The daily gazette., 1883-01-08
The Hero of New Orleans.

Ii is just sixty-eight years to-day since
memorable battle was fought In this country
that did as much to break the force Of the
martial attack then being made upon our
Government by Great Britain as the treaty
Of peace that had already been signed while
the battle was in progress. England had
striven her best TO crush out the infant re-
public that her mighty legions could not
prevent the llberty-loving people Of the
American colonies from establishing, and
the flower of her army that gathered at New
Orleans would have worked havoc with our
people long before the arrival of the news
that the treaty of peace had been signed at
Ghent, had it not been for the brilliant
achievement of that great American hero,
Andrew jackson, of Tennessee.
The story of the battle of New Orleans is
familiar to every school boy, and even the
dullest report is sufficient to rouse the most
sluggish nature to enthusiasm, as the mind
recalls the noble band of raw, undiscipllned
patriots, who, inspired by the presence and
example of their indomitable leader, en-
trenched themselves behind breastworks of
native cotton, and successfully repulsed the
legions of trained veterans that
were hurled against their impregns-
Bile fortress. Lexington and Concord
are fondly remembered as the opening
skirmishes of conflict that made a great
people free; Bunker Hill is revered as a
noble instance of the intrepid bravery of
people striving for liberty against fearful
odds; Yorktown is blessed as the place where
the struggle for independence was rewarded
by glorious consummatioD; but New Or
leans is looked upon by the rising genera
ton as the crowning evidence of the irwin
cible strength of the American arms, while
the halo Of glory that rested upon the gal
liant jackson as the sun went down upon
that bloody struggle still clusters around
his name and memory, though his body
has laid in the grave for years.
\ grateful country remembered General
Andrew jackson for his eminent services,
and crowned him with the highest office in
the gift of Tree people, despite the bitter
efforts of malignant enemies to belittle his
influence and rob him Of the legitimate
fruits Of his bravery and devotion. To-day
his memory is still fresh in the minds of his
countrymen, and in many parts of the coun-
try the history of New Orleans will be re-
called by hundreds of eloquent tongues, and
the virtues of the hero-statesman cited with
patriotic fervor. New Orleans will not be for
gotten while men love freedom and respect
patriotism, and the name of jackson, like
that of Washington, will live for ages in the
hearts of the free American people
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SOME PEOPLE think our drinking water
is bad, and there is no doubt of its failure,
at present, to size up to its usual fair quality
But If they want to know what bad water
really is let them taste the abominable stuff
that Philadelphia people are compelled to use
for personal and culinary purposes just aow
1t actually is not fit to wash in, and has
such horrible smell and taste that people
are compelled to resort to malt and splritu-
GUS beverages To assuage their thirst. Com
pared with the vile compound that is being
pumped into the Philadelphia reservoirs
Wilmington water is .nectar fit for the
Gods.