The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-15
RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS.
NUMBER ONE.

IL DcCcMUcl, ACsCS L AA4Ss Wv SSA~o~''s~
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. The Pal
fridge Cadets were passing through Baltimor
on their march from Middletown, Conn, t
Washington City, when we were drawn up il
line before the door Of "the last signer of tn
Declaration of Independence. "These ar
my pupils said Capt. Partridge. "And i
them" replied Mr.. Carroll, II see the futur
defenders of my county, He was little
old man. dressed in brown surtout and az
peared to be quite active tor person OF ri
age.
On our arrival at Washington, we wer
marched to the White House and INTRODUCED
to the President, John Quincy Adams. Il
received us in the parlor, and was very quie
and sedate, and no one could have imagine
that he would subsequently flash forth, il
1914, as the most acrimonious member of tn
House of Representatives.
We were next introduced to the Vice Presi
dent, John C. Calhoun. What a contrast H
came out to us on the street, walked along tn
line sinking hands, and asking the name o
each cadet as he took his hand. He was tn
most popular statesman, with young men
who ever lived.
We visited Mount Vernon in company will
many army and navy officers. Here heard
Gen. Samuel Smith-the leader of the famous
Maryland line deliver speech when stand
ing on the tomb of Washington.
The greatest orator that America has pro
duced since Patrick Henry, was his nephew,
William Campbell Preston, of South Carolina.
heard him speak in the winter of 1887 on
the Michigan question" when he took the
Senate by storm. But the most fascinating
and delightful speaker ever heard was the
celebrated Robert Y. Hsyne, whose speech
On Foote'S resolution was master
piece. General jackson, the President,
wrote letter of congratulation to him, stating
that he intended to have his speech bound up
with the works Of Jefferson; and The mer-
chants of Boston had it printed on satin,
which they sent to him, as token of their
esteem for his triumph over Webster. And
yet one will hear, even Southern men, talk
about Webster having worsted Hayne in ''the
great debate y
The song called 'Johnson's Wife of Louisi-
ma" which is parody on .Roy's Wife of
Aldavalla," was written by Warren Ransom
Davis. I once asked the Vice President
William L. King, if there was any truth in
he line: "fhe Inca's blood flows in her
~ r. :o1 hat ~ uoo~o1u favox,
t will he remembered that johnson was a
senator in Congress from Louisiana, about
he year 1854 This same Davis also wrote
he book called the ''Life of David Crockett
which was sopopular thirty years ago. When
Zen. jackson, the President, issued his cele-
,rated proclamation against the South Caro-
ina nullifers, Davis made speech denounc-
ne and ridiculing him, saying among other
arcastic remarks: eff the old gentleman
must be amused, let us give him te-to-tum.'
The remark enraged Jackson, who said, 81
will make te-to-tum of his d traitorous
.ead."
once heard General Robert G. Hayne say,
n 1882, "that jackson had recently written a
etter to Calkoun-this was after their quar-
el-and said that, as he was preparing facts
or history, he would request him to answer
he series of interrogatories enclosed with the
etter. eff any man foamed with rage, said
Iayne, sit was Jackson when he received
reply. 1t was so scathing aRd con-
emptuous." BY the way, the two fools,
'arton and Bancroft, have stated in their
Lives Of jackson" that he was North Caro-
inian, when jackson himself says in his pro-
lamation that he was native OF South Caro-
ina. This statement will be found near the
onclusion of that celebrated document
The inscription on the monument of jack
on. at the Place D'Armes, in New Orleans, is
falsific ation by Beast Butler. At the din
er given in Washington City on Jeffsrson's
irthday, in 1882, jackson sent as toast.
The Federal Union, it must be preserved"
his was changed by the vulgar BLACKBOARD
D " The Federal Union, it must and shall be
Gen. Jackson's famous letter announcing
he victory OF the 18Th of January was writ |
IN, it is said, by Col. Arthur H .yne; and his
reclamation of 1882, which did so mach in
Try, was attributed to the pen Of Edward
livingston. |
The recent death of the Irish patriot, John |
[ltchell, reminds me that his son was cap |
In III tOe COnleuerate army, ana COMMANDED
Fort Sumter, when the "boys in gray"
eat off the Federal troops with brick bats.
In the year 1926 met the celebrated John |
andolph of Roanoke. He was standing near |
stove, on steamboat, dressed in white box |
,at, and took no more notice Of the company |
round him than as if it was composed Of |
locks Of wood. He was tall and thin, and |
Id the most supercill,ous manner Of any |
an that l have ever seen. In the year 1899 |
, ran a race on the Washington Race Course |
Charleston with Sir Joun Nssbith, each
ding his own horse. Randolph won the race. |
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