Jacksonland: A Great American Land Grab - Plot & Excerpts
A bundle of papers arrived with the letter. The writer proposed that his letter and the papers should be published under a pseudonym: “William Penn.” Gentlemen: I send for your paper two numbers of a series of Essays on the pending . . . controversy between the United States and the Indians, and hope you will insert them. . . . This is a subject which must be abundantly discussed in our country. . . . Some able members of Congress, to my certain knowledge, wish to have the matter discussed. The Intelligencer had been linked with presidential administrations since the start of the century. No longer was it so: the paper was part of a capital elite that the new president did not like or trust. Jackson would steer business and information instead to the Jackson man who ran a rival Washington paper, the United States Telegraph, and when that editor proved insufficiently loyal, Jackson would import an editor from Kentucky to start yet another paper.
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