Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-05-27
JACKSON AMI BUCHANAN.
Old Hickory Gives the Old Public
FunctiOnnry. of Amer Years, a Hint.

Old Hickory Gives tue VAu rum
FunctiOnRry, of Amer Years, a Hin
From the Washington sunday Chronicle
James Buchanan had, like most mel
a few favorite anecdotes, which he ws
sure to reproduce to every new visitc
who ate his excellent dinners an
drank his nutiy old Madeira. One
these related to President Jackson. !
was a custom of Mr.. Buchanan's enc
mics to say that he never had the en-
tire confidence of Old Hickory. Ger
tain it is, he never had the entire sup
port of Amos Kendall, Francis p. Blair
or Andrew j. Donelson, JacksOn'sim
mediate friends, or Kitchen Cabinet
vet not less true is it that, when Jane
*. Polk was chosen President in 1914
the venerable Jackson, then atthe Her
mitage, near Nashville, wrote n strong
letter to his friend and neighbor, thu
new chief magistrate, recommending
Mr.. buchanan for Secretary of State
George NJ. Dallas, of Pennsylvania
was chosen vice president on the SAINT
ticket with Mr.. Polk. He, like Blu
chanan, was q standing candidate fol
the first office in the nation, and it may
well be conceived that there was nc
love lost between the rivals and then
friends. What reader ofthese sketches
who lives in Pennsylvania does not
remember those days?
A host more, many since dead, stood
forth to fight for those two men in the
Democratic State Conventions with Il
devotion not usual in these more sell
fish times. The election of Dallas was
a hard blow ut our Buchanan side of
the house but j. j. was not easily
baf1led; audso when wegot Old Hick-
DRY to indorse him for Secretary of
State, We felt that we had checkmated
the Philadelphia fayorite. And We
We're right, for no vice president was
ever more ignored than George NJ.
Dallas-not even John c. Brecken-
ridge, who fell under the suspicion Of
President Buchanan the moment he
was nominated, and never fully recov-
cred from it. Notwithstanding this,
James Buchanan retained George NJ.
Dallas as minister to England all
through his rule, and thereby proved
that if he could forget a friend, he could
also forgive a foe.
But to my anecdote. | heard Mr..
Buchanan repeat it the last time at the
Sunday dinner-table of John 7. Sulli-
van, of Washington, one of the most
interesting and genial of men, known
alike at the nations capitol and in
Philadelphia. He was a Democrat Of
the old school-a Jackson Democrat
was a government director in the Bank
of the United States with Peter Wager
and Henry d. Gilpin; and yet he was
50 cosmopolitan and catholic that eve
ry man of distinction was glad to re-
and prompt to accept his invita-
tons. Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Crit.
tenden, Clayton, Silas Wright, Doctor
Linn, Colonel Benton, Sam Houston,
William c. Riyes, Charles Jared Inger-
soil, Edward Everett, Rufus Choate,
discussed public affairs over
roast beef, baked potatoes, and iced
| was n boy when first asked
INTO this select circle, with its feast of
reason and its flow of soul-its gener-
Gus inaugural of soup, reinforced by
good wines, and supplemented after
by u%nforgotten punch, brewed
~ the hand of the good old man, now
IL his grave. At one Of these dinners
heard Old Buck repeat his story OF
General Jackson, probably for the
lundredth time:
Shortly after Mr.. B%uchanan's return
rom Russia, in 1884, to which he had
,een sent by President Jackson, in
49,, and Immediately following his
election to the Senate of the United
States by the Legislature of Pennsyl> !
to fill the uneXpired term of
William Wilkins, resigned, who, in
lis turn, was sent to succeed Buchan-
IN in the same foreign mission, Blu
,hanan called upon Old Hickory with
/ fair English lady, whom he desired
o present to the head of the American
Leaving her in the reception
DOM, Downstairs, he assembled to the
Presidents private quarters and found
General Jackson unshaved, unkempt,
his dressing-gown, with his slipper
ID feet on the fender before a blazing
wood fire, smoking a corn-cob pipe of
he old Southern school. He stated
lis object, when the General said he
would he very glad to meet the hand
some acquaintance of the new bache-
or Senator. Mr.. Buchanan was al
ways careful of his personal appear
NICE, and, in some respects, was a mas
,uline Miss Fribble. addicted to spot
ess cravats and huge collars rather
proud of a small foot for q man of his
arge stature, and to the last of his life
was what the ladies would call "a very
good figure" Having just returned
rom a visit TO the fashionable CONT
mental circles, after two years of thor
Jugh intercourse with the etiquette of
Jne of the statelieSt courts in Europe,
he was somewhat shocked at the idea
IF the President meeting the eminent
lady in such a guise, and ven
Lured to ask if he did not intend to
his attire, whereupon the old
warrior rose with his long pipe in his
hand, and deliberately knocked the
ashes out of the bowl, and said to his
Buchanan, | want to give
you q piece of advice, which | hope
you will remember. | knew a man
once who made his fortune by attend
to his own business. Tell the lady
| will see her presently"
The man who became President in
1856 was fond of saying that this re-
mark of Andrew Jackson Inundated
him more than any rebuke he had ev-
er received. He walked down stairs
to meet his fair charge, and in a very
short time President jackson entered
room, dressed in afull suit OF black,
shaved, with his stubborn
white hair forced back from his re-
face, and advancing to the
beautiful Britisher, he saluted her with
kingly grace. AS she left the
White House she exclaimed to her es-
cOrt: "YOur republican president is
royal model of a gentleman
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some nervous people who have Oh roots
OF broken teeth, and are too timid Ia