Peter Cartright And President Andrew Jackson

President Andrew Jackson is going to hell

There was a fiery old revival preacher named Peter Cartwright who was famous for telling it like it is.

One day he was preaching near Washington D.C. And the people of the church heard that President Andrew Jackson was coming to visit them.

So, they pulled Cartwright aside and said: "Listen Peter, the President is going to be here on Sunday and we know that sometimes you can get kind of offensive, .so would you tone it down, We don't want to upset the President."

So, Peter got up in the pulpit the next Sunday and his first three sentences were these:

"I understand that the President of the United States, Andrew Jackson is with us this morning.

I have been asked to be guarded.in my remarks.

Andrew Jackson will go to Hell if he doesn't repent."

The church was appalled, but when worship was over President Jackson grabbed Cartwright's hand, shook it .and said, ."Sir, if I had an army of men like you I could whip the world."