The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-06-15
STORIES ABOUT CLAY AND JACKSON.
New York Herald.

Tennessee, for the year l796, there is this entry
1.-THE court thanks Andrew Jackson for his brave
conduct"
There Is no information concerning what Mr.
Jackson did TO deserve thanks in this FORM at least
at the court in question. "Old Joe Guild" prom
inent lawyer and state character, who died few
years ago, removed from that county TO Nashville
lie used to relate that when he grew up and became
a jackson there were still magistrates living
of the l795 period OF them he inquired concern
ing this entry. IL that the county court had
the trial of misdemeanors A gang Of bullies dehed
the court uries and sheriff and persisted In terri
flying the surrounding country. They were indicted
by the grand jury but into court and declared
that they would not be tried that IL was against
the laws OF nature which governed the conduct of
gentlemen and protected them s-0Hsae ssss<assaa-
fed prosecution. BY the next term OF conrt Jack
son had been chosen district attorney. On his
arrival he hitched his horse carried his saddle bags
into court and placed them beside him while he
perused the docket. The first thing he did, to the
amazement OF every one, was TO call the of the
bullies. The entire gang came into court and
declined to be tried, repeating their accustomed
argument. Mr. jackson demonstrated and assured
them that there was no way to avoid trial that
the law must be obeyed, no matter who 1t hurt :;
that II was no respecter of persons. The bullies
became bosterous and threatening. Instantly Jack
son pulled his pistols from his saddle bags and
free fight began in the court room The leadership
OF the young lawyer inspired the people present
who were In favor of the enforcement Of the law
crowd of bulies, took them into court, where they
were tried, convicted and sentenced to the full
penalty prescribed by statute. That was the last
of the bulies and the occasion of the planned
entry on the records of the court of Sumner county
for 1895.
Samuel Il. Morgan, who built the state capitol of
Tennessee, died some ten years ago. He had In his
possession merchants books of account. In these
were the purchases of Andrew Jackson for five
years after 1890. An examination of the books
shows that the only purchases made by Old Hick-
DRY of this merchant were powder, lead and
whisky.
Mr.. Morgan used to relate that he once witnessed
cock fight shortly after the battle of New Orleans
Jackson was present, sitting on his horse, while
some fellow down In the pit awkwardly tried to
heel the chicken. Jackson first became uneasy,
then mad He leaped from his horse into the pit,
brushed the fellow aside and heeled the chicken
after the most approved fashion. Then he returned
to the saddle and witnessed the fight
Jackson was originally backwoods specimen of
the rawest type but he at once evolved into per-
haps the grandest man that ever lived having no
equal in the ballroom, no peer in his politeness
courtesy and admiration from women. The same
is largely true of the Tennesseean of to-day Take
him from the farm, array him in fashionable
clothes, put him in the ball room in society and
his thoroughbred blood instantly manifests itself,
exhibiting in him only the refined man of the
world Jackson's letters which remain are in many
respects more interesting than Washington's. They
exhibit a man absolutely devoted to his family,
from whom not the smallest thing concerning them
escaped and whose every interest his. No
man wrote in the same spirit, and his social
letters are models from which Chesterfield might
have learned much in politeness. Nothing escaped
him. To snow how men Of his time worshiped
him the incident related by Willoughby Williams,
"Old Man Willoughby," of years ago, will suffice.
When Lafayette visited jackson in 1925 he rode in
q carriage with General Hall while jackson was on
horseback. Great man rs Lafayette was, the peo-
pie all looked at jackson and confined their express
sons of admiration to him.
The duel between Jackson and Sewer seems to
have escaped history and biography Sewer was
Jackson's equal as soldier, and during his
Indian fights of over q quarter Of . century he