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JACKSON, ANDREW, President. Letter signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, to Major E.B. Penrose, Washington, D.C., 9 October 1836. 2 pages, 4to, 245 x 215mm. (9 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.), lightly browned, defective in upper left margin, minor fold tears.
"THE STANDARD OF THE MILITIA, OUR NATIONAL GUARD...IS THE ONLY ONE UNDER WHICH WE CAN ALWAYS RALLY WITHOUT FEAR OF DANGER TO LIBERTY"
President Jackson gracefully declines an invitation from a militia group: "I feel much honored by the invitation to me...to visit the encampment which the 11th division of the Pennsylvania militia propose to make at Carlisle on the 25th inst[ant] for the purpose of improvement in military discipline; and am truly grateful for the favorable opinion of my public services which suggested it. Please assure my fellow citizens of that division that I look with delight upon every step taken to improve the discipline of our militia, and if my duties did not prevent it, that I would with much pleasure attend one so generally approved as this is. The standard of the militia, our National guard, is the only one under which we can always rally without the fear or danger to liberty, and it ought to represent the discipline as well as the patriotism and union of our countrymen..."
"THE STANDARD OF THE MILITIA, OUR NATIONAL GUARD...IS THE ONLY ONE UNDER WHICH WE CAN ALWAYS RALLY WITHOUT FEAR OF DANGER TO LIBERTY"
President Jackson gracefully declines an invitation from a militia group: "I feel much honored by the invitation to me...to visit the encampment which the 11th division of the Pennsylvania militia propose to make at Carlisle on the 25th inst[ant] for the purpose of improvement in military discipline; and am truly grateful for the favorable opinion of my public services which suggested it. Please assure my fellow citizens of that division that I look with delight upon every step taken to improve the discipline of our militia, and if my duties did not prevent it, that I would with much pleasure attend one so generally approved as this is. The standard of the militia, our National guard, is the only one under which we can always rally without the fear or danger to liberty, and it ought to represent the discipline as well as the patriotism and union of our countrymen..."