The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-04-29


They purchased together in 1894. 5000 acres, on
which Memphis staEds, and also purchased
jointly about 600 west of Brownsville, and
other large tracts in the western district.
The ane and fame of Andrew jackson viii be
known as long as the great country over which he
presided thal be reno mbered among the States and
kingdoms of the world
Like Saul among the prophets, no lowered above
his contemporaries emphatcaly the chief of his
pcop'e, their acknowledged representative and
leader, when they were willing to follow, in full
confidence that he not afraid to lead; and all
the more willing to 70 low, because they knew he
was ever ready to lead with that and st, ady
courage which is the foundation of the zeal which
fights or the truth. well as ofthe manhood which
faces unfinc hiBgly the consequences Ct error.
After more than hundr. d years of our ex-
istence independent Government, Andrew
jackson is, more than any other man, the repre-
sentative of the American people in all the quail
ties by which they distinguished.
Born on American soil, near the line of the two
Carolinas and growing up to manhood during the
times of the for independence, his biographies
display the metal of which he was made, by his
conduct amid his surroundings in that troublous
time, showing before he had attained his man
no d, personal independence, patriotic pride ana
heroic courage.
Necessarily deprived during those times Of such
educational training he should have had, on at
tanning manhood he soon overcame the drawbacks of
his conditions and circumstances by such study OF
books and men as necessary to enable him TO
lead wherever his lot might be thrown. His study of
books may have been little, but it enough for
Andrew Jackson. No grosser SANDER could be per
Petraed OF him than the assertion of of his BIZ
OgPaphers that he ignorant and iterate, for he
PgRaIways learned enough to control those around
him, whether it were the dozens OF a neighborhood
the millions of nation, and hissdacational IA
ciH les and learning always equal 10 the
sion, whether he merely pleading the of
client in obscure courthouse or presenting the
case OF the American people in 4 message from the
Presidential chair.
As boy and young soldier he acquitted himself
with credit in the Of the Revolution: youpg
law student and LAWYER he made for himself friends
and influence, which procured him all opportunities
he needed Cor personal advancement, and migrating
to Tennessee in 1888, he settled at Nashville, where
he became at once as he would have done anywhere
a leader among his people. When Tennessee was adj
mitted State into the Union, Jackson
lected as her first Representative in the American
Congress- and after that her representative in
the Senate. Resgning that place, he took the posi-
tiOn OF Judge of the Superior Court in Tennessee.
1t is not necessary, nor would there be time in Z
this addI ess, investigate how jackson acquitted
himself in these positions 1t is sufficient say,
that whatever the Place he vacated, his people
were ever ready to support him for a higher one;
and his discharge of any trust committed to him,
judged by the result sufficiently satisfactory
to always insure him warm and successful support
for anything that he afterwards sought.
When the OF 1912 came with England and
with the Indian tribes of the South and Southwest,
and leader wanted, Andrew jackson was the
among the men of that section deemed equal
the occasion, and glorious history tells u, how
fully he fulfilled its demands, and answered the
purposes of his sppOin ment, as General of the
Army, first against the Indians, and later against
Rrffi int a rain oF1
leans.
The history of Androw jackson contains no fail
ures. He never failed. He always did what he
expected to do and more. He never feared to IN
dertake, and what he undertook be accomplished.
After his crowning triumph at New Orleans, which
has made the Sth of January DAY never 10 be for
gotten by the American people, he next appears in
the public service in the against the Seminoles
and afterwards Governor of the Territory of
Florida where, was usual and peculiar i'll his
whole career; he accomplished all that he sent
to do, doing nothing by halves, and wherever sub
jecting himself TO criticism the basis of complaint
was never his hesitation to meet any emergency,
failure to accomplish Lis work, but rather that
he willing to assume responsibility and ac-
complish work his superors hesitated to formally
assign lin.
In 1928, the Legislature of Tennessee presented
his as a candidate for the Presidency, and
elected him again to the United States Senate.
Receiving, in the election of 1924, more of the
Electoral vote and of the popular vote than
any other candidate, ard clearly the choice of the
people, be defeated by the politicians. His
active political life really began after this defeat in
the House OF Re2rese: tatives. and he allowed
the politicians to defeat him ag in.
Overwhelmingly elected President in 1928, and
again in 1882 his career in civil life, in the highest
position, sccords perfectly with his career as a
soldier, exhibiting greatness in all its roundness and
power. Human greatness certainly it was but
greatness nevertheless and, judged by all human
standards, of the first and raTest order, readily
known and recognized from its very scarcity. Many
called great; few really so in the sense
that Andrew jackson
All the learning of AL the cages cannot make a
great. The condensed goodness of all the vir-
tues Of the saints df mere goodness as ordinarily
understocd) cannot do so. All wealth and all
power, C, N Jined in possession, cannot make
great The quality, qualities, required,
exist in embryo somewhere in the grain Of the
man.
Andrew Jackson was g great man. American
history can point out with more of the eI e.
ments and evidences of greatness than he.
a must be judged by what he accomplish es
and the manner in which he acquits himself under
all the circumstances and conditions, in which he
placed From his bOyhOOd until his death in what
ever places or circumstance find him, he was the
leader, recognized and acknowledged as such, of