Old Hickory was a patriot through and through, and there was not an ounce of timidity in his nature, and of course he felt only indignant contempt for a policy which purchased an ignoble peace by cowardice instead of exacting a just peace by showing we were as little willing to submit to as to inflict aggression.
Roosevelt praises Andrew Jackson's patriotism and his stance against cowardice in foreign policy.
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