Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-01-07

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niversary Of the battle Of New Orleans
wo have thought proper day In ad
vance. to give our views about that won
dorful achievement and It's hero. We
have no hesitation in saying that the
unexsmpled prosperity and happiness
Of these United States have much re.
suited from the skill and courage Of
General Jackson upon the battlefield
sixty.seven years ago o-morrow-and
bis subsequent political chieftenship. 1t
will do us no harm to turn our thoughts
backward to the dangerous and stirring
times Of our past history.
The Battle orNew Orleans nnd Its
Hero.
Gregariousness is q distinctive element
Of mind and matter, and is detected
equally in the rock, the shrub, the fish,
tho brute creation, and their great mas.
ter, man. II Is no startling proposition
that oach individual in community in.
fIuencos, to some extent, the masses that
surround him. A grain OF carmine viii
tingc hogshead of water. II may not
bc perceptible to tho naked eye, but the
effect is no less certain. The moral
control oxertod by the old lion of the
Hermitage, upon his fellow citizens, is
ono branch Of our subject. 1t is better
at the onset to contemplate our hero as
roflex or creation of tho times In which
hc enacted part now become historical
A prominent man illustrates in his pc.
culiarities the character Of his nation,
Ho may manifest violence in the &c.
contricity. but the germ and nutrition
of development can bo traced to the peo
plo Of his childhood and maturer years.
Napoleon was the Legitimate offspring Of
. tumultuous and aimless revolution.
He was the arrow shot from the bow of
dari ng anarchy embodiment Of
French bravery and French atheism and
French rcstlessncss. Tho bold free.
booter, Romulus. was equally type of
Rome in Its vigorous and lawless incipi.
oncy, as tho Borgia Of tho corrupt eiIem-
inacy and cruel finesse Of the Inter days
Of the Roman Empire. The poet who
fought beside his chieftain and sang his
rough epic full of martial strains, was o
typo OF the earlier days Of Greece. The
eowardly songster, who fed the battle
field and attuned his harp to grottocs
and love plants, revealed the cow.
ardice and luxurious abandonment
OF that land Of broken statues, and
weak men and abandoned women.
And then, again, each nation that
history records, has been creature of
infancy, growth and graduation; and
equally so whether parcelled from
another nation or sprung from adven.
turous exiles.
The poor laboret with his large hands
and humble wife has sorry time of ii
at first. His cabin il small and rude.
As thrift dawns upon him, comforts arc
succeeded by luxuries. He tenants a
proud edifioe, and becomes idle and cor.
pulont and equity. Races of men may
glide away ere nation becomes afiluent
and luxurious, yet the poor man Is a
parallel Of national phases.
What now constitutes the throbbing
heart of our vigorous Republic a century
or so ago was waste. tonanted by swart
savages. The European explorer leaped
over the talrail of his big vessel, and
ut once was heard the woodman's axe,
tthe forest clock was heard the carol
of merry plowmen--wa heard the
sharp crack of huntsman's rife.
Strength of muscle, frugality, fearless
ness and quick decision are tho qualities
that life in the wilderness en-.
genders. There is no time for the
slow assertion of teohnicalities of law,
born of laborious analysis. We should
say frontiersman differs essentially
from a metropolitan. We should say
that the infancy of these United States,
whose lullaby was the war whoop and
howl of wild beasts-whose toys were
the dash;ng steod and the death dealing
rifle, would produce different order of
men than these same United States
in the strength OF maturity, and
peace, and plenty, and refined lois
ure. Tho times create the man,
and we estimate him in connection with
those times A silly moralst is he who
would weigh the Hindoo in the same
scales with the polished Parisian.
II there were errors in the career OF
Andrew Jackson, we shall, as our argu,
ment intimates, seek palliation in the
wild jostling OF our land in its early
settlement, in its bloody exodus from
revolutionary struggle, and in the hor-
rors of its later Indian difficulties.
Those periods demanded different souls
and different deeds from the present,
and would excuse many an act which
seems rough.
Jackson was eminently u man OF ex.
tremes. We array his good elements
sgainst his bad. We have no fears for
the moral quotient.
In 1865 vessel modestly crept into
the harbor of Charleston having on
board Protestant family from the north
of Ireland. Two years after was born
to that family the subject OF our briei
memoir. His mother, lady OF earnest
religious principles, devoted her boy ia
the Church, We have reason to believe
that Andrew never became herald OF
the Cross. Staggering under musket
at the age of thirteen, he fought his
first battle under General Sumpter. He
was wounded and taken prisoner. Al
fifteen he was alone in the world, with
ont parents or collateral relatives, He
became dissipated and sQuandered hi.
patrimony. At nineteen he was admit
ted to the bar, and at twenty-one ap
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