Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-01-31
Distinguished Persons Have Known.
BY MRS. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT.


NO. IIE.---Andrew Jackson.
General jackson, too, was tall and II
and often suffering, but not even chi
could mistake the strong, self-centre
steady nature that marked his thin res
lutte lace The very qualities in me viii,
tired Mr.. Randall made me favori
with the Pres dent; and he liked m
father to bring me with him on many o.
caslons when they consulted tegethe
lie liked to have me near him where h
hand could rest on my head, and smoot
my curls, as my father had seen it year
before, smoothing and drying the fleec
OF sheep-a 1heep which he had brough
in to please child who cried because it
pet was out in the rain.
1t was when regiments were formin1
for the war of 1919, and General Jackso.
had his many enemies who objected t.
his having the command of one. After
the way OF that time he had fought MANY
duels, chiefly for his friends-alliance.
offensive and defensive were then thoucbt
as right and necessary between individ-
uals as among nations
Going one rainy night to show Genera
jackson an address he had written in
regard to this regiment, my father found
this dreaded duellist with little boy and
a sheep between his knees dividing his
cares between the two.
The eighth Of January ended the dis
cussions of his fitness, but not the harass-
ments given h N by old enemies. Among
cares he had to bear was the having
charged to his private account all the ex-
pense OF bringing home that same regi-
ment, without waiting consent to his Ie-
quest to remove them from New Orleans
before the coming hot weather caused i'll
ness. This, with other such causes. nearly
swamped all General Jackson's private
means.
My father had position of influence
even then IN Washington, and used it SO
successfully that this outlay was author
lied, and so lifted from General Jackson
AT the very hour l was at the War
Department" Il have heard my father
tell 'at eight o'clock, when l was send
ing off this notification of release from
debt, my brother was carried in blanket
through the streets of Nashville, wounded
in his leg by General Jackson, and that
not for his own, but for friends quarrel.
terminated his business for him, and
sent him a challenge. He refused to ac-
cept it, from me, and declared he would
not fight me. Then | notified him to go
armed, for would attack him wherever
| met him" Which was done; and
Montague and Capulet business they
made Of it; for it spread to the friends
ofeach, and one result was that my fathers
party followed that of General Jackson
into the chief inn of the place, and in the
firing which followed, some balls pene-
trated into the inner parlOr, where some
peaceful travellers were. One Of them, a
lady, told me many years after that, the
names of Jackson and Benton were a hor-
ror to her, for she had been made i'll from
the fright Her child, then two years
old, brought abouta different feeling, how
ever, when we were married and my father
became known to her in his perfectly
loveable, domestic life.
One day the President could not see
nv father at the White House, because
''the surgeons were just extracting the
ball from an old wound" and later my
father was told that it was the ball he had
put in his old friends arm.
General Jackson wished to make my
father Minister to France, but neither that
nor any Cabinet position, nor indeed any
evidence Of personal favor did ne think
it right to accept. To sustain the party
ana the administration was another
thing. and that he did it--magniticently
and unselfshly--the country knows.
But nv uncle would not see this differ
ence, 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 be-
oueathed to my father his large estate in
| Louisiana. This my father would not
accept 1t touched him very much, but
he would not take money where love had
been withheld.
"When the old king lay a-dying," and
from the pain and inconvenience OF his
disease-dropsy-could not easily turn
himself. he had the portrait OF his VIE
placed at the foot of his bed.
81 have tried to be Christian, hs
would saw. land | know l do fully for
give all my enemies, as l hope Tor lof-
Siyeuess. But | cannot forgive those who
killed my Rachel with their SANDERS
have an admirable portrait OF General
Jackson, taken before the Presidency had
weighed upon him, or the loss of his Ra-
chef chilled and saddened him. 1t only
needs the helmet and mailed-coat to be
tyne of the heroic, crusading knight; but
: as | knew him, thick, white locks made
the helmet, and the once iron hand WIS
: al, gentleness. Y. Ledger.