Scots-Irish farm boy from North Carolina became President, something that many of the founding fathers {some of whom were still alive} wouldn't have dreamed of.
During his Presidency, Jackson fought against the greed of wealthy and manipulative bankers. He believed that the White people of America -- and only White people could become citizens in those halcyon days -- had a sacred duty to claim new lands and expand their living space.
Despite his martial talents, Jackson was soft-hearted -- perhaps influenced by the religion of the time, which is still with us today (Jackson once averred that he trusted "in the God of Abraham, Isaac and of Jacob"), and certainly to an excessive degree. The Jacksons had no children of their own, but took under their wing a dozen or more whom they reared virtually as parents. One was a non-White, an Amerindian boy whom Jackson took pity on after seeing him among refugee Blacks. He stated "Charity and Christianity says he ought to be taken care of." He wrote to his wife "how thankful I am to you for taking poor little Lyncoya home and clothing him -- I have been much hurt to see him there with the negroes...."
Terry L. Jones, a professor of history, states that Jackson proceeded with what was called "Indian removal" not from a hatred for the Red man, but from a belief that separation was in the interest of both peace and progress, and was best for both races: "Jackson thought Indians were savages, and he wanted to move them off their rich land so white farmers could settle it. He did not believe that Indians and whites could ever live together peacefully. Removing Indians to the west not only would free up farmland for white settlers, but it also would allow the Indians to live free and unmolested."
Jackson extended his belief in racial separation to include Blacks. He opposed Black slavery as an institution, though a slave owner himself. He believed with Jefferson (and in later times, Lincoln) that Blacks should be freed -- and separated forever from White society by returning them to Africa. Jackson even served as Vice President of an organization called the American Colonization Society, whose purpose was to do just that.
Jackson was both an avid nationalist, supporting the expansion of America, and a racialist, supporting the expansion of the White race. Jackson laid the foundations for the age of the pioneers, in which White families went west to find new land. The sometimes hostile and vicious Amerinds only sparsely occupied -- often nomadically and sporadically -- a vast continent nearly empty of human habitation. And when war ensued, Whites triumphed.
These Whites lived a rural lifestyle, raising crops and raising children. The result is... ourselves. As that great century progressed, more and more White children were born, making of our continent a new Europa, attracting more Whites from our ancient homelands, and raising America to the heights of world greatness. When immigration reform eventually became necessary in the 1920s, a bill was passed guaranteeing that the racial makeup of America could not darken through immigration. And, in fact, America gradually became Whiter and Whiter in those days, reaching a peak of over 90 per cent. White (some say 94 per cent.) in 1965. Jackson would have approved.
In the same year that America was Whiter than ever before, 1965, within the memories of many of our readers, Jewish interests successfully pushed for open borders and Congress scrapped our longstanding immigration laws. The results we see today. Jackson would not have approved.
The pioneers planted their White lineage deep in American soil. The blood of our ancestors also fell in that soil. Andrew Jackson was a driving force behind the establishment of White America. I honor him as a White American hero.