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e most Amerlcans
pictured as tall
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papered ?Ives co}or t0 tnls j
'.rew Jackson was
the day he went . '
<-npalgn to the day !
; a human wreck, j '
:ered in limb and | ;
Wil for twenty-rour j
Cll itlng pain. Only j j
power kept hlm I !
l\ by his physical I '
pouth e>t Amerlcans he Jr!
Third. cllotis and the most ?! '
BROO- U-iolent nnd the ?' j
jt ienerous and the I !
Alwhough swayed '
l _ atrd prone to flts
M?
belov3 nejver was moro
, actad with better
1 enrjaged. He wa?
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.ut dazzll s merlts
-ill rank with the
Jstory. Hls -vt-onder
will. t<;
attrac* ,
terms achieved wlth raw 1
'it ts more astound- j r
he was without | r
i'ithout ever hav- j '
Jtain, c Iteutenant j ;
Vcame a major-gen- -c
": had tnat rarest of | i
?amb!ed and dr.ink. j <
e_celleld kept game-cocks, j e
ownera-, known to use a j I
L1.WI i^rofane expresslon
'? a woman or chilu
Ife was wlthout a
Call
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The Candy That Made
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merly GUTH
309 E. Broad St.
father, a poor Irlsh farmer, scraped
out a livlng as* best he could from a
few rented acres in Carrickfergus.
Hls mother was a weaver. Wlth thelr
two sons, Hugh and Robert. the hns
band and wlfe came to Amcr'ca In 1765 '
and settled ln the northwestefn corner
of the South Carolina. There they
cleared a fleld, built a log cab'n and
ralsed a crop Then the father dled.
The wldow never returned to the cab?
ln. From the grave ln whlch hor hus?
band was Iald she went wltn her two
little boys lo the home of a relative
i few dozen yards across the Ime in
Sorth Corolina, and there, n few nlght?
ifter the funeral, Andrew Jackson
;vas born. He llved and dled bel'ev
ng hc was born In South Carolina.
)tit to Xorth C.trolina belongs the hon
>r. rWha.t early cducatron he receiv?
ed was such as the wanderlng school
naster of the frontier settioment3 im
larted. He never was much of a lover
>f books, and although he wroto j
trongly and well ,his apell'ng was
iwtiy below par,
He was thirteen when Tarleton sur- l
irlsed a dt-tachment of the frontiei '
nilltla, killin^ more than S00 men and
voundlng 1J0. Some of the wounded
vere cared for by Mrs. Jackson. The
tory of that massacre, as they got 11
Irom the wounded men. flred the hearts
>f the Jackson boys. Hugh, the eldest.
mlisted in the comp-any of Colonel
Davle and ?led of exhaustlon atter the
jattle of Stono. Robert and Andrew
vere at the battle of Hanglng Rock,
vhere Sumter, after wlnnlng a gal- j
ant victory, lost lt through his men
irinking too much of the rum captur
d ln the Britlsh camp. Then for a
few months the two boys were engag
ed ln that wretched partlsan warfaro
that spread desolatlon through the
South, when Whlg and Tory nelgh
bors fought llke wolves. Through
overconfldence the band of whlch tns
boys were members were surprlsed by
.; force and the two lads wero
made prlsoness, A Britlsh offlcer o'rder.
ed Andrew to clean his boots and wnen
the boy rerused the offlcer truchk ait him
wlth hls sword. To protect hls head
tlie boy threw up hls left arm. Thu
sword cut hls head and arm, and he
carrled the scars to hls grave.
.\ o Womlcr H<- Hnted thc Enprllali. .
Xext the offlcer ordered Robert Jack.
son to clean the boots, He too, rerus?
ed. Agaln the sword was used and the
elder brother was feiled bleedmg ano
senseless. To Camden, forty mlles dls-'
lant, the two wounded boys wero
taken. How bmtal thelr captors were
may bet lmaglned from th fact that
in the long journey no food was al?
lowed to the brothers, - and when
streams were forded they were not I
nermitted to drlnk.. although they were
In a fever from thelr wounds. In
Camden they were put into a wretch-;'
ed, fllthy hole wlth 250 othor unfoit- '
unates. Soon smallpox developed and;
both boys contracted the disease.
Dead and dying were left together. '
Out of thls horror Mrs. Jackson took
them when an exchange of prisoners
was arranged, an_ stajted home. She
had only one horse. On thls Robert
was llfted. The mother held him|
secure, whlle Andrew walked alongsldo i
bareheaded, barefooted and half dead.1
Through storm and sunshlne they crept
tlong. Two days after reachlng home i
Robert dled. Andrew was an Invalld ; i
THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
for months. Then the mother dled and
Andrew Jackson, less than flfteen
years old, was alone ln the world, No
wonder he hated the English. The
bltterness of that most tragle perlod
of hls llfe he never forgot or forgave.
How he llved for the next few year?
ls not known. There ls a tradltiot)
that he served for a tlme as school
master. Hard-must have been the lot
of army pupils ot that hot-tempered
youth. Tradltion has lt, too, that when
he took a short course in Queen's Col?
lege at Charlotte the tall of hls shlrt
Illrted out of holes ln hls trousers, so
raggred was he. When he was , nlne?
teen he began to study law and when
he was twenty-three he went over the
mountalns Into what now is Tennes?
see, his friend John McNalry, havlng
been appolnted a Judge and young
Jackson havlng been made Sollcltor
Generai or proseeutlng attorney for
the whole reglon, wlth headrjuarters
at.Nashville.'
If there was one offlce In the whole
terrltory that was hazardous it was
that of Sollcltor-General. There were
a god many wild characters ln that
new country and they consldered any
one who prosecuted them in criminal
cases or acted for the other slde ln
clvll cases as a personalenomy. Every
one went armed. A sesslon of court
rarely ended wlthout an encounter II
not a kllling. It requlred a brave man
to act as proseeutlng attorney. It was
not long before Jackson was not only
feared, but respected. Every one knew
he would flght.
He was very tall and very thln, but
remarkably strong. He had a passlon,
too, to make headway in the world.
Out of hls earnings he bought land i
and laid the basis for a large estate.
Then he fell in love. He had llved |
tor a short time in the home or the
Wldow Donelson, whose daughter
Rachel had been deserted by her hus?
band, Lewls Robards. From Virginia,
whither Robards had gone, came a
srlnted report that Robards had obtaln
Jd a dlvorce. Acceptlng the report
ts true, Jackson -and Rachel Robards
narried. Months after thelr marrlage
Itobards returned to Nashville. ' Then
t was dlscovered that at the tlme of
r.ick-son's marrlage the dlvorce decree
lad not been granted, but It had been
ssued shortly before Robards left Vir
jinia. Jackson and hls wlfe were re
narried at once, but thereafter Jack
on's polltlcai enemles used thls affalr
o discredit hlm, torturing and twlst
ng the facts ln the most malign way
mr] never failing to drive him to
renzy.
Duels,
As Tennessee grew Jackson prosper
?d. When the State was admitted
o the Unlon in 1796, he owned more
han 30,000 acres of land and had es
ablished hls famous home, the Her
nitage. Tennessee was entltled to
mt one member of the Houso of Rep- .
esentatlves, and ln the first Feueral, '
lection Jackson was sent to Congress
he followlng year, there hdng
fhe
acancy In fhe Senate, he became Unlt
d States Senator, but ho reslgned thc
fflce ln a few months and was elected
ustlce of the S_preme Court of Ten
.essee. He retalned the .Justlceshlp
lx years, but they were not wlthout
trlfe. Once he got Into a bltter con- . '
est with John Sevler, the noted No- '
ichucky Jack, who was the father of '
'ennessee and Its flrst Governor. 5Iach | '
splred to the major-generalshlp of ; '
he milltla. and Jackson won. It was <
.ot an empty honor, for the Indians i I
/ere troublesome. Sevler was the I
:reatest Indian fighter Amerlca evei'
as known, and to be defeated by a
oung and lnexperienced man was a
ore blow to the old warrlor.
Mrs. Jackson managed the farm and
vas remarkably successful. General
ackson devoted hls attentlon to tho
ench and polltics, As a slde line he
ought one of the greatost race-horsea
?f the day?Trnxton?and raced h'm
gainst the best the West could fur
dsh. Out of a match between Trux.
on and pioughboy developed the duel
/lth Charles Dlcklnson. Dlcklnson
vas one ot the handsomest men In
he State, wild and dlsslpated, and the
est shot in Tennessee. He was op
osed to Jackson, and smarting under
ls losses on .pioughboy, be made re
narks in a tavern affectlng Mrs, Jack
on. When Jackson called hlm to ac
ount he apologlzed saylng ho had beon
ntoxicated and had no knowledge of
rhat he sald. Agaln whlle ln Uquoi'
)Ickijison used offenslvo terms. Agaln
here were explnnatlons. Next one ol
Mcklnson's frlends assalled Jackson, '
ringlng Dlcklnson Into the affalr aa .
uthortty for his statement. Jackson \ '
hereupon branded Dlcklnsonas a polt
oom. and Dlcklnson replied by
alllng Jackson a coward afralii !
o meet blm on the fleld of
lonor. Duellng was common anil Jack
on promptly challenged Dlcklnson.
The placo for the meetlng was about .
orty mlles from Nashville. On tho \ ]
vay to the duellng ground Dlekln
on amused himself by glvlng brli
lant exhlbltlons of hls sklll with the
ilstol, leavlng lnstruotlons to havo
faekson lnformed of hls work when
ie came along. ?
But thls did not effect Jackson's
-omposure. "He dldn't have a man
vlth a plstol -ln front of hlm when
ie shot at that mark, did he?" he would
sk.
Jackson had, de.term,li>o<l Jo let DJc_.>
Inson have the flrst shot. They met ln
a clearlng ln a poplar forest. General
Overton, Jackson's second, was to glve
the order to flre. when tho men took
posltlon Overton called: "Are you
ready?"
"I am ready." replled Dlcklnson.
"Ready,"' said Jackson.
"Fire!" shouted Overton.
Dlcklnson ralsed hls plstol qulckly
and flred. Jackson atood unmoved
Slowly Jackson ralsed hls plstol. Dlck.
Insonlooked at the menaclng flgure be
fore hlm and then crylng, "My Godl
have I missed hlm_* went pale all of
a sudden and stepped back a pace or
two.
"Back to the mark!" yelled Overton
Overton wlth downcast eyes steppcd
rorward. Jackson took dellberate aim
:md pulled the trigger, but somethlng
was wrong. The trigger had stopped
at hair cock. Slowly and carerully
he .rnadjusted the trigger. Tne" "e
ook alm agaln. Then he flred Dlck?
lnson reeled and fell, mortally .wound
.d.
Jackson walked a hundred yards off
where Overton soon jolned him. They
walked about for a mlnute, or two and
hon Overton. ln looking' down, __w
that Jackson's boot was full of blood
Dicklnson's bullet had broken two rlbs
ind rlpped along the breastbone, but
the man of Iron had concealed the1
act tnat he haci been hlt. He was
taken to a house near by and th_
.vottnd dressed, but he Insisted Dlckln?
son should not know he was wound
Dlckinson bled to death. Jackson
vas unable to' be out for a month
-even years later, when the War of
Crlpuled for Mfo.
vith 7v.as _l Kta hefSh^ camo the duel
vlth the Bentons. Jackson had been
Irawn lnto a quarrel wlth Jesse B-n
on. ? brother of Thomas H. Benton.
rhe quarrel was altogether absurd
or ihomas Benton and Jackson wero
varm frlends, but hi.ddlers Inflam.
d the mlnda or the men until Jack
ion announced he would horsewhln
homas Benton on slght.
They met near the Citv Hotel ln
nashville. Jackson had a' whlp in hl?
??and. As Jackson approached Benton
eached ln hls breast p.ocket for a
>lstol. Jackson was qulcker. and be
ore Benton could draw, Jackson had
? Pistol at nis breast. Benton stepped
>?ck and fell down the cellar stopa
?1' the hotel. Thls was ludlcrous, but
is Jackson was turning away dls
rusted Jesse Benton blazed ai hlm from
iphlnd. Hia pistol had a charge of two
>ullets and a large slug. The slua
hattered Jackson's left shoulder. One
>f the balls rlpped hls arm open. Tho
>ther ball entered the left slde and
derced the lungr.
Whlle he was ln bed sufferlng from
hese fearful wounds news came of
he Fort Jllmms maaaacre, where 400
nen, women and children were butch
red by the Creeks. No one supposed
ackson would be able to rlse. from
iis bed to lead the Tennessee mllltia
hat were hastlly called to avenge the
ragedy, but he dld. He had to be
Ifted on a horse. His left arm was ln
sling. Never again could he ? bear
he weight of so much as an epaulel
n hls left shoulder. He not only was
rlppled for llfe, but any unguarded
lovement was agonlzlng. Rldlng
orseback lt was necessary for hlm to
ave a sort of cradle rlgged ln front
f hlm on which to lean. The wound
n the lung never healed.
For the remalndor of hls llfe he
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wlthout support. Usually he sat astrad
dle. so he could put hls arms over the
back. Never, perhaps, did a moro
sorely strlcken man go to lead a cam
Palgn. He was more fltted for a hos?
pltal than the fleld, yet so remarkable
was hls wlll that at tlmes he dlsre
garded hls Injurles and tore around aa
lf he were In hls full strength. But
tho reactlon would be fearful.
If ever a man showed magnlflcent
courage an* ability surely Jackson
did ln that campaign. Hls supplies
went astray and hls men were left
starvlng. They mutlnied. He cajoled
and threatened. Company after com?
pany trled to desert. with such as re?
malned falthful he drove the rebellloua
back. But the men became so weak
at last that he could go no further.
Mutlny spr.ad until lt seemed the ex?
pedltion would end ln disaster, but
Jackson nevor rela.xed. He held that
starvlng horde together, until at last
supplies a_J relnforcements arrlved
Then ln a series of brilliant movea,
culmlnatlng in the battle of Horse
shoe Bend, he crushed the Creeks and
ended tho Indlan war. Next he drovo
the Brltlsh out of Moblle and came
wlthln an ice of pennlng up a Brltlsb
fleet ln Pensacola. He flgured cor
rectly that tho next move of the Brltlsh
would be agalnst New Orleans. That
clty practically waa wlthout defense.
A great Brltlsh fleet had assembled at
Jamalca preparatory to a descent upon
the Mlsslsslppt.
Xew Orlcna.
On the 1st of December, 1814, ac?
companied only by hls staff, he ar?
rlved ln Now Orleans from Moblle
Wlthln a few days he had drawn plans
for the defenae of the clty and had In?
spected all Its approaches. Hls force
from Moblle arrlved and ho had 3,000
men. Nearly as many more were en
route from Tennesseo, but when they
were to arrlve ne was r_ nr/4 that few
af them were armed and New Orleans
had little wlth which to eqwlp them.
Flfty Brltlsh shlps arrlv?d at the
entrance to Lake Borguo eirly ln De?
cember. Jackson had been none too
soon. Wlth rare sklll the Brltlsh man
-ged to mask their operatlons, land a
iargo body of troops and get wlthin
alght mlles of New Orleans before their
movements were dlscovered. Word
reached Jackson on tho afternoon ol
December 23 of the discovery of the
snemy. That night ho struck. Down
the MIsslesippi went a little gunboat.
the Carolina, and over the swamps and
flelds went a plcked body of Louis
lanans and Tennesseeans. The Brltlsh
were to bo treated a new style of war.
tare, somethlng the Amerlcans had
learned from the Indlans?a nlght at
tack.
It was the advance guard of the
Brltlsh that Jackson attacked. The
?_ns of the Carolina were to give tho
slgnal. The Carolina opened too early
to make the attack wholly "successful
-nd the nlght was too dark for the
:.pposlng forces to dlstinguish friend
from foe, but the suddenness of the
ittack, the splrit of the Amerlcans and
the Injury lnfllcted led the Brltlsh to
Iraw back and hesltate before maklng
my further forward movement.
It was little more than a sklrmlsh,
sut lt produced t delay, and time was
Jverything to Jackson, for he hnd only
1,000 men,to oppose the great force
3f the enemy. Delay mado It posslblo
for hlm to throw up breastworka, to
leepen and widen the Rodriguez canal
ind to place a barrier between hlm
ind the Brltlsh that was to prove their
"uln.
The Brltlsh. cautloua from their pre?
vlous experlence, took advantage ol
he darkness of nlght to ostabllsh bat
erles, lntondlng to shell tho Ameri
:ans, and under cover of the artillery
Iro rush the.lnfantry and rout the de
'enders from behlnd their breastworks.
31g guns had been brought up from
the shlps, Jackson, too, established
mtterles. In the duel between the blg
juns the Brltlsh made a frontal at
:ack. Alas! for the tralned veterana
)f Brltaln's-great and vlctorloiis army
rhoy oould not wlthstand th? flre of
he Amerlcan sharpshooters and had
;o rettre. And when the smoke ralsed,
ifter the blg guns of the batterlea
:easod flrlng, lt waa dlscovered that
svory Brltlsh battery had been de
itroyed. Tho Brltiah had used hogs
toads or sugar and hogsheads of mo
asses to protect the batterles. Tho
.merican balls had gone through them
is lf thoy were paper and had spread
he stlcky mass broadcaat until the
nen ln the batterles wore rtoundering,
illpplng and slldlng helplessly about.
One thlng the Brltlsh dld do. They
nanaged to destroy tlie Carolina, but
;hat was all.
Although obcoked, the Brltlsh were
iot content. General Slr Edward
?ackenham, brother-ln-law of Welllng
6n, and one of Hngland's great sol
llers, had arrlved and taken command.
rlo planned to storm the Amerlcan
works, and whlle stormlng thom to
send a force up the weat slde of the
-lver, capturo tho- olty and attack the
Amerlcans lu tbe rear. An excellent
ilan, but badly exoevtod. On January '
8. Ite leo; tho gtormlng pai_yt jvjilje, j
Colonel Thornton made the advanc.
on the wcst:irn side.
The battlo of New Orleans lasted
only twenty-flve mlnutes. In those
twenty-flve mlnutes reglment after
reglment of Britlsh troops went Into
the Jaws of death and the Jaws closed
down upon them. As they neared the
Amerlcan Unes the men bohind tho
breastworks mowed them down. Gal
lantly tho Britlsh closed the gaps ln
thelr ranks, gallantly they kept on,
but m?n could not stand before the
raln of bullets that came upon them,
and at last they turned and fled. Then
another and another column advanced,
but only to add to the slaughter.
I'ackonham fell.
General Gibbs fell. Generals, colo
nels, majors and captalns fell untll
there were few offlcers left to com?
mand tho mon. Of 6,000 men sent into
action 700 were killed, 1,400 wounded
and 500 taken prlsoners. And the
Amerlcans los tonly elght killed and
thlrteen wounded.
There was only one blot on the won?
derful victory. The force sent to op
pose Thornton fled at the flrst flre.
Had Thornton been earller and hla
force been larger he mlght have
reached N'ew Orleans.
The Britlsh were permltted to re
treat to thelr ships wlthout interfer
ence. Jackson's force was too small
to rlsk an engagement except under
condltlons of hls own selection. He
had done enough. Wlth mllltlamen ha
had defeated the conquerors of Napo?
leon. He held New Orleans under mar
tlal law untll he got offlcial notinca
tlon of the signlng of the Treaty of
Ghent?the treaty that was signed long
before the battle of New Orleans waa
fought.
The messenger from Washington
sent to advise him of the treaty sign?
lng broke all records on the trlp, mak
Ing the thlrty-day Journey ln nlneteen
days, and then delivered a paper of
no lmportance, having ln his hasto
plcked up *he wrong packet in depaxt
lng. Because Jackson put a Judge ln
jall who. chaflng undor the harshness
of martial law, Issued a writ of habeas
corpus whlch the General lgnored, tho
hero of New Orleans was arrested a
month after hls victory and flned
$1,000.
Court orders were trlvlal to tho
Irasclble soldler. So, too. were other
things when in tho Semlnolo war he
went into Spanish terrltory ln Florida,
took possesslon i temporarlly and
hanged Arbuthnot and Armister as
Britlsh sples. One of them, no doubt,
was guilty, the other not, but Jackson
saw the hand of England ln every?
thing done to aid or comfort the rene
gade Indiana.
Jackson mlght be harsh and mlght
err grlevously at times, but to the peo?
plo he was a glorlous flgure. In the
presldentlal campalgn of 1824 he iin
questlonably waB entltled to the presl
dency, but i.-y a comblnatlon between
Clay and John Qulncy Adams Congress
selected Adams when the issue was
left to Congress to dectde.
There could be no such deal four
years later. Then he was elected by
an overwhelmlng majority, and agaln
four years later. He was not a great
statesman, but he was a good President
and few men left a greater Impress on
his time. Never did he lose the. affec
tlons of tho people. He was able to
:hoose hls successor, Martin Van Buren,
and had much to do wlth the selection
of Polk to follow Van Buren.
. When he retlred from the presidency ,
he had only $70 In the world aslde
trom a few hundred acres of hls once
tilg estate. .Several tlmes he met
flnanclal revorses. He never was
known to weep but- twlce, once when
hls wife dled and once when an old
triend to whom he applled for a loan
of $10,000 sent the money and trled as
ielicately as he could to get the old
soldler to accept it as a gift.
Sturdy and unbendlng he retained
his marvelous wlll power to the end.
Ho was but a shell when the summons
came, one lung belng gone oompletely
ind only a portlon of the other-re
roainlng. Perhaps nothing ln all his
career was more wonderful than hls
hold on llfo, for although he bled
from the lungs every day for years,
il though he was thln almost to oma
clation, he llved to be more than
seventy-seven,
Copyrlght, 1910, by Richard Splllane.
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