APPENDIX 



LETTERS FROM ANDREW JACKSON TO REV. HARDY 

 M. CRYER 



A dozen or more letters written by Andrew Jackson to Rev. 

 Hardy M. Cryer are in possession of the Tennessee Historical Society. 

 Some of them were written before Jackson was elected President 

 and others while he was President. These letters add confirmatory 

 evidence to the generally accepted view that, as a rule, Jackson's 

 enemies were all bad, his friends all good; that toward "neutrals," 

 the young, "the rank and file" and his employees, he was kind, 

 courteous and considerate; never puffed up with pride nor affecting 

 superiority over his friends and neighbors among the "plain people." 



These letters show, also, that Jackson always, even while encom- 

 passed by his enemies in Washington, directed the details of 

 work at the Hermitage; and that he was nearly always hard pressed 

 for money and beset with other aggravations of farm life that tend 

 to increase the population of cities. 



All of the letters are in Jackson's handwriting, and the portions 

 here used are precisely as he wrote them. They relate, mostly, to 

 the breeding of Jackson's mares to Cryer's horses, and kindred 

 transactions. 



The first letter of the collecton, written from "Gallatine" as 

 Jackson spelled it "Saturday evening Aug. 18, 1827," shows 

 that Jackson had ridden out to see Cryer, 26 years his junior; when, 

 if the truth were known, there were many men and boys grouped 

 around him, any one of whom would have felt honored with an order 

 to gallop out the Long Hollow pike and tell the young minister that 

 the hero of New Orleans would be pleased to see him in the city. 

 Jackson was great enough to mix with the common herd and do as 

 ordinary people. In concluding this letter he wrote: "I had a great 

 wish to see you and hope you & your lady can pay us the promised 

 visit next week." 



On March 6, 1828, while Jackson's campaign for the Presidency 

 was in full swing, he sent a mare to Cryer's farm; and a letter in 

 which he promised seven other mares to Stockholder and Sir William, 

 then at Cryer's. In this letter Jackson observed: "From the scarcity 

 of money and the high prices at which fine horses stand, I have almost 

 determined to abandon breeding horses and turn my attention to 



