The Hermitage compound includes a museum of Andrew Jackson. He was a most interesting person, eventually the Seventh President. He had resigned his seat as U.S. Congressman from Tennessee after one year saying, according to the movie we were shown at the nuseum:

       “I was born for the storm; the calm does not suit me.”

He learned a hatred of the British during our Revolution and he got his revenge at the Battle of New Orleans. He sent the Native Americans down the Trail of Tears. And he held slaves.  This is a newspaper advertisement of his displayed at the museum:

Stop the Runaway.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.

Eloped from the subscriber, living near Nashville, on the 25th of June left, a Mulatto Man Slave, about thirty years old, six feet and an inch high, stout made and active, talks sensible, stoops in his walk, and has a remarkable large foot, broad across the foot at the toes – will pass for a free man, as I am informed he has obtained by some means, certificates as such – took with him a drab great-coat, dark mixed body coat, a ruffled shirt, cotton home-spun shirts and overalls.

He will make for Detroit, through the states of Kentucky and Ohio, or the upper part of Louisiana. The above reward will be given any person that will take him, and deliver him to me, or secure him in jail, so that I can get him. If taken out of the state, the above reward, and all reasonable expenses paid – and ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashe, any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred.

ANDREW JACKSON,
Near Nashville, State of Tennessee.

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