A nation that can quietly reabsorb a vast victorious army is no more safely free and healthy than is a nation that could reabsorb such a President as Andrew Jackson, sending him into seclusion at the Hermitage to live without power, and die almost forgotten.
Wilson compares the reabsorption of a victorious army to the political fate of Andrew Jackson.
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