Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-08-21
GENERAL JACKsoN's MARRIAGE..

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This event i'm the history of General jackson
has been often alluded TO. but the circumstan-
ces a~ttendingi it are very little known at least
we have never met with any account of them
until now. The sdbioined narrative is from
u eulogy delivered at Natchez. Ofcourse IN,
best side OF the story is Observation-Disclosures
there is a worst side, or not, we are unable To
say.-N. J.. Com. AdC.
Miss Rachael Donclson, the daughter of
Colonel Donelsou. of Virginia, had been celc-
bratcd for her gaiety, atlability and sweetness
OF disposition. Her father emigrated to Ten
ncSsee. and, dying. left her an orphan. She
formed am unhappy matrimonial connection
with a morosc, Jealous and dissipated charac-
ter by the name of Roberts, who soon aban-
doned her.
The difficulty was madeup, and the welded
pair came together again soon after which
Andrew Jackson became a transient boarderi in
the same house where Roberts and his wife
were residing. \ second rupture o occur
red, and Roberts left his wife and went 10
Kentucky. Learning that he intended return
ing and taking her there, and dreading mis- in
humanity and bad treatment. she determined
to seek an asylum in Natchcz, beyond his
reach. Natchcz was then the Oregon of Ame-
rica. I'm the Springer 1871 she came here with
Colonel Starkc and his family. Atthe eames
request OF Colonel Starke, General Jacks IN pi-
lOted his family through the Indian country.
After his return, Judge 0verton communicated
to him the astounding intelligence that he was
the unconscious cause of the last separation
that it arose from Roberts, jealousy of him ;
and the circumstance of his ACCOMPANYING Col.
Starke, TO protect his family from the Indians,
had been seized upon by Roberts as a ground
ot divorce, in a petition 10 the Virginia Legis-
lature.
The thought that an innocent woman was
suffering so u~njustly on his account made
General Jackson's sensitive mind most uneasy
and unhappy. He Immediately sought out
Roberts and eXpostUlated with him on the in
justice aud cruelty of his causeless suspicion
but the interview ended in mutual deiianccs.
At length news came that the Virginia Legis-
lature had actually granted the divorce i'm ac-
cordance with Roberts's petition. Forthwith
Andrew Jackson fastened to Natchez, and of
Tered his hand and his heart to the innocent
and amiable woman, who had been made so
unhappy by false and uniounded accusations.
lie came TO Nutchez, to give the world the
highest evidence he could give OF her inno-
cence.
Although free to form a new connection.
Mrs. Roberts declined the proflercd offer. But
Andrew Jackson was not TO be outdone. He
addressed herin the language of Ruth to Mao
mi: "Entreat me not TO leave thee or to re-
turn from following after thee, for where thou
goestl will go, where thou lodgest | will lodge,
thy people shall be my people, and thy God
my God where thou diestl will die, and there
will ! be buried Apromisc which he liter
ally fulfilled in refusing the s~archoptmSus of
the Emperor Alexander Severus, that he might
be buried by her. Atlength, after some three
months, Mrs. Roberts, being convinced that
the chivalry which prompted the proposal had
become associated with genuine love, accept
ed the offer, and they were married in this city
or its vicinity, 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 was again performed there.