Not many days after the Jefferson birthday celebration a congressman from South Carolina came to the White House to pay his respects and take leave of the President before departing for his home. He asked Jackson if he had anything he wanted him to convey to his friends in South Carolina. “No, I believe not,” came the immediate reply. But then the President remembered his toast and corrected himself. “Yes, I have; please give my compliments to my friends in your State, and say to them, that if a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will
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