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n Slate earlier this week, Jillian Keenan argued that we should “kick Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill.” As this “coffin handbill,” distributed during the 1828 election, shows, the seventh president has long inspired such violent dislike.
“He has ever been a man of ‘blood and carnage,’ ” the Philadelphia editor John Binns, who printed and distributed the handbill, writes. In small print, the broadside collected several instances of Jackson’s alleged perfidy, recounting the story of an 1815 execution of six militiamen for desertion during the War of 1812; pointing to the killing of Indian noncombatants during the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend; and reprinting personal testimony from Sen. Thomas Hart Benton about an altercation he had with Jackson in a Nashville-boarding house.
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