Jacksonland by Steve Inskeep

Author:Steve Inskeep
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

We . . . hope yet to have a full account of what happened in the three or four last days of the session.

Just as General Jackson had once seized land from his allies after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, President Jackson conducted an operation on his allies in Congress.

The highway bill was known as the Maysville Road Bill, after the new federal highway it would finance beginning in Maysville, in Henry Clay’s Kentucky. Jackson didn’t favor it. He said it wasn’t an interstate road. It was to be built entirely within one state, which Jackson considered inappropriate for a federal project even though it was to be connected to a larger interstate road network over time. But the president did not veto the bill at first. He left it on his desk, waiting the full ten business days the Constitution allowed before acting. This gave House leaders time to push the Indian debate toward its close. On May 17, as Congressman Lumpkin of Georgia delivered his speech for removal, the ten-day clock was already running. The fight grew desperate as time began to expire; many members of Jackson’s new party were wavering under pressure from constituents who protested removal. Party leaders made the vote an issue of loyalty, according to Niles’ Weekly Register:

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