New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-11
THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE.
GENERAL ,AMDRE1W JACKSON,

Among the many things which make the capitals
and old cities of Europe rich inncres to Americans
and to all lovers of art and poetry; there is nothing
that commands greater degree of attention, or that
better deserves nothing that more highly adorns
those cities and great halls nothing that more mark
edly attests the refinement of their citizens and the
education of their higher classes than the magnificent
marble statues the great cartoons and finished paint
ings which they contain More than the legends of
their earlier times more than their old palaces and
pillars, consecrated by the lapse of so many ages
more than their present power and grandeur are the
art-trophes which have been collected in them, and
whose bright radiance makes light and life shine from
them. The solid and steady support of genius which
has been extended by all the great European nations
attests this fact and makes the hlazon indebe. The
memoirs of Buonarilli, of Salvador, of Raphael, of
Thorwalsen and the others Who having singing seats
in the heaven of art make the fact conclusive and in
controvertble.
Art is, however, the product and legitimate off
spring of the highest civilization and can only bloom
when men are called from their struggles to obtain
the mastery of nature and enabled to enjoy the
fruits Of their victory. The earlier ages of national
being too hard and pIactcalfor poetry, painting
sculpture, other than in their toughest and most
crude formation. They require repose, tranquility,
study; an abstraction and withdrawal from the pre-
sent, which the imperative calls Of a new country
will not permit When, therefore, a nation has begun
to cultivate fondness for the bcer arts it is sure
indication that its infancy is past and that crescent
strength is being manifested through all the thews
and sineWs of its being or, conversely, that the
sword and scepre have fallen from nerveless hands,
and a national etteminacy has superyened. Thus, in
off tboE
being, that Hercules was fashioned, Jupiter and
Vulcan and it was towards the close that Venus
Aphrodite, the Graces and the Satyrs, had birth.
We have just passed through the period of national
infancy and are stepping into complete national de-
velopment. The CESSATION has been as rapid as that
of Jove's brain, and is becoming manifest Our at
tenton is turning from the rough to the tender from
the real to the abstract, more markedly every day
We have had Alstons and Coles great paintings
Powers statualy-and now to the latter. the munii-
cence of people has added another not less nota
BILE than its precedents.
There was inaugurated in this city on Saturday
last an equestrian statue of Andrew jackson, Pres-
dent of the American Republic, wrought by Amer
can hands. It stands upon the square designated by
his name in the city saved by his valor. We have
thought it not inappropriate to the occasion to recall
few of the incidents Of his life, rendering him wor
thy of so high an honor The space at Our command
renders it imperative that the article shall be but
synopsis.
Andrew Jackson was born March 15 1867 and
died June s, 1916, in the 18th year Of his age His
parents eigrants who had fled from troubles in
the old world to seek comfort and repose in the new
At the age of thirteen he joined company of Amer
leans under Sumpter and fought with bravery that
attracted notice was captured and imprisoned and
from his prison windows saw the great battle of
Camden. When the revolution closed, at the age
of twenty, his family being all dead he emgrated TO
Tennessee, read law and practced IT, There his con-
duct was of that clear bold frank order that he
the regard Of all who knew him. and was elected
member Of the State Convention Representative and
Senator in Congress and Supreme Judge of the State.
When the war Of 1872 broke out he sought to obtain
command, but failed. He then raised and organized
volunteer corps, which was accepted and ordered to
Natcbez. There suddenly disbanded, he returned to
Tennessee.
Shortly after, The massacre Of Fort ALinms naugu-
rated the Indian war, waged by the Chickasaws,
Choctaws and Cheroliees. 4 force of twenty-five
hundred men was raised in Tennessee and placed I'M
der the command of jackson. At their head he
fought the battles of Talahatchie, Taadega, Emuck-
fau, Enotchapo and Tohapekf., and was made Major
General by the United States in the place Of Harrison
resigned, and ordered to guard the Southwestern
frontier At that time the British were in possession
of Pensacola, and preparations were on foot to de
stroy New Orleans-Jackson determined to drive them
from place and defeat them in the other This is
not the place, how fitting soever be the time to de-
scribe the measures he took to the end which resulted
Of al
Of Chalmette and New Orleans.
The victory to our arms and our valor is the hest
suggestive Of the wisdom which planned, and the
courage which executed on the Sth of January 1915
the measures that swept the British flag forever from
that portion of country washed by the waves of the
Mexican Gulf. On the ed of January, the honors O
the city were paid to him who justly deemed it
preserver and Gen. jackson, with his staff, was re
ceived on the Place de Armes with high honors.
Having discharged all the duties appertaining t.
his command, jackson shortly after resigned his com
mlnd to General Gaines, and left for home with thf
wamest wishes of all the South and the iperishabt
honors of the Republic
But for man such as was Jackson, in not a few
points of character like to Cromwell--ke to him il
patriotism, in courage, in purity, and in strong
devotion to whatever he undertook-there coult
be no rest. On the 4th Of March, 1899, he wa
elected to the highest Office in the gift of the peo
pie and chosen President Of these United States
whose union and integrity he had contributed so ma
terially towards securing and defending. The frs
term Of his Office having expired he was i'll 1888, re
elected and thus clothed with the ightest honors tina
could be awarded him. 1t is not within the design 0
this article to revert to the politics of his time Or +
the measures that were carried through under his d
rection The troubles and heartburnings that atende
them familiar to all and need not be recalled in
brief history whichis solely intended to bring NOR
wildly forward q recollection of the deeds, dese1
ing Of honor, done by him to whose memory gu
citizens have paid the warmest tribute in their powe
by erecting in the most prominent square in the city
an Equestrian Statue which shall perpetuate the deed
done by and the appreciation felt for Andrew jackson
! by the citizens of New Orleans and Louisiana.
DENTIsTRY.-The uneven and defonmcd appearance
Of the fnce when produced by loss Of teeth remedcd
the original rounuesS restored by Dr. s. Clark Union Ban
Buildings 2l}a Canal street. Those who suffering from
specified should cali upon him their earliest opportunity
Anew invention called guG Percha teeth inserted ilnu
dacIy after extracting answer excccntly until the euu
hardened. The may be elsewhere.
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