Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-02-15
nNrcnoTEs OF GENERaL JACKsoSI.

time that Jackson was WaSlnG war win
the United States Banksin this country.
The Emperor Nicholas treated the unfor-
tunate Poles with extraordinary severity,
and was. terribly and justlyfscored for it by
the press of this country. about the same
time the press was heapingal sorts OF abuse
upon Gen. Jackson for, opposing the rechar-
ter of the United States Bank. The Rus.
sian Minister, then at Washington, was
greatly annoyed BY the abuse of his Emperor
a and master. He determined to appeal to the
government to have the evil remeded, and
Collected from the miscellaneous press a
numerous array of articles bearing down
very strongly on Nicholas, showing them to
the Secretary of State, and Sdemanded that
this abuse should. cease, or3he would hold
the government responsiblesand the peace
full relations of the two nations would be
interrupted. The. SecretarYof State in vain
attempted to explain to hinEthe freedom of
the press, and that the AMERICAN government
had no more power oyer it upon such subject
than Nicholas HIMSELF: The Russians Min
lister regarded this agF a mere@asubterfuge,
and grew very angry: He fnallycoucluded
to appeal to Gen, Jackson himself upon the
subject, and producing his collection of
newspaper denuncaiion, laid his grievances
before the old hero. Gen.IJackson heard
him patiently, and after he. was through,
pleasantly, complimented hin, on his indus
try in searching the papers but, said he,
"Look over them again, audif you do not
find that am called tryant, rascal, fool, and
all sorts Of foul names, ten times for every
mention of Nicholass name,I ] will have the
thing stopped at once" This sort Of reaso.
ming threw new flood Of light npon the
mind of the Russian Minister He then
comprehended what the freedom of the press
meant in this country, and readily perceived
that Jackson could not be expected to stop
the press from abusing Nicholas, when it
was every day boldly assailing himself. He
accordingly dropped the subject.
The other anecdote describes thing that
happened very rarely; it states how Gen.
Jackson got frightened.
This occurred soon after the attempt was
made to assassinate him, an event which nat!
urally aroused the fears of his friends for his
safety, and they recommended to him the
utmost caution against exposing himself to
any more such attacks. One afternoon he
reclining on sofa in one of the rooms OF
the White House, alone smoking "a pipe.
About this period new foreign minister
from Portugal we think, unaccustomed to
Republican simplicity had arrived, and went
up to the White House to pay the General
d visit. He was atlired in full Court CO.'S
tune, all bedizened with gold lace, &c. and
wearing sword. No one happened to be
there to introduce him, and he found his
way unannounced into the room in which
Gen. Jackson was lazily ruminating upon
his recent narrow escape from the pistol of
an assassin. The sudden appearance of the
Minister reused the old man from his re-
veries, and he gazed at the intruder with as
tonishment, not altogether unmingled with
fear, as be proceeded to bow and grimace at
a desperate rate. Gen. Jackson could stand
it no longer, but seizing chair brandished
it before him, and in stentorian voice cried
out, "In the name of God, who and what
you The Portuguese Minister soon man.
aged to give him an idea of who and what
he was, when Gen. Jackson sent down to
his kitchen for French cook, he had, to
act as an interpreter, and in this way they
managed to have satisfactory interview.