Flyer, Andrew Jackson, 1828

Jackson, Andrew · 1828

During the election of 1828, the second contest between fellow Democratic-Republicans John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, anti-Jacksonian groups published broadsides attacking Jackson’s moral character. The handbills, which came to be known as “coffin handbills” for their macabre imagery. They called into question the execution of militiaman David Morrow for mutiny in 1815 while he was under Jackson’s command, a death Jackson’s detractors saw as unjust. Despite the charge, Jackson won the presidency.