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    The venom taking place towards this November presidential election is shameful.

    To hate one man so much because of the incessant lies of another is chilling, but as always, an essay blossomed like a flower pushing through the pavement.

    You’ve heard all is fair in love and war.

    Somewhere along the line we’ve tossed in politics.

    Dirty pool during an election is nothing new.

The 1825 presidential election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson was rocked by scandal.

As lore has it, the Kentucky Senator Henry Clay who did not want Jackson in the White House was behind it, resulting in the death of Rachel Jackson, Andrew’s beloved wife.    

   Rachel at 17 was married to a creep named Lewis Robards who after physically abusing her, took off.

   Once hearing that Lewis divorced her, fell madly in love with Andrew she eloped with.

   Out of the blue Lewis never getting that divorce, came back  which technically made Rachel a bigamist.

   She immediately filed for one, then remarried Andrew.

   Well the tale of bigamy without the whole story, ran in every newspaper there was. In those days, it wasn’t left on your doorstep. Sometimes you’d wait weeks for one to arrive. When Rachel the religious woman that she was, read the salacious lies about herself, already possessing a weak heart, suffered a fatal heart attack.

   Jackson never forgave Clay who naturally denied it.

   In 1827 after only serving one term, Andrew succeeded Mr. Adams he also blamed after he appointed Clay his Secretary of State as if it were all a plot to keep him from the White House.

   John Quincy Adams hadn’t a dishonest bone in his body hiring Clay strictly for his brilliance.

    I’m not a fan of Andrew Jackson’s, but still feel for him losing his wife so suddenly.

    Standing all alone, he took his oath of office holding Rachel’s missal she was never without. He wore a black weeper inside the brim of his hat the way one wears a black armband to display profound loss.

  It was then, he planted the famous Magnolia Tree on the White House lawn in Rachel’s memory that I’m sorry to say, thanks to First Lady Melania Trump who cut it down, is no more.

  I guess all is fair in love and war, politics and alas, gardening.

  SB


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