“I have spoke for a place in the paper [Gazette] for the following advertisement . . . as follows, To all who shall see these presents Greeting. Know ye that I Andrew Jackson, do pronounce, publish, and declare to the world, that his excellency John Sevier, Captain General and commander in chief of the land and naval forces of the state of Tennessee, is a base coward and poltroon. He will basely insult, but has not courage to repair the wound. Andrew Jackson.
