Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-03-11

a very mailman; he sent forth torrents
of threats, swore bitter oaths, and de-
clared that he would conquer Hanie s
Maria. He had his heart upon the ac-
complishment of this event. He spent
his money like water to obtain success
had never known defeat and could not
brook it; but he meyer conquered, and
was finally forced to yield. He did it
reluctantly and doggedly at first, but
finally fully and gracefully. In after
years, when he had bid farewell to all
ambitious hopes of long life, and look
ed back over the past, recOunted the OPP
position he had met in the army, in poll
tics, and upon the turf, he would call to
mind hut one thing ever undertaken by
him that he did not succeed in, and that
one thing was the defeat of the "nying
filly."
Some may think this was small af-
fair. Not so with General jackson. He
regarded nothing as small affair, the
accomplishment of which he had set his
heart upon. Whatever he CHANGED 70
undertake he did so with all his might.
Whatever of talent, energy and will he
possessed few men possessed more than
he of either, he concentrated with his
utmost power upon the object, and fought
increasingly, and with morbid impet-
uosity, to achieve. The result was, his life
was most remarkable success. 1t was
crowned with the rarest and most bril-
liant achievement. The history of his
overthrow by Hanes Maria, Uncle Ber-
ry and Monkey Simon, cannot be told
here, but in further numbers this his
tory will be told
From 1912 General jackson was very
actively engaged in public life. He had
but short respites from this date till
March l., 1897. when he retired, finally
and forever, to the shades of the Hermit
age. After the battle of New Orleans,
on January s, and peace was made be-
tween this country and Great Britain
(this was done before the battle was
fought, but it was unknown to both
General Jackson and General Paken-
ham), and the warlike Indian chiefs of
Alabama and Mississippi accepted the
peace he offered them, he returned home,
and spent the year 1916 in the bosom of
his family. He was not long to enjoy this
repose, for very soon the tocsin of war
was sounded again, and he summoned
his followers, who responded with cheer
full hearts, and marched to the State of
Alabama, and thence to Pensacola.
Here he continued during the whole
OF the Indian Seminole troubles, but
the result was that he conquered, and
annexed Florida. When he returned
home again, the splendid stud of thor
oughbreds, the pride of his home, were
almost entirely extinct. His old favor
ties, with whom he had conquered, were
dead. The mothers of racers, that had
led the bluebloOded foals over the rich
pastures covered with verdant blue
grass, were nearly all dead. The fines t
of their foals had followed the great
cheltain into the army, nd had often
borne him and his followers into the
very Jaws of death. Here he learned to
love and prize them more than ever,
when he saw how courageously they did
battle for the country he loved 50 we'll.
"Ihere they were brave when cold
blood tlnched,' he often said and the
,.T |, A.;
demonstrated in every war that Eng
land has participated in. for more than
"A century. In war, the thoroughbred is
able to take up more weight, perform
longer and severer marches, under
greater privations, and withstand the
general hardships and tolls of long and
arduous campaigns, and accomplish
them in less time, than any other ami
NAL in the world. Their invincible
courage, in the most appalling and aw-
full conflicts, can never be appreciated
until tested, and it never appears the
worse for passing through the crucible
of Imminent dangers and perils. Add
to this their superior intelligence, and
the patience with which they ever per-
form their masters will, and we can no
longer doubt the sound wisdom that has
so long distinguished England and her
parliament, to foster and encourage the
increase of the thoroughbred race-horse.
The vices of the turf, and vices it has
are to be endured, to obtain the benefits
that follow in their wake, for these ben
efits amount TO no less than the preser-
walton of the territory, the honor, and
often the life, of Il nation; for, without
them, that strong support of govern
ment, the cavalry arm of its military
service, must enevtaDly become weak
and inefficient.
HORSE HISTORY OF STEPHENSON
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