ANDREW TURD JACKSON, THE CONFEDERACY AND THE 1832 ELECTION

I re-read a few chapters from Griffin's The Creature From Jekyll Island today, those on Andrew Jackson and his battle with the Second Bank of the United States. Griffin does a very good job in painting Jackson as a hero for the common man in slaying the bank. Jackson campaigned to be re-elected as President of the United States in 1832 with the slogan, "Jackson and no bank", and he was re-elected.

But why did people vote for Jackson?

Was it because of his opposition to the bank?

Or were there other reasons.

Well, here is a very, very interesting set of statistics on the 1832 election:

the seven states who voted for Jackson with over 70%, and in some cases 100%, of the vote were

Georgia 100%
Mississippi 100%
Missouri 100%
Alabama 99.97%
Tennessee 95.42%
North Carolina 84.77%
Virginia 74.96%

What do you notice about these seven states?

Yep. They were all Confederate states.

But did these seven states vote for Jackson because of the Second Bank?

The bank may have been one reason, but possibly not the only reason.

You see, at that time Jackson was also working to expel all the native Americans from states like Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee so that white immigrant settlers could seize the ancient hunting grounds from those native Americans in order to build plantations based on slaves (like Jackson had himself), and to look for gold (which Jackson lusted after). So I think there is a strong argument that the voters in these seven states voted for Jackson because he would give them native American land and gold.

Griffin writes about the 1832 election as if it was just about the bank. In the Confederate states there was more going on than just an argument about a bank. And that was building the base for the Confederacy based on slavery and expulsion of the native Americans through the Indian Removal Act 1830 which resulted in the Trail of Tears under British agent Martin van Buren (who Jackson appointed as his Ambassador to Great Britain!).

But what can you expect from Griffin when he praises Jackson for paying off the debt incurred by the 1812 War, when it was Jackson's nemesis Nicholas Biddle who had done all the hard work through his excellent management of the Second Bank of the United States, leaving Jackson with just a few dollars to repay. Jackson then destroyed the bank, and also appointed the Rothschilds as agents of the US in Europe!

What a turd!