To Chandler Price, Chairman, Jacob Holgate and Henry Horn, Secretaries of the Committee of Superintendence and Vigilance, for the City and County of Philadelphia
註釋 Sole edition of this commentary regarding the election of Andrew Jackson, written by a senator who went on to become Secretary of War. Responding to a pamphlet published by an advocate of presidents Monroe and Adams, Eaton here defends Jackson, his friend and the mentor of his first wife, with regards to Jackson's actions as Governor of Florida and his imposition of martial law in New Orleans. "As early as the year 1819, while the famous Seminole campaign question was pending at the city of Washington, Mr. Roberts was found the earnest opponent of General Jackson, hurried to his conclusions then, through the same false reasoning by which he has been carried to the results he has arrived at in his late publication. ... [H]e was, and since has continued to be, the warm friend of Mr. Monroe, who was then President. ... As it regards the attempt of Mr. Roberts to excite the citizens of Kentucky, I feel confident they will neither applaud nor thank him. The subject he has selected is a family matter of their own, and he greatly errs in knowledge of her people, if he supposes they have any use for him as an auxiliary and helper in their affairs." Other topics include the declaration of martial law at New Orleans; the actions and arrests of Louis Louallier and of Judge Dominic Augustin Hall (1765-1820); Pensacola; General John Coffee; and Eaton's extensive opinions on the personality of Jonathan Roberts. 