Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-04-18
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RECOLLECIIOMS OF THE HER.
MIT4GE.

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EDITOR CHRONICLE. Much has
been written of Mount Vernon and
other resting places Of honored dead,
but I have failed to see anything said
particularly about 1.-THE Hermitage, ."
the home during his life and the place
of sepuIchre of Andrew Jackson.
Thinking Drief description of the To-
cality, memorable in many regards,
might interest some of your readers is
my object in giving you my impress
sions of the spot, on the occasion of a
visit there. The Hermitage is situated
about fifteen miles nearly east of Nash
vile, Tenn, east of and adjacent..to the
Cumberland River. Approaching it
from the east the traveller is impressed
with the completeness of fittings. The
fences are fine, undergrowth, rubbish,
and imperfect timber carefully, cleared
away, the lay Of the ground, naturally
beautiful, is rendered additionally at
tractive by the thoroughness Of its POI
lice, and the brave old oaks that stand
like giant sentinels in their solitude,
around the grave of "Old Hickory
all say that some extraordinary man
did this. A little further. on the left, is
the magnificent residence of A. J. Dom
Alison. Still a little further on to the
left is neat little brick Presbyterian
Chr1roF, hr,fI& hx, fSa,, Taalroon Cor b;,,,
self, his household and his neighbors.
Nearly opposite the church is, the
mouth of the lane which takes you
down to the Hermitage mansiona few
hundred yards distant. Down this
lane and westand at an old fashioned
gate which lets us inside the mansion
grounds, down which we go complete
ly embowered in evergreens, till we
reach the house, a plain, but substantial
two story, double pointed brick struc.
ture, perhaps fifty by forty feet. The
house at once, like all its surrounding
reminds one of the iron will, the strong
indomitable energyof character of its
builder, whilst there is massiveness
all round it which very readily sane
toned the idea that the mind which
fancied structure like that possessed
force and power of willto do anything
even to veto U. S. Banks or remove
their deposits, hang nullifiers or dc
most anything. Each front looked
more like bank than dwelling, al
open vestibule on both fronts with fou
Masonic Columns and stone floors con
stituted the special outdoor adornment
of the house. A wild hall traversin,
the building, whose walls were beau
tifulIy painted with English huntin,
and other pastoral scenes, is the frs
thing that specially attracts the visito
inside. The house stands about Eas
and West. Just TO the right as yol
enter the hall is an old mahogany cbai
with hair cushion, covered witt
buckskin, present from Washingtel
10 Jackson. On the other side of tn
hall is a lackoTy-root mug, a small roo
having grown from and again into TIL
main one SO as TO make complet
handle. An elaborate silver plate Of
on the side told us it was a relic fron
the battlefield OF Plattsburgh, end wa:
moreover, a present from General Cas-:
A large bust of Cass completed the ouI
lit Of the hail. Turning eastward dow
a narrow lane, past one door, you com
to another on the right, which admit
you to the room in which the Genera
on the 18th Of June, 1916, died. Th
furniture of the room is, I was tolt
as it was during his lifetime and 6