The romance of American expansion . Congress. But, finding himself out ofhis element in Washington, and longing for thefree, open, and ultra-democratic life of the Westerncountry, he had speedily resigned, and hastenedhome to preside over the Supreme Court of Tennes-see, to gain election as Major-General of the Statemilitia, and to engage in business. As judge, assoldier, and as business man he had steadily aug-mented his reputation until his brother Tennesseansfairly came to idolize him. Their ideals, theyplainly saw, were his ideals, their interests them, he held an abiding faith in
The romance of American expansion . Congress. But, finding himself out ofhis element in Washington, and longing for thefree, open, and ultra-democratic life of the Westerncountry, he had speedily resigned, and hastenedhome to preside over the Supreme Court of Tennes-see, to gain election as Major-General of the Statemilitia, and to engage in business. As judge, assoldier, and as business man he had steadily aug-mented his reputation until his brother Tennesseansfairly came to idolize him. Their ideals, theyplainly saw, were his ideals, their interests them, he held an abiding faith in the possi-bilities and future of the land in which they lived;like them, he felt the instinct for growth and expan-sion ; and — what is most important in the presentconnection — like them he would brush aside, withfiery impatience, all that might hamper expressionof that instinct. Such was the man — imperious, impetuous,masterful, and passionate, protagonist par excellenceof the spirit of the early West — who by virtue of. (14 tl ANDREW JACKSON 6i his rank in the Tennessee militia took command, inthe opening days of 1813, of a formidable force ofsturdy frontiersmen, called out for the defense ofthe lower country. Two years earlier, anticipat-ing the outbreak of war with England and recogniz-ing the possibility of Florida being occupied by theenemy for hostile purposes, Congress had authorizedthe President to take temporary possession of anypart or all of that Spanish province in the event ofan attempt to occupy the said territory, or any partthereof, by any foreign power. Now that war hadactually arrived, Madison was determined that thecontingency of foreign occupation should not this end had Jacksons army been created, anarmy of which Jackson himself wrote enthusiasti-cally: They go at our countrys call to do the willof the Government. No constitutional scruplestrouble them. Nay, they will rejoice at the oppor-tunity of placing the American eagle on the rampa
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