Auction # 58 - Winter 2014 Auction

Andrew Jackson. 1767-1845, 7th President 1829-37. Manuscript free frank "Free Andrew Jackson" on 1838 folded cover to Francis P. Blair, Esq., Editor of the Globe in Washington, D.C., blue Nashville, Ten. cds with matching straight line "Free" rating handstamp, inside is lengthy ALS signed by "A.J. Donahue", cover datelined "Hermitage"; cover with some staining and corner wear at left corners, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $500 - 750.

President Andrew Jackson viewed the Indian tribes as obstacles to American expansion. His Indian Removal Act and other federal legislative initiatives sought to separate Indians from the path of white settlement. By 1840, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the American military had relocated more than 30 tribes to areas west of the Mississippi River.