Wilmington journal., 1872-01-05
Jackson and Amos Kendall.

In the book just issued by Hon. Henry
A. Wise, there is, among other reminis-
cenceS, the following:
And yet, soon after he was il lodges; there.
that room was the scene of his private con
ferenccs at nigh i'll which Amos Kendall
was his chief scribe and amanIensis. to
write the brOadside editorials of the GIObe
under his dictatiOn and instructicrs, but
not with his diction. lie was a better
thinker than his scribe, his scrib. n better
writer than he. He would lie down and
smoke and dictate his ideas as well as he
could express them, and Amos Kendall
would write paragraph and read it. That
was not the thing; many times the scribe
would write and rewrite again and again.
and fail to fetch compass of the mean
ing. y: lust, by alteration and correction
getting nearer and nearer to it, he would
see it, and be himself astonished at its
mastery power.
General jackson needed such an amanu-
ensis-intelligent, learned, industrious-as
Mr.. Kendall was. lie could think. but
could not write; he knew what nerve to
touch, but lac was no surgeon skilled in the
instrument of dissection. Kendall was.
But how came Amos Kendall there, i'm
General JacksonS sanctIun, where his
saints picture hung? She had been most
maligned by AMOS Kendall, the editor of
Clay's leading journal in Kentucky, during
the canvass. Kendall had called her AUNT
Rachel, with the corIl-cob pipe and hal
exaggerated ROb;rd's wrongs and RachcI's
failing In every tenn Of rcproach and ridi-
cule.
There was the chief enemy who had ma
lSned her, there Was the picture of the
wounded saint, and there was the husband
avenger who volunteered VOW at her
grave! This was mighty strange. Not
SO, however, to those WHO knew General
jackson well. No man was cooler in his
calculations than he was. lie would
sometimes seem to fight most rashly, but
no one ever knew him to fight at all unless
there was stake up worth fighting for.
Kendall had been poor ankee school
master, and was prOtege of Mr.. Clay.
lie had been but Il hirClng, and was but a
pen Tor the political malice Of Mr.. Claws
party.
WHAT had he president Jacksom to Gain
by lighting the pen, the mere amanIensis.
when his aim was to slay the prompter of
all his wrongs Kendall, for cause, left the
fallen house of Clay and fled to the rock Of
power and strength. lie knew much, could
reveal much, could deliver UID all the enc
mys armory. lie was indefatiSabIe, un-
and able. He was the very
weapon for a rugnacious patron to use, and
could suIreSt strike the arch enemy-he had
been the arch cnCmy'S own.
General jackson then could throw AWAY ,
passion, vengeance itself, and.
VOWS, and cOOlly take Amos to that cham
Der, in presence of that picture, though he
had applied the . Scavenger's daughter of |
torture to . Aunt Rachel!" Amos Kendall /
was his man, and he could and did use him
With tremendous effect to DESTROY his first
patron, Mr.. Clay.
Such was General Jackson. the man with
whom Mr.. Tyler and his compee,s had to
leal at the beginning of Mr.. Tyler's career
n the Senate of the United States No
NO men were ever more unlike than MI !
Fyler and Gen. jackson. They were bred
n totally different scenes and schools in life
the one child of gentle people and
'rouSht up i'll ease, the other poor boy of
tumble Irish extraction, orphaned and ex-
led by War and poverty to build his own
ortunes in the western wilds of Tennessee:
lie one SIT and trained by the
cst ef TIA les ana hCcks, the other a
lerclucS Of action, without learning. ex-
ept that Which was self-taught; the one
winning the stakes Of life by gentleness
hd grace, the other taking them by main
orce ana commanding success by seizing ;
ne prize he sought; the one civilian and
razor, tht other warrior always in the [
amp OF lie, leader of men, and in every .
1hSe tremendous actor. Mr.. TYLER had 6
'uched nm sorely in the tender point of
and Ambrister, and he remem-
cred what he deemed an unkindnesS and
e showed no good opinion of OF favor to 1
ny one who had censured his course in ]
lat affair. Feeling that Mr.. Calhoun had q
ensured him in the Cabinet of Mr.. Mon t.