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Third-person ALS as president, signed twice within the text as “The President,” one page, 4.75 x 7.5, March 11, 1830. Boldly penned handwritten letter to Virginia Senator Littleton Tazewell, in full: “The president with his respects to the Hon'ble Mr. Tazewell would thank him to have the nomination of Col. A. Butler acted upon at as early a period as possible. The president is awaiting the result to send out some necessary instructions to him." The reverse of the second integral page is addressed in the president's hand. In fine condition.
Included is a three-page letter from Anthony Butler to President Jackson, dated from Mexico on December 26, 1831, which begins: “You will perceive along with the Treaty of Commerce & Navigation an additional article to the Treaty of limits and boundary, by which it is provided that the Ratification of both treaties may be exchanged at the same time. This affair…was so strongly urged on me in 1830 when the Other Treaty was on hand, and the jealousy against us and the suspicions that we had designs against Texas were so strong, that I deemed it best to gratify them with the additional article.”
A friend of Jackson's friend for 20 years, Anthony Butler (1787-1849) was a former Kentucky congressman who was appointed Chargé d'Affaires in Mexico on October 12, 1829; the reason Jackson’s letter is dated later is that Butler was commissioned during a recess of the Senate; he was recommissioned on March 12, 1830, after confirmation. Butler proved an over-eager diplomat, even by Jackson's definition. He had authorized Butler to attempt to purchase Texas for the U.S., but, when this failed, Butler attempted bribery, and the Mexican government promptly demanded his recall.
Jackson’s attempts to secure Senate approval of Butler's appointment as a diplomat to Mexico was a move that roused considerable controversy among Whigs. On learning of Butler's nomination in December, Henry Clay, for instance, remarked: ‘He is wholly incompetent, of desperate fortune and bad character, and was a fugitive from civil justice both in this State and Mississippi. He actually fled or retired to Texas, from whence he did not emerge until lately, since the elevation of Gen'l Jackson’(December 25, 1829).
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