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Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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In Washington City on February 10, 1825, a committee of citizens from various states invited General Andrew Jackson to a public dinner to show respect after the presidential election decision, but he declined, citing potential misinterpretation as complaint.
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A number of gentlemen, now in this city, from different parts of the Union, wishing to manifest their respect towards General Jackson, after the decision of the Presidential question, met together for the purpose of offering him a Public Dinner on the occasion. The following notes will explain the object of the Committee, and the delicate and high-minded sense of propriety of the Hero's refusal:
Washington City, 10th Feb. 1825.
Sir: A number of your fellow citizens, assembled in this city, from different states in the Union, with the confident expectation of seeing the universal wishes of the nation fulfilled, by your elevation to the Chief Magistracy thereof: Disappointed in that respect, however, they are desirous of testifying their attachment and regard for you, by soliciting the pleasure of your company at a public entertainment, to be given at Williamson's Hotel, tomorrow afternoon, at 5 o'clock. We are, very respectfully, your fellow-citizens.
SAML SWARTWOUT, of New Jersey,
JOHN CONARD, Pennsylvania,
WM. ROBINSON, Virginia,
J. O. HANLON, S. Carolina,
Committee.
To Gen. And'w Jackson.
General Jackson's Reply
Gentlemen: I have received your polite invitation, in behalf of yourselves and a number of citizens in this city, from the different states in the Union, to partake of a public entertainment tomorrow. For your politeness, pray accept my thanks. I cannot decline, and ought not; yet I cannot refrain from suggesting to you and my friends the propriety perhaps necessity, of forbearing to confer upon me, at this moment, any such prominent mark of your regard. You cannot, I am persuaded, mistake my meaning. A decision of a matter, about which much public feeling and concern has been manifest, very lately has taken place. Any evidence of kindness and regard, such as you propose, might, by many, be viewed as conveying with it exception murmuring, and feelings of complaint; which I sincerely hope belong not to any of my friends. I would, therefore, beg leave to suggest to you, that on reflection, you may deem it proper to forbear any course to which, possibly, exception might be taken.
Please to accept my thanks, and tender them to the gentlemen respectively.
ANDREW JACKSON.
To MESSRS. S. SWARTWOUT,
J. CONARD,
Committee.
WM. ROBINSON,
J. O. HANLON,
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Washington City
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10th Feb. 1825
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general jackson declined the invitation, suggesting it might be viewed as murmuring or complaint against the recent presidential decision.
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A committee of citizens from different states invited General Jackson to a public dinner at Williamson's Hotel on the afternoon of February 11, 1825, to express attachment after the presidential election outcome. Jackson replied thanking them but advising against it to avoid misinterpretation.