Why did they put a picture of Jackson on money, since he hated the central bank?
Posted by Ben Brumfield at June 5, 2006 04:09 PMHm...
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and other Whig leaders proclaimed themselves defenders of popular liberties against the usurpation of Jackson. Hostile cartoonists portrayed him as King Andrew I.
Behind their accusations lay the fact that Jackson, unlike previous Presidents, did not defer to Congress in policy-making but used his power of the veto and his party leadership to assume command.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj7.html
Posted by: Alan Hogue at June 5, 2006 11:16 PMHmmm. Hadn't thought of it as some sort of whiggish revenge.
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at June 6, 2006 11:26 PM