The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-02-09
LITE AND DEATH OF MRS. JACKSON.

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LITE AND DEATH OF MRS. JACKSON.
But we are anticipating events, by
painting, perhaps out of place, the
private characteristics and traits of a
very great man, whose name belongs
only accidentally to this memoir of
one Of his successors. Gen. jackson
was elected President in the fall of
1928. His domestic life had been
scanned and scourged, and his beloved
and honored wife had been most ma
hgnantly reviled and tortured by the
forked tongues of his political Oppo-
nents. She was happy in his love, and
never aspired to the splendor of his
fortune in life. She had fed to his
manhood for protection and peace, and
had been sheltered and saved by his
gallant championship of the cause of
women. He, and he alone, was her
all, and of him it may be truly said
| that, in respect to ''wassai1, wine and
women y he was one of the purest men
of his day, and that, too, IN an age Of
rude habits and rude, vulgar dissipa-
tion among the rough settlers of the
west. tEf
He was temperate IN drink, abstemi-
| Gus in diet, simple in tastes, polished
| in manners, except when reused, and
| always preferred the society of ladies,
| with the most romantic, pure and pO-
| etic devotion. He was never accused
of indulging in any Ofthe grossery vices,
| except that in early life he swore,
| horse-raced and attended cock-fghts.
As for the wife of his bosom, she was
/ woman of spotless character, and an
| unassuming, consistent Christian; yet
| political rancor bitterly assailed her,
| and, not content with defamation, en-
deavored to belittle her by the con
| tempuous appelIati0n of ''Aunt
Rachel, " and held her up to ridicule
for smoking q cOrn-cob pipe. She did
prefer that form, not for the pleasure
/ of smoking, but because a pipe was
] prescribed by her physician for her
EDhthisis. and she often rose IN the
night to smoke for relief. q night
! of December, 1928, she rose to smoke,
/ and caught cold while sitting IN her
night clothes; and the story is that
her system had been shocked by her
| over-hearing repro2ches of herself
| whilst waiting in n parlor ut the Nash
vile Inu. She had said TO a friend,
upon the election Of her husband, For
Mr.. Jackson's sake / am glad; for my
part I never wished it. 1 assure you
/ had rather be q doorkeepeF In the
palace at Washington" She was not
allowed to live IN ''that palacein Wash
ington." Before the day of her hus-
bands inauguration at the White
House she was taken by her God to
that "house not made with hands, eter.
nal in the heavens.
{ The Odd of December. was the ami
versary OF General Jackson's greatest
strategy in war. he had, without
means, made +prepaTatiOn fOr the de
fense Of New Orleans. He had arrest
ed suspected persons by n strong arm
he had aroused the populace of th,
city, of all races and cOlOrs. to seizy
, arms for defense; he had seized cotton
, bales to make HIM line of impenetra
, bic ramparts from river to lagoon 70.
miles; he had manned gunbOats to co
+ operate with the land forces :; he hat
done wonders IN making stronghold
81 of nothing for the last bitches of de
si fense; but the coup efe 9,lain was, af
) ter making his last hold as strong q.
Z he could, in leaving his intTenchment
{ TO attack the invading foe IN fUII fore
II at night, with a handful of men, unde
1 Coffee and Carroll, onthe 23dof Decem
5 Der, and striking so hard a blow full il
, the face that he was staggered and mad
7 to hesitate and pause, giving jackson
sixteen days tine=to recruit his force
, and strengthen still more his defenses
Z Had the enemy marched directly o.
New Orleans ON the Esd or gath of DE
cember, tie 'beauty and booty Q
the city would have fallen prey to hi
lust and rapine. But jackson pursuei
2 his ''policy Of Fashness," struck uneS
: pected and unseen, saved the city, an
o won immortal laurels.
/ This, the 23d of December, 1914
e not the Sth Of January, 1S15-h
f counted his day of victory. Strateg
t was the successful forerunner of coul
age and force.