Box Number

3

Folder

19

Item Description

Jane Brevard Darby scrapbook: Pamphlet, 1832, 11 pp. (4 pages missing), entitled ''Judge Brackenridge's Letters,'' providing printed copies of letters between Judge Henry Marie Brackenridge, President Andrew Jackson, and Florida Congressional delegate Joseph M. White, concerning Jackson's removal of Brackenridge from the bench and Brackenridge's subsequent accusations against Jackson as ''having been guilty of an alarming abuse of power, in striking a fatal blow at the independence of the judiciary. . . having treated with contemptuous disregard the wishes of the people of Florida . . . for the gratification of his private feelings, or for the purpose of subserving the interests and passions of unprincipled men; and . . . with having, from impure motives, nominated unfit and improper persons to the highly important station of Judges in Florida. . .''

Box Description

CALL FAMILY PAPERS (continued)

Folder Description

Jane Brevard Darby scrapbook: Pamphlet, 1832, 11 pp. (4 pages missing), entitled ''Judge Brackenridge's Letters,'' providing printed copies of letters between Judge Henry Marie Brackenridge, President Andrew Jackson, and Florida Congressional delegate Joseph M. White, concerning Jackson's removal of Brackenridge from the bench and Brackenridge's subsequent accusations against Jackson as ''having been guilty of an alarming abuse of power, in striking a fatal blow at the independence of the judiciary. . . having treated with contemptuous disregard the wishes of the people of Florida . . . for the gratification of his private feelings, or for the purpose of subserving the interests and passions of unprincipled men; and . . . with having, from impure motives, nominated unfit and improper persons to the highly important station of Judges in Florida. . .''