Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-14
AcKsoN AND D

w make another extract from the
book OF Ex-Governor Henry A. Wise:
"And yet soon after he was a lOdseT
there inEhe White house, that rSOm
was the ecene Of his private confer
eDces at night in which Amos Kendall
was his chief scribe and amanuensis,
TO write the brOadside editorials OF
the GObe under his direction and in
struetiOn, but not with his dictiOn.
| HeeWas a better thinker than his
scribe. his scribe q better writer than
h& He would lie down and smoke
sad dictate his ideas as well as he
E0uld express them, and Amos Ken
Dali would write q paragraph and
read it. That was not the thing;
many times the scribe would write
! and Te-Write again and again. and fail
to fetch 9 compass of the meaning.
At last, by alteration and correction,
getting nearer and nearer to it, he
would see it, and be himself astOnish-
ed at his mastery power. General
Jackson needed such an amanuensis
Intelligent, learned, industriOus-as
Mr.. Kendall was. He could think
but could not write; he knew what
nerve to touch, but he was TO surgeon,
skilled in the instrument of dissection.
Kendall was. But how came Amos
Kendall there, in General Jackson's
sanctum, where his saints picture
huDgT She mad 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 corn-cOb pipe,'
etc. There was the chief enemy who
had maIigned her; there hung the
picture OF the wounded saint, and
there was the husband ayengeT, who
volunteered a vow at her gravel This
was mighty strange! Not so, hOwev-
er, to those who knew General Jack
son well. No man was cooler Ia 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 a stake up worth
fighting for.
"Kendall had been a poor school
master, and was = prOtege of MIR. Clay.
He had been a hireling, and was but
a pen for the political malice of Nj,
Olay's party.
"What had he president JacksOn)
to gain by fighting the pen, the mere
amanuensis, when his aim was to STAY
the prompter OF all this wrong? Ken
dali, for cause, left the fallen house Of
Clay and fed TO the rock of power
and strength. He knew much, could
reveal much, could deliver up all the
enemy's armory. He was ~indefatiga-
BILE, unscrHpulous and able. He was
the very weapon for a pugnaciOUs
patron to use, and could surest strike
the arch enemy-he had been the arch
enemy's own.
"General Jackson then could throw
away his prejudice, passion, vengence
Itself, and VOWS, and cOolly take Amos
to that chamber. Amos Kendall was
his man, aud he could and did use him
with tremendous effect to destroy his
first patron, Mr. Clay.
'tSuch was General Jackson, the
man with whom Mr.. Tyler and his
compeers had to deal at the beginning
OF Mr. Tyler's career in The senate OF
the United States. Nc two men were
ever more unlike than MIR. Tyler and
General Jackson. They were bred In
totally different scenes and schools In
liie-the one a child Ofgentle people,
and brought up in ease, the other a
poor boy Of hHmble Irish extraction,
orphaned and exiled by war and pow
erty to build his own fortunes in the
western wiids of Tennessee; the one
taught and trained by the best of
teachers and books, the other g Hercu-
les of action, without learning, except
that which was seli.taught; the one
winning the stakes Of lie by gentle
ness and grace, the other taking them
By main force, and commanding sue
cess by selling the prize he sought;
the one a civilian and orator, the 9TH
er a warrior always In the camp of
life, a leader Of men, and In every
sense an actor. Mr.. Tyler had touch
ed him sorely ia the tender point Of
.ArbuthnOt and Ambrister, anu he re.
membered what he deemed an IN
kindness, and he showed no good
opinion Of or favor to any n who
had eensured his course In that affair.
Feeling that Nj. Calhoun had cen
sured him in the cabinet Of Mr.. Mon.
roe, he separated from him, though
they were elected on the same ticket
in 1873. Thus Mr.. Cslhonn's friends,
among whom was Mr, Tyler, were
DOL made to stand aloof from General
Jackson, though in the main Jas on the
Maysville read bin, the States rights
party Sill maintained some Of the
leading measures OF the sdministra-
tiOn.O