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When Andrew Jackson's wife died in 1828, Jackson held his political enemies responsible. Rachel died suddenly in December less than two weeks after Jackson was announced the winner of the presidential election of 1828. She never served the role of First Lady.
The election of 1828 was and remains one of America's most bitter, vicious and personal. In the previous election, the election of 1824, Jackson faced off against John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. Despite winning the popular vote and the electoral vote, Jackson wasn't able to receive a majority. A contingent election was held in the House of Representatives and Adams was declared the winner.
As Jackson felt cheated out of victory he was immediately determined to run again. Still with popular support behind him, Jackson was projected to win in 1828. Therefore, Adams supporters launched a brutal campaign against Jackson known as the Coffin Handbills.
In these pamphlets they called Jackson a murderer, scoundrel and a cannibal. They criticized every aspect of his life from his military service against the Native Americans to his many duels. Most personal of all, they attacked his marriage to Rachel Jackson as an immoral paramour romance. The grounds for this were in a complication relating to Rachel's previous marriage to Lewis Robards of Kentucky back in 1788.
Jackson was still able to win the election but not without a heavy cost. His wife had been so dismayed by the allegations along with thought of having to live in the White House in Washington D.C. that she suffered a heart attack (she had already been developing a heart condition).
Jackson was devastated by the loss and held his political enemies such as Henry Clay directly responsible. “May God Almighty forgive her murderers, as I know she forgave them. I never can.” He also said, “I can and do forgive all my enemies. But those vile wretches who have slandered her must look to God for mercy.”
Once he got into office Jackson would take away privileges from people he blamed. Until his death he stayed on bad terms with his Democratic-Republican opponents Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.
In 1845, when Jackson died Adams would write of him in his diary, "Jackson was a hero, a murderer, an adulterer, and a profoundly pious presbyterian, who in the last days of his life belied and slandered me before the world, and died in full confidence that his sins were pardoned by the atoning blood of the Saviour..."
On Rachel's tombstone at the Hermitage the inscription reads, "a being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound but could not dishonor.”
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When Andrew Jackson's wife died in 1828, Jackson held his political enemies responsible. Rachel died suddenly in December less than two weeks after Jackson was announced the winner of the presidential election of 1828. She never served the role of First Lady.
The election of 1828 was and remains one of America's most bitter, vicious and personal. In the previous election, the election of 1824, Jackson faced off against John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. Despite winning the popular vote and the electoral vote, Jackson wasn't able to receive a majority. A contingent election was held in the House of Representatives and Adams was declared the winner.
As Jackson felt cheated out of victory he was immediately determined to run again. Still with popular support behind him, Jackson was projected to win in 1828. Therefore, Adams supporters launched a brutal campaign against Jackson known as the Coffin Handbills.
In these pamphlets they called Jackson a murderer, scoundrel and a cannibal. They criticized every aspect of his life from his military service against the Native Americans to his many duels. Most personal of all, they attacked his marriage to Rachel Jackson as an immoral paramour romance. The grounds for this were in a complication relating to Rachel's previous marriage to Lewis Robards of Kentucky back in 1788.
Jackson was still able to win the election but not without a heavy cost. His wife had been so dismayed by the allegations along with thought of having to live in the White House in Washington D.C. that she suffered a heart attack (she had already been developing a heart condition).
Jackson was devastated by the loss and held his political enemies such as Henry Clay directly responsible. “May God Almighty forgive her murderers, as I know she forgave them. I never can.” He also said, “I can and do forgive all my enemies. But those vile wretches who have slandered her must look to God for mercy.”
Once he got into office Jackson would take away privileges from people he blamed. Until his death he stayed on bad terms with his Democratic-Republican opponents Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams.
In 1845, when Jackson died Adams would write of him in his diary, "Jackson was a hero, a murderer, an adulterer, and a profoundly pious presbyterian, who in the last days of his life belied and slandered me before the world, and died in full confidence that his sins were pardoned by the atoning blood of the Saviour..."
On Rachel's tombstone at the Hermitage the inscription reads, "a being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound but could not dishonor.”
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