y inscribed parchment
enclosed in a gold box, and Tammany gave a great dinner at which the
leading guest, to the dismay of the young Van Buren and other
supporters of Crawford, toasted DeWitt Clinton, the leader of the
opposing Republican faction. At Baltimore there was a dinner, and the
city council asked the visitor to sit for a picture by Peale for the
adornment of the council room. Here the General was handed a copy of
the Senate committee's report, abounding in strictures on his Seminole
campaign. Hastening back to Washington, he filled the air with
threats, and was narrowly prevented from personally assaulting a
member of the investigating committee. When, however, it appeared that
the report was to be allowed to repose for all time on the table,
Jackson's indignation cooled, and soon he was on his way back to
Tennessee. With him went the news that Adams and Onis had signed a
treaty of "amity, settlements, and limits," whereby for a
consideration of five million dollars the sovereignty of all Florida
was transferred to the United States. This treaty, as Jackson viewed
it, was the crowning vindication of the acts which had been called in
question; and public sentiment agreed with him.

Dilatory tactics on the part of the Madrid Government delayed the
actual transfer of the territory more than two years. After having
twice refused, Jackson at length accepted the governorship of Florida,
and in the early summer of 1821 he set out, by way of New Orleans, for
his new post. Mrs. Jackson went with him, although she had no liking
for either the territory or its people. On the morning of the 17th of
July the formal transfer took place. A procession was formed,
consisting of such American soldiers as were on the spot. A ship's
band briskly played _The Star Spangled Banner_ and the new Governor
rode proudly at the fore as the procession moved along Main Street to
the government house, where ex-Governor Callava with his staff was in
waiting. The Spanish flag was hauled down, the American was run up,
the keys were handed over, and the remaining members of the garrison
were sent off to the vessels which on the morrow were to bear them on
their way to Cuba. Only Callava and a few other officials and
merchants stayed behind to close up matters of public and private
business.

Jackson's governorship was brief and stormy. In the first place, he
had no taste for administrative routine, and he found no such
opportunity as he had h