Until vindicated by the House vote, he remained quietly in his hotel.
After that he felt free to pay and receive calls, attend dinners, and
accept the tokens of regard which were showered upon him. It was now
that he paid his first visit to a number of the larger eastern cities.
Philadelphia fêted him four days. In New York the freedom of the city
was presented by the mayor on a delicately 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