The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-11

elsoD, ofVrgna had been celebrated for her gayety,
afability and sweetness of disposition Her father
emigmted TO Tennessee, and, dying, left her an or
phan. She formed an unhappy matrimonial con-
nexion with morose, Jealous and dissipated chsr.
acter by the name Of Roberts, who soon abandoned
her. The difficulty was made up, and the welded
pair came together again; soon after which, Andrew
Jackson become a transient boarder In the same
house where Roberts and his wife were residing.
A second rupture soon occurred, and Roberts left
his wife and went to Kentucky. Learning that he
intended returning and taking her there, and dread
ing his inhumanty and bad treatment, she deter
mined to seek an asylum in Naichez, beyond his
reach Natchez then the Oregon of America.
In the spring of 1884, she came here with Col.
Sarke and his family. At the earnest request of
Col Starke Gen. Jackson piloted his family through
the Indian country. After his return, Judge Over
ton communicated to him the astounding intellI-
gence that he the unconscious cause of the last
separation; that il from Robers's jealousy of
him; and the circumstance of his accompanying
Col Stmke, to protect his family from the Indians,
had been seized upon by Roberts ground of
divorce, in petition TO the Virginia legislature.
The thought that innocent woman was suf-
fering so unustly on his account, made General
Jackson's sensitive mind most uneasy and unhappy.
Ne immediately sought out Roberts, and expostula-
ted with him the injustice and cruelty ofhis cause
less suspicion; but the interview ended in mutual
defances. At LENGTH news came that the Virginia
legislature nau aCtuaHy Srunttu the III dC-
cordance with Roberts's petition, Forthwith An
drew Jackson FASTENED TO Natchez, and offered his
hand and his heart to the innocent and amiabe
woman, who had been made so unhappy by false
and unfounded accusations. He came to Natchez,
to give the world the highest evidence he could give
of her innocence. Although free TO form new
connexon, Mrs Roberts declined the profered offer
But Andrew Jackson was not to be outdone. He
addressed her in the language Of Ruth TO Naomi:
"Entreat not to leave thee TO return from fol-
lowing after thee, for where thou goest will go,
| where thou lodgest will lodge, thy people shall
be my people, and thy God my God where thou
diest / will die and there will be buried" A
promise which he literally fulfilled in refusing the
sarcophagus Of the Emperor Alexander Severus,
that he might be buried by her. At length, after
| some three months, Mrs. Roberts being convinced
that the chivalry which prompted the proposal had
become associated with genuine love- accepted the
Offer and they married in this city its vcin
ity, and returned to Tennessee. On arriving there
finding that the divorce had not gone through all
the forms required by the laws Of Virginia, at the
time of their marriage here, the ceremony again
| performed there. Neither absence, nor age, nor
the death of the loved object which he wooed and
won in this city, ffty-four years ago, abated the
ardor of his attachment. In health, he wore her
likeness nearest his heart; and in his Illness he had
it placed where he could gaze upon il from his bed
! Her image was one of the angels which made up
| the society of heaven, and converse with her he
considered to be no small part of the happiness OF
that eternal home where he has gone. Some of the
friends of General Jackson, (and, among Others the
venerable editor of the Washington "Union,'') have
unconsciously done him the injustice to call this
ardent attachment romantic" II was not romance,
however, which linked the soul Of Jackson so in-
dissoubly to his beloved wife; but it was divine
affinity, sacred attraction between two kindred
souls. Through youth and through age, in Joy and
in sorrow, she had given her whole heart to a mos,
benefcent design of Providence 'that Andrew Jack.
son should rise to the abodes of the blessed to
dwell through all eternity with George Washing
| ton." Had she been woman whose virtues had
been less chastcned by atiecton-had she not been
taught by experience the vanity of human things
and the emptiness Of worldly glory and fame, she
would not have been fit instrument in the hands
temperament ''the way to gain the victory over
self, to conquer death, and win place in heaven"