The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-06-03
ANDREW JACKSON.

ANDREW JACKSON.
BY MRS. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT.
General Jackson, too, was tall an,
thin and often suffering, but net evel
child could mistake the strong, sci
centred. steady nature that marked
his thin resolute face. The very quail
tiles in me which tried Mr.. Randolph
made me favorite with thePresident
and he liked my father to bring IN
with him on many occasions, whel
they consulted together. He liked t,
have me near him where his hant
could rest on my head, and smootl
my cnrls, as my father had seen it il
years before, smoothing and dryins
the fleece Of a sheep-a sheep whicl
he had brought in to please a chile
who cried because its pet was out il
the rain.
1t was when regiments were form
ing for the war Of 1915 and Genera
Jackson had his many enemies, who
objected to his haying the command
of one. After the way of that time he
had fought many duels chiefly for hi,
friends-alliances offensive and defen.
sive were then thought as right and
necessary between individuals as
among nations.
Going oae raihy night to show Gen
Jackson an address be had written in
regard to his regiment, my father
found this dreadful duelist with lit
tie boy and q sheep between his knees
dividing his cares between the two.
The eighth of January ended the
discussion of the fitness, but not the
harrassments given him by old enc
mics. Among cares he had to bear
was the having charged to his private
account all the expense of bringing
home the same regiment without
waiting consent to his request to re-
move them from New Orleans before
the coming hot weather caused ILL.,
ness. This, with other such causes,
nearly swamped all Gen. Jackson's
private means.
My father had a position of influence
even then in Washington, and used it
SO successfully that this outlay was
authorized. and SO lifted from General
Jackson.
cat the very hour was at the War
Department. q heard my father tell, }
sat eight O'Clock, when l was sending
off this notification of release from
debt, my brother was carried through
the streets sf Nashville, wounded in
his leg by General Jackson, and that
not for his own, but for friends
quarrel. I terminated his business
fer him, and sent challenge. He re.
fused to accept it from me, and declar-
ed he would not fight me. Then l
notified him to go armed, for 1 would
attack him whenever l met him.
Which was done and Montague and
Capulet business they made of it; fer
it spread to the friends of each, and
one result was that my fathers party
followc ed that of General Jackson into
the chief inn of the place, and in the
firing which followed some balls PEN
ctratcd into the inner parlor, where
some peaceful travellers were. One of
them lady, told me many years after
that, the names Of Jackson and Ben
ton were a horror TO her, for she had
been made i'll from the fright.
Her child, then two years old,
brought about a different feeling,
however, when we were married and
nv father became known to her in his
perfectly loveable, domestic life.
One day the President could not see
my father at the White House, be-
cause the surgeons were just extract
ing the ball from an old wound, and
later my father told that it was the
ball he had put in his old friends arm.
General Jackson wished to make
nv father Minister to France, but
neither that nor any Cabinet position
nor IHuteSA VI
favor did he think it right to accept.
To sustain the party and the admins
tration was another thing and that he
did it-magnificently and unselfishly
the whole country knows.
But my uncle would not see this
difference, and in his resentment
against my father for even acting with
General Jack son politically, he ceased
TO speak to my father. Nor did he
relent but he bequeathed to my faith
er his large estate in Louisiana. This
my father would not accept. 1t touch
ed him very much, but, he would not
take money where love had been with
held.
"When the old king lay a dying,
and from the pain and Inconvenience
OF his disease-dropsy-co not
easily turn himself, he had the por: