The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-01-08
st. Jackson's Day-W. p. Price


against him. He was puritanicalIy demo-
cratic. He lived and died In the party
, faith.
Through storm and sunshine; through
. adversity and prosperity; when enemies
E condemned or friends appla nded; wheth-
er meeting opposition or support, by the
faith that was in him he triumphed.
u He was at once the follower and the
leader Of his party-tne follower in his love
and admiration fos, and loyalty and devo-
q ton to party principles; the leader in his
fearlessness in the discharge OF the duties
y imposed upon HIM in carrying out those
y principles; the leader as being the first
q and greatest democrat, not only of his own
time, but of all time in his character OF
4 citizen, soldier and statesman, a leader.
y Jackson was truly and prominently a
4 democrat in his patriotism his love for the
people, his magnanimity, his integrity in
L public and private life. his 10 We for justice
{ and his hatred of oppression.
Itis eminently proper then that the DEM
= Ocratlc party should do honor to the MEM
ory OF such a one; and for this purpose are
we assembled this evening.
1t is customary usually to observe, with
suitable and appropriate ceremony, with
sounding bell and booming cannon, and
banqueting and general rejoicing, the an
I niversary of the birth of great men ). but
in this instance we have departed from
! the custom. and instead of the 18th day of
| March, the natal day of our patron saint,
we have chosen the sth day of January.
! The former day is associated in our minds
! as We think ofJackson, WI tn anti-revolu-
tionary days; with the days when, as colo
nies of Great Britain. we were suffering
from her tyranny and oppression-with
; lonely settlements scattered through the
wilderness. and solitary cabins and huts
here and there through the forests. In one
ofthese lonely huts, just over the border
in North Carolina, situated in the midst OF
a forest through which the winds some
tim es whistied and moaned and sighed
with the softness and gentlenesso of a breath,
at other tisaes rushing and whirling and
roaring with the violence Of hurricane,
was Andrew Jackson born. Nothing to
cheer the heart of that desolate, widow ed
mother in the birth OF this son to an inher-
itance of orphanage, nakedness and pow
erty-nO angel of hope whispered to her of
the sol. IS future greatness, or of the honors
that would come to him. There is little
connected with the birth of Jackson that
~e care to remember, bnt from the day OF
his birth we turn to another day in his
lie, more illustrative of the man and his
glory.
A few minutes before the dawn of the
morning of January Sth, 1915, the signal
va given to the British Army to advance
A a
guarding the city of New Orleans. The
early morning light revealed the British
hosts in mar tial array, marching slowly
forward in regular even motion to the ac
eompaniment of music-LheIr banners uh.
furled, and the polished barrels of their
muskets rejecting the morning rays OF old
Sol, as he rose above the horizon. Old sol
diers were these British. well trained ana
disciplined, tried and proved in the frey
ordeal of many battle field; flushed with
Victories already gained, for they had con-
quered Napoleon /: led by the abIest gener-
ais of the United Kingdom they were con-
fident, now. o: success over raw militia and !
undixcipiined troops, composed for the
most part of rough back wo0dsmen, and
commanded by a man unknown at that |
time to fame.
1t must have been a magnificent specta-
Gle thoje eight thousand men presented to !
the three thousand behind the rude breast |
works, who were there to fight for liberty |
and country.
The column advances within short can |
non range of the American lines, when the |
command is given to apply the match
the earth embed, the sun was obAIured |
by the thick clouds of smoke ire:a that DIS
charge-sad havoc was made IN that col
umn, advancing &c steadily and majestic
ally, but a moment before men go down !
like grain before the sickle of the reaper
the column is staggered but only for an in
slant, for those men are brave ones. and
soon recover themselves; then with the
.me steady tramp, tramp, they continue
their adyance-but now bursts upon them
such a storm of fire, and shot, and shell. and
iron hail that they must have been more
than mortal to have withstood the terrible
and Obstructive avalanche hurled upon
them. They retire a staggering, bleeding
mass-ralying, they advance once or twice
again, but with the same result.
The battle is over-those troops, the flow
er of the British Army are defeated by that
of American Patriots. New Or
leans is saved from the fire and sword of an
enemy. But to whom is all this due?-l
Behind those earth breast works were men
who loved liberty and country who were
animated By the spirit of the fathers of ,78
good material for soidiers-but rough, ,ln
formed. unoiSciplined, untried, it required
more to make them effective,
steady. fighting soldiers, capable of sehiev-
ing victory. 1t required a man, general,
q leader; one to fashion and form and dis
clpllne and command a man Of energy,
and indomitable will, a man who could,
out of chaos, bring harmony; man to
understand the positions favorable for an
attack and defense, in short, an Andrew
whom must be ascrIbed the
honor and glory and fame of the victory of
Sth, at New Orleans.
But it's not because of the victory of New
Orleans that the followers and friends of
Jackson celebrate this anniver-
sary of the day nor is it because he
that victory; nor is it called -Jack-
sons" day becatse ofthe renown he gained
bv the victory. This is the anniversary of
only one in many of the eyautful days in
the life of Jackson, filed With great deeds
and redounding to his credit and glory.
To celebrate not alone this one great
chieve ment are we assembled.
"Jackson's Day''that we commemorate by
this celebration is his life from the lowly
birth in the hut in the wilderness, to tine
White House from the White House TO
the grave; yea, even after the grave; for
does he not live In the memory and hearts
Of all Americans who are lovers OF freedom
and country And will he not always SO
i've, so long this republic shall exist?
His day can not be measured by one nor
many revolutions of the earth.
The day begins at midnight in darkness
sleep and quiteness-JacksOns day began ,
1t his birth, and the time from that ii !
the battle of New Or leans, was the morning
hours OF his day-the day dawned and the
mn of his lie rose at New Orleans; rising
mt OF the horizon great, brilliant, glori-
rms orb, whose brightness is not yet
,,mmet, and whose light is yet that of the
nm lust above the eastern hOriZon-many .
noes hence II viii not have reached its
,eaf,h, ana the Ell of time will, only, see
= si,,k bc,o = the western horizon.