Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-08-03

whom I was then opposed, Mr. Crawford, yol know,
being The Democrat, uc,niGee Tor tho Presidency!
III iEe g:VuL. vi lis sul"iI"f h'i'.'"'y 'af''' l
imm-,itai,iy rrunir.i It Ia ban ever known ~ ituli'V
nf the name ni Jack son, who had resided on M
Js,n.e Str,ti-'. --igr- previous tn the r"voln'irn, il!
-, h,v many c~!il+r-n hey had Gnd ~ "hti sex.
a.nd what bean. of he family. He replied promptly
ina, ho knew such IL family that they lad ihr,e
sons, The yaungest ot whom w"s called Andrew
ANDY a. he called him. who WAS carried "n tho
hp-that il, was not able TO travel, when in l!bs.
thew went to the Wsxhaw settlement in \. Carolina.
No history or biography Of Gen. Jackson bad thsu
been written, aud If one had been, Johnston was ii.
litera,e and he had no idea Of the object Of my en-
quiry. Upon his answering ss above. | asked him
if he knew that the Gen. jackson whose claim he
was advocating, was the little Andy Jackson, ths
son of the poor Irish fumily, who had resided on Mr.
S;rode's farm previous to the revolution, and who leit
there and settled in the Waxhsw settlement IN North
Carolina. He answered, no-spd enquired OF me II
il was 30. | replied certainly. Upon which ne abused
the old General, aud swore he would cut MS throat,
the poor IrishmHn, to desire TO be President OF The
United States; and at that election and the subsequent
one he voted against him. The biographer OF Gen.
jackson tEa.on) places the arrival OF the family, In
1853, direct from Ireland, in the Waxhaw settlement
in South Carolina bringing the youngest son OF the
family, named Andrew, with them. Thus we have, on
good authority, (mins cannot be- doubted, for my in
lormauts survived till recently two families. both
Irish who einigrated 10 the Waxhaw settlement aud
each family having their youngest son named Andrew:
| have understood that that settlement was believed
TO be in North Carolina previous to the revolution
that her courts had jurisdiction over its inhabitants
it being included in one of her counties-that after
the revolution, the two States Of South and Norm
Carolina, had the divieion line run, and that mat
settlement fell into South Carolina. Could IT be pos
sible that two families from Ireland each having three
sons, the youngest, one in each family bearing the
name of Andrew. could arrive in the same year l76o,
in the came settlement.
AZ 10 the monument and its location, | would pro.
cure the square between Grace and Franklin streets,
at their greatest elevation, West OF The Capitol, for
the purpose, and would remove the Dwarf and its
Satellites from the Capitol Square, and restore the
square 10 its original purpose. would remove Hou
don's Statue from the Hall OF the Capitol and give II
q central elevated position in the square, and If ne
cessa.y a canopy from some of Virginia's own mar
bls-thus making Shockoe Hill in Virginia, superior
in fame to Shockoe Of Judea-a name israelitish and
Inciau.
As 10 the expense l had made no estimate, resting
assured that when q monument was erected, 1t would
bs one demanded by The occasion, and such as might
become Virginia. | should men and proceed
unremittingly to the completion, If the time and ex-
pense necessary should equal that of the Temple OF
EphesuS. Very respectfully.
BRAXTON DAVENPORT.