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Andrew Jackson

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Andrew Jackson

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Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
LS, as president, one page both sides, 8 x 10, September 12, 1833. Letter to his Secretary of War Lewis Cass on the opinion of Attorney General, and future Chief Justice, Roger Taney. In full: “You will receive herewith the opinion of the Atty. General on the contract between Lt. Symington of the ordnance corps and Mr. Harmon Gassaway for a quantity of gunshedding to be paid for at $ 20. Per ton. Concurring in the views expressed by the Attorney General on the subject, I cannot of course sanction the conduct of the head of the ordnance corps, who, it appears, did not pursue the regulations of the War Department which were applicable to the case. As it appears, however, that the head of the ordnance corps considered that he was verbally authorized by the then Secretary of War to execute the contract as he did, the President deems it proper to excuse this departure from the usages of the Department. You will please henceforth take the proper steps to secure the observance of the authority conferred by the laws and regulations, in contracts of this character…” Second integral page bears an address panel in another hand. In fine condition, with intersecting folds, a couple trivial separations along hinge, some scattered light toning, and writing showing through lightly from opposing sides.

When Jackson became president, he implemented the theory of rotation in office to prevent development of a corrupt bureaucracy. To that end, Jackson named Attorney General Taney his secretary of the treasury 11 days after sending this message. In that prior post, Taney supported South Carolina's law prohibiting free African Americans from entering the state, and argued that blacks could not be citizens. In 1833, as secretary of the treasury, Taney ordered an end to the deposit of federal money in the Second Bank of the United States, which killed the institution. When his nomination for reappointment failed in the Senate, Taney returned to Maryland and resumed private practice. But Jackson, angered by the Senate’s rejection, nominated him as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, keeping his theory of rotation alive.
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