The Life of Andrew Jackson (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life of Andrew JacksonAmos Kendall. The last was given the promise of the papers. He began to write in 1842 when he had lost the auditorship to which his patron appointed him. He was then poor financially and expected large returns from his venture. He began to publish it in parts, announcing that fifteen would complete the enterprise. Jackson placed the en tire collection of papers at his disposal, and two visits to the Hermitage gave fair Opportunity to get all it contained. He carried away to Washington many of the most immr tant papers and had not returned them when Jackson died in 1845. His work was interrupted when seven instalments had appeared, and it was not completed. Jackson was not pleased with the numbers which he saw, but did not withdraw the papers. There was a plan on foot to build a Jackson memorial in Washington, and he desired them to be handed over by Kendall, when he had finished with them, to Frank P.Blair to hold until the memorial was completed when they were to be deposited there. The least valuable of the collection were not taken to Washington by Kendall, and these went to Blair from Jackson himself. Later Kendall turned over a part of those in hand to Blair, but the latter complained that the most valuable were not delivered. Blair also said that Kendall would yet publish a life of Jackson, written to glorify the writer of it, and he intended to charge his sons to write a true biography which would counteract the errors he expected to be in Kendall's. This, so far as the letters show, is all the basis that existed for the assertion that Blair was to write the life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.