Hermitage
October 12th, 1839

Dear Sir:

   Your letter of the 26th ultimo has just been received, its contents being
duly noted, I hasten to reply to it.
   I sincerely regret to find from the contents of your letter the treatment
which that worthy man & patriot, Col. Robert Love, has received at the hands
of the pension office - that a man who thro life has sustained such an
exemplary character, his honesty, & probity should be suspected, in his
decline of life, must be truly mortifying to him, as well as to the people of
North Carolina who have shown by their repeated acts of confidence in him,
their high estimation of his moral worth.
   As you have requested, it gives me pleasure to state my knowledge of Col.
Robert Love.  I became acquainted with him in North Carolina.  I think in the
fall of 1784, and have known him ever since and hazzard nothing in saying
that no man in this union has sustained a higher reputation for integrity,
than Col. Robert Love, with all men and with all parties.  Altho himself a
uniform Democratic-Republican, and no man stands diservidly higher, as a man
of great moral worth, than Col. Love's has always stood, in the estimation of
all who know him - that his integrity should, in his old age, be dobuted must
be a source of mortification, not only to himself, but to every man in No.
Carolina, where he has been so often honored by this confidence, as a public
character.

I am with great
respect yr. mo.
obediant servant.

Andrew Jackson

Mr. Michael Francis  

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