The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-02-02
history, ahd history is philosophy
taught by example:
( Lives of great men all remind us,
And departing, leave behind Us, .
Fof,tDrintS on the sands of time- -

! and enduring it must be achieve,
amid difficulties. OTutor tit. So, toe
the hero. Jackson's life was one Ion,
struggle against opposition and ad
verse circumstances but from tn
hour of his first triumph, long post
! p0ned, it was also uniform career o
victory over all antagonism. At th
breaking out of the war he soueh
promotion and employment. But b
1 the Administrations at washington h
/ was suspected,i distrusted and q tim
id man like Madison, could neithe
/ appreciate nor, sympathize with Al
drew Jackson. To all such, evel
among political friends, he was il
those daysia rash, violent, dangerou
4 man. He was denied not once, no
twice but eight several appointment
of regular and volunteer general
were made pending his application
and he ignored inispite of the carnes
efforts of his friends. He was, obliged
finally, TO offer the services of his, vol
unteer militia in BODY, himself ii
command as their officer. They ant
he were accepted as such. But month
passed before fhey were Gcalled 9intt
the field. In December 1872. thel
assembled at Nashville. The. yFebru
| aey following found them at Natchez
Weeks passed. no orders, no march
ing, and no fighting. Suddenly on
Sunday morning came a adlspatch from
the War Department, dismissing Jack
son and his men from the service, five
hundred miles from home, in ths
midst eta wilderness, without paw
without transportation, without even
subsistence. There were strong words
monysyllables, syllables intense, heard
in eampat Natchez that day! Quick
movements followed At his own ex.
pense, upon his, own Responsibility
refusing to disband, he resolved, and
clinched it, doubtless, with his favor
ite solemn oath, to march his men
back in martial array, to their homes.
And he did it; refusing to allow any
of his volunteere to enlist in the reg.
ular army, and threatening the re.
cruiting officer of General Wilkinson
with drumming out of camp. Sur
rendering his three horses for the use
of the sick, he, himself tramped daily
on foot, reaching Nashville with his
entire command, at the end of two
months. Itwas upon this niarch.th that
he won the name so familiar to the
men and boys of forty years ago
M"OLD HICKORY :" the Watchword in
aftertimes of SO many political con-
ficts the exultant shout of millions
inthe moment of SO many hard fy-won
political triumphsdt O, for an hour of
Old Hickory nowl t.e e..r 4
Months passed; but even in the
midst of the disaster, the Government
had no use for andrew jackson.
Wait; he will be wanted by and by. q
Later in the year the Indian tribes
of the southwest, united through the
skillful contriyance, persistent efforts
and impassioned oratory of fTecumseh,
into confederacy with other tribes,
extending from the Northern Lakes
to the Gulf of Mexico, opened their
long delayed holtilities by the bloody
massacre of Fort Minis Tennessee
was aroused. Severely wounded in
his recent affray with the Bentons, un-
able to mount his horse without aid,
his arm in a sling, jackson yet repair
ed in haste to the rendezvous of; his
command, eighty miles from Nash
vile. Bodily agony, mental torture
delays, hunger, mutiny, everything
wrong, furious anger, imminent per.
sonal danger, q new army brave adj
dresses, brayer deeds. TalIuschatches.
Talladega, Eiotochopco, Emuckfau.
Iohopeka, all followed, and in six
months the most powerful corllbina-.
ton of the Indians in the South. for
warfare upon the whites, ever organ
1zed in America, was, broken and
crashed. Peace ensued, an immense
cession of territory obtained, an open
and broad road from Tennessee to the
Gulf secured, the defense of New Or
leans, and the victory which tonight
we celebrate, made possiblei "A new
star had appeared suddenly in the
military armament nNWhoi is this
General jackson ~ men everywhere
of the South West curiously
inquired one of another. But a gen.
eral OF militia, and he the distrusted
Jackson, had accomplished all this.
and the Government at Washington
still hesitated., A petition of mem
bers by Congress recommending him.
was presented. His time had come.
He was needed now. DAYS of gloom.
to be by, him turned into days fglory
were at hand. He was, at, length, in
the last year of the war, appointed A
Major General in the Army Of the
United States; and soon after entered
upon that sextraoi,dinary cafnpaign
which .terminated (fifty-six years ago
yesterday,) in the splendid, victory of
New Orleans. The details OF that
victory will not rehearse. The aged
remember; let the young learn from
history, Not by accident, but fby the
'onsumate skill, prompt, exact, un-
effort, thorough generalship
and indomitablc courage and will of 4
Andrew jackson, and the GOODNESS,
Ealor and Workmanship of his troops !
Zach and all inspiring confidence and
overcoming every obstacle, this re-
'plendent trigmph was won, In five
md twenty minutes, the most numer-
,us, best appointed and disciplined |
.rmy which Great Britain had ever |
lent into America, composed; of the |
1eterehs Of Wellington, the heroes of
he Peninsnlar war, exulting in recent |
1ictory over 9the ograndest5 military
;hieftain of modern times, was utterly |
,roken, routed and driven back and |
ret almost without loss. 10 the ill-arm--
ID, ununiforined, half disciplined /
militia opposed to it,. In one hour |,
Andrew Jackson had Hfilledthe meas
ire of his country'sj glory."i Hence
orth through life he is to be the. idol9
# the people and to be remembered
fter death; as long as American histo,
y shall endure, as one among the
oremost of the men of his time, ,qoQ
A great victory has been won but
he war was not known to be ended Il
'eace was not then even expected II
he enemy in greater numbers than at
lrst were upon the gulf coast, still
threatening New Orleans, With Ma
oleor, Jackson believed there were
10 trifies in war. His maxim, too, it
Vas, that nothing had been accom-
lished while anything had to bedone.
New Orleans, from the first, had
cen his headquarters il was his
;amp. and in his orders he SO styled
t. From this camp he.had marched
ut to battle few miles distant, and
0 it had returned conqueror. Mar
ial law had at first been proclaimed
\ his camp rightfully and with gem