The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-25


with by his friend Col Overton went to
/ another place to board, and ceased his Wis
its TO the Widow Donsldson's. Word was
received that Capt. Richards was coming
again, and Mrs Richards at once announced
her intention of going to Natchez with one
Col Stark, who was to run boat thither.
Then Jackson made his great mistake
! he went with them. The Indians were
threatening" is the reason usually given.
In May he returned. In July, 1911, says
Overton, they heard that Capt. Richards
had procured a divorce. Then Jackson
went to Natchez and married Rachel.
Capt. Richards did not get his case before
the jury till the summer term of the AIer-
Ger county (Ky.) court in 1898. The divorce
is on record as of Aug. 6, 1898, about two
years after Jackson's marriage in Natchez.
The rest is known. The second marriage
of Jackson and Rachel Richards took place
in 1894, and was at least legal.
Gut of this marriage grew the killing of
Dickinson. The story has often been told
jackson was always sensitive about his
marriage. A sighting reference to Mrs.
Jackson was, says Parton, ito Jackson
like the sin against the Holy Ghost-un-
pardonable." Dickinson spoke the word
and was doomed. 1t is not well TO repeat
the shocking details. The street fight with
the BentOns was sanguinary enough, but
is much relieved by its ludicrous features.
Joel Benton hated Jackson with frantic
intensity till the last of his life. but
Thomas II. became his warm admirer and
supporter. While Benton was in the SEN
ate and jackson in the White House the
latter had the formers pistol bullet cut
out of his arm, where it had lain so many
years, and the Wing wits suggested that
he have it set and present it TO Senator
Benton as souvenir.
Rachel Jackson faded young. Her in
di2nant husband declared that the Wing
slanderers were numbering her, and hated
them more fiercely than ever She was
very domestic in her tastes, and Jackson
WIS devoted TO her to the last. No tongue
can tell what she suffered in the vilIainOus
campaign of 1928. In these days we war
not on woman. In the good old times,
which some folks ignorantly praise. no
body was spared. She passed hours at
time in alternate tears and prayers during
the absence of her husband. On the nth
OF December she fell with a horrible shrek
in the commissions of breast pang." After
sixty hours of such agony as is rarely en-
dured she sank into exhaustion, dying on
the 23d
Andrew Jackson was never the same
man again. He resolutely reformed his
language, and except on few rare occa-
sions never used an oath. Her remains lie
beside his in that tomb which ne designed
at the Hermitage. His career as president
was no doubt made more bitter by remem-
brance of what she had suffered, and after
his retirement, when ne united with the
Presbyterian church, his supreme idea of
heaven was that he would certainly find
Rachel there"
1t is a curious fact that some OF the acts
for which President Jackson was most
vehemently attacked are now approved by
economists of all schools His instructive
dread of paper money, as it then was was
scientifically correct. though he went about
his reform n a somewhat hesdlong way.
The Independent treasury is now so much
a matter Of course that few people realize
the old situatiOn-when the government
depended on a bank for its fiscal trans
actions. But Andrew Jackson's greatest
achievement was the making Of popular
suffrage in The United States living.
practical fact he broke the record. He
overturned the Virginia dynasty" aud
swept away the rule OF easy succession"
In short be was disdnctively and emphatic
ally the Peoples President
J. II. BEADLE.