The North-Carolina standard., 1845-09-03
GENERAL JAcKsoN.s ~ 4RRIa

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This event in the history of General JACKSON
has been often alluded to, but the circumstances
attending it are very linIe known. The sub.
JOINED narrative is from an euiogy delivered at
| Natchez
Miss Rachel Doneson, the daughter of Col.
Do9elson, of Virginia, had been celebrated for
her gayety, afnbility and sweetness of disposition
Fier father emigrated TO Tennessee and DYING
lett her an orphan. She formed an unhappy ma
trImonial connection with a morose. iealous, and
disslpated character By The name of Roberts. who
soon abandoned her. a .r '-tt
The difficulty was made up, and the welded
pair came together again; soon after which An
drew jackson became transient boarder in the
same house where Roberts and his wife were re.
siding. A second rupture soon OCCURRED and
Roberts left his. wife and went TO Kentucky.
LEARNING that he intended returning and ttkino
her there, md dreading his inhurnanity and bad
treatment she determined to seek an asyInm in
Natchez, beyond his reach Natchcz was then
the Oregon of America In the spring of 1871
she came here with Col Starke and his family.
AT the earnest request of Col. StaIke, General
jackson pIotd his family through the Indian
county, After his return, Judge Overton COM
municated to him the astounding intelligence that
he was The unconscious cause of the last separa-
tion that i 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 of di-
vorce, in petition to the Virginia Legislature
9he thought that an innocent woman was suE
fering so unjnstly on his account made General
JAG kson's sensitive mind most uneasy and unhap-
py. He Immediately soug ght out Roberts and ex.
postnnted with him on the injustice and cruelty
of hls causeless suspicion; but the interview en-
Did IN mutual drhances At length news came
that the Virginia Legislature had actually grant
ed the divorce in accordance with Roberts peti-
ton. Forthwith Andrew Jackson fastened to
Natchez and offered his hand and his heart to
the innocent and amiable woman, who had been
made so unhappy by false and unfoundcd accusa-
tons He came to Nalchez, to give the world
the highest evidence he could give of her inno-
cence. +. ss.... -.
Although free to form a new connexon, Mira
Roberts declined the proffered offir But Andrew
jackson was not to be outdone. He addressed her
IN the language of Ruth to Naomi s Entreat
me not to leave thee or TO return from following
after thee, for where thou goest will 60, where
thou Iodgest will lodge, thy people shall be my
people, and thy God my God where thou diest
will die, and there ill be buried" A pro-
mise which he literally fulfilled in refusing the
sarcophagus of the Emperor Alexander Sevprus,
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, accept
cd the Offer and they were married in this city or
its vicinity, and returned to Tennessee. On ar
irving 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 /