The Horseshoe Colonel

Colonel John Williams was all the pieces Andrew Jackson was not: tall, good-looking, and articulate within the courtroom or together with his quill pen. Jackson defeated him thrice however he by no means gave up and died on the way in which again to D.C. making an attempt to stop the Path of Tears. With out him there would have been no Jackson.
Six generations of the Williams household now break their silence and inform their facet of the story.
Cautioned by Jackson supporters on the Senate ground to worry the Common he replied, “You inform the Common that if he challenges me I shall decide rifles at twenty paces and shoot him between the eyes the place he can’t pad with paper.”
Dolly Madison known as him the Chesterfield of the Senate and Simone Bolivar nicknamed him “the elegant gentleman.” Did he and his household trigger Jackson to lose the Presidency in 1824? He mentioned “there was no ‘Corrupt Cut price’”and he wrote a ebook that was “suppressed by the Social gathering.”
He was written out of historical past.

I ship you right here slightly ebook,
So that you can look upon,
The place you may even see a Hero’s face
when he’s previous and gone.
-John Williams in The Political Mirror