Editing Andrew Jackson (section)

===Slavery===
By the 1830s, [[abolitionism in the United States]] had become a major reform movement, one often targeted by pro-slavery violence.{{Sfn|Dickey|2022|loc=introduction}} Federal troops were used to crush [[Nat Turner's Rebellion|Nat Turner's slave rebellion]] in 1831,{{sfn|Aptheker|1943|p=300}} though Jackson ordered them withdrawn immediately afterwards despite the petition of local citizens for them to remain for protection.{{sfn|Breen|2015|p=105–106}} Jackson considered the issue of slavery divisive to the nation and to the delicate alliances of the Democratic Party.{{sfn|Latner|2002|p=117}}

Jackson's view was challenged when the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]] agitated for [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolition]]{{sfn|Henig|1969|p=43}} by sending anti-slavery tracts through the postal system into the South in 1835.{{sfn|Latner|2002|p=117}} Jackson condemned the abolitionists as "monsters"{{sfn|Henig|1969|p=43–44}} and said they should die,{{sfn|Remini|1984|p=260}} arguing that their antislavery activism would encourage [[sectionalism]] and destroy the Union.{{sfn|Brands|2005|p=554}} The tracts provoked riots in Charleston, and pro-slavery Southerners demanded that the postal service ban distribution of the materials. Jackson responded by directing that antislavery tracts should be sent only to subscribers, whose names could be made publicly known, exposing them to reprise.{{sfn|Remini|1984|pp=258–260}} That December, Jackson called on Congress to prohibit the circulation through the South of "incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection".{{sfn|Remini|1984|p=261}}