re: #22 Shiplord Kirel

One version of Jackson’s response to nullifiers:

“If one drop of blood be shed there in defiance of the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man of them I can put my hand on from the first tree I can reach.”

He meant it too. Whatever else you can say about Jackson, he was not given to idle threats.

Andrew Jackson’s only regret about the Nullification Crisis was that ultimately did not hang Sen. John C. Calhoun.