4061. JACKSON (Andrew), Presidential contest.—
A threatening cloud has very
suddenly darkened[General Jackson's] horizon.
A letter has become public, written by him when
Colonel Monroe first came into office, advising
him to make up his administration without
regard to party. (No suspicion has been entertained
of any indecision in his political principles,
and this evidence of it threatens a revolution
of opinion respecting him. [253]
) The solid
republicanism of Pennsylvania, his principal
support, is thrown into great fermentation by
this apparent indifference to political principle.—
To Richard Rush.
Ford ed., x, 304.
(1824)
