Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-11

| telling a Mexican Renaissance with strong
explosives and many a "By the Eternal''
| thrown in, when she said, "Mr. Jackson
/ (they always called one another Mr.. and
Mrs. will you please say graceen and the
General methodically said It after which he
animatedly concluded his story with an
extra emphasizing to cOunterbalance the
interruption. It was SANDER that embit-
tered her life-it was Islander that indi-
rectly caused her death. OYerhearing her
virtue most cruelty assailed in an adjoining
room Of a Nashville hotel she quickly
drove home, was taking alaTmingly i'll and
fingered for sixty hours with an attack Of
heart disease till she quietly passed 10 that
haven where no scandal is and no scandal
mOnger, it is to be hoped, will find place.
For thirty-seven years she had been his
true and faithful wife; and for thirty
years he had kept carefully ready a brace
or pistols for him who dared openly asperse
her reputation. As the cowardly scandal
izer dare never face his victim, so the pis-
tolls were never used-but if the sneaking
reputation-soiler of to-day met such treat
ment, how many justifable hOmicides there
would be
THE JACKSON MONUMENT
is in the garden Of the Hermitage, and there
side by side, under a monument in the
form Of an open summer-hOuse, with a
small white dome supported by pillars of
marble, lie both husband andwife. There
on inscribed is her epitaph written by him
self, and as it is his epitome of her eharac-
ter, L have Transcribed it:
"Here lies the remains of Mrs. Rachael
Jackson, who died the 22d December, 1928,
AGED 81. Her face was fair; her person
pleasing; her temper amiable and her heart
kind; she delighted in relieving the wants
of her fellow creatures and cultivated that
divine pleasure by the most liberal and I'M
pretending methods; 20 the poor she was a
benefactOr; to the rich an example; to the
wretched a comforter; TO the prosperous an
ornament; her piety went hand in hand
with her beneYOlence and she thanked her
Creator for being permitted to do good; a
being so gentle, and yet so virt1ous, SANDER
might wound but could not dishOnOr. Even
death when he tore her from the arms of
lher husband, could but transport her TO the
bosom Of her God"
Her loss TO him could never be made
good. After her death, he was never
known TO swear, even esCheWing his favor
lite, ''by the Eternal" After his Presi-
liency, when he returned to his home,
broken-hearted, poor and old, yet withal
like ScipiO, great in his triumphs, in his
retirement great, her memory caused his
union with her church, which tended so
greatly to console the mOurnful days before
June s, 1916, when he passed peaceably
away at the ripe old age Of seyenty-eight. |
Now the
HERMITAGE Is STATE PROPERTY,
having been purchased in 1S49 by the State |
of Tennessee for $4,000. Originally the |
plantation had LOO acres. The adopted |
heirs sold the old home and 500 acres, !
but have the right to occupy the |
premises for their lifetime. Il has |
been sadly neglected, and to-day |
would not sell in all for $4,000. AZ |
ter the taking of Nashville, Capt. Irving, |
Of Ohio, had it put in Order-but now il /
is a wasting wreck. Tennessee is too /
heavily indebted to run a show house and /
it ought to be bought by Uncle Sam as a
national place. There is a bill pending |
now in the Legislature of Tennessee to |
make Of it a hospital, but it finds little
support.
Fingered long and lovingly around the
Did homestead. The spot seemed instinct
with life of glorious labOrs past. The
mighty spirit of him who sleeps serenely
IN the ill-kept garden has attracted many
! visitor 10 his old hearthstOne; but the
nildew and the rOttening rafteTS, the
7acated buildings and the wasting fields
90 sadly tell their story Of neglect, and
with LandOn l could but think:
All, tell me not that memory
sheds gladness DER the past;
What Is recalrd by faded flowers,
Save that they did not last?
j. L. MCkEoWN.