How can we deny the incredible influence of military glory on the opinion of a nation? General Jackson, chosen by the Americans twice as head of their government, is a man of a violent disposition and mediocre ability; nothing in the course of his career has ever proved that he had the necessary qualities to govern a free nation. In addition, the majority of the enlightened classes in the Union has always been against him. So, who has placed him upon the President’s chair and still keeps him there? The recollection of a victory he won twenty years ago beneath the walls of New Orleans; now,
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