Another possibility: Jackson is rendered skittish by the assassination attempt and begins packing heat everywhere he goes. One evening he discharges his gun into the throat of an innocent Quaker who was reaching into his jacket for a pair of eyeglasses. The Quaker dies in a pool of blood, but Jackson is never arrested. The Whigs compare the president to a wicked European monarch, killing his wretched subjects on a whim. Jackson does himself no favors, showing no remorse and blaming the "old fool" for having "got in the way of my gun." Whigs portray Jackson as a coward with an itchy trigger finger. "Whose grandpa will scaredy Andy shoot next?" In 1836 a lame-duck coalition of Whigs and anti-Jacksonian Democrats narrowly vote to impeach, and the Whig-controlled senate easily votes to convict. Mere weeks before the end of his term, Jackson is removed from office and replaced by Martin Van Buren, who is also the president-elect.