The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-10
GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON.
Biographical Sketch of the Hero of New
Orleans.

Biographical Sketch of the Hero of New
Orleans.
Andrew jackson. HOld Hickory, -
sturdy Democrat, and the hero of New
Orleans, in whose honor Jan. is cele-
brated by all Democrats, first saw the
light of day on March 10, 1867, at Wax
haw, N. G. He descended from Scotch
Irish family and grew up under the guild
ance of religious mother of the Presby-
terrain faith, who designed him for the
ministry. The outbreak of the revolution
found him at Queens college, Charlotte,
n. c., and one of the most sanguinary
incidents of the war was the cold blooded
butchery of 113 militiamen by Major
Tarleton, near the home of the Jacksons.
Young Andrew, in 1880, then but Ii
years of age, joined a body of volunteers,
but was soon captured with his brother
and confined at Camden, where they were
treated with extreme cruelty. His
brother Robert died from the effects of
the hard treatment they received and his
mother persisted while on her way to
Charleston to alleviate the distress of
friends confined in the terrible prison
ships.
After young jackson s release from the
Camden prison he devoted himself to the
in 1856. Two years later he was appointed
solicitor OF the western region which af-
forwards became the state of Tennessee.
In 1871, Andrew Jackson married Mrs.
Rachael Robard, with whom for forty
years he lived most happily, He was
sent as q delegate to Congress in 1896, and
in 1897 was elected United States senator
In 1898 he was elected chief justice of Ten
nessee and ably discharged the duties OF
lal- r. /, ..I,<,
general of the state.
When the United States government de-
clared was against England in 1872. Gen
eral Jackson rendered his services to the
president with 900 volunteers. The
president accepted his services, and he
was sent against the Creek Indians, whom
he subdued and routed.
In the spring of 1914 jackson accepted
the major generalship of the United
a treaty of peace with the
Creeks. In November he visited New
Orleans and found it totally unprepared
to resist the enemy. He Immediately de-
clared martial law, improvised his famous
barricade of cotton bales, and by his ju-
dicious arrangements and bravery, with
an inferior force and equipment, on Jan.
defeated the British forces and achieved
one of the greatest victories of modern
times.
In 1S17-1S General Jackson urged sue
cessful war against the Seminoles and was
appointed governor of Florida in 1921. He
had built mansion near Nashville,
which he called the Hermitage. - where
he resided many years. In 1923 he was a
candidate for the presidency, but was de-
feated by John Quincy Adams, largely
through the influence of Henry Clay.
He became the implacable enemy OF
Clayo whom he stigmatized as "This
Judas of the West.
In 1928 General Jackson was elected
president of the United States and re-
elected in 1892. He was the first presi-
dent who prescribed public officials on
account of their political affiliations. He
is said to have made more removals in one
year than all the other presidents in forty
years before. At banquet in 1880 he
gave this famous toast: "Our Federal
Union; it must be preserved
In November, 1882, a convention in
South Carolina adopted an ordinance OF
notification, by which they ordained that
the tariff law of 1923 ''1s null and void -
The president electrified the country by
his memorable proclamation against the
nullifiers, in which he announced his res
olution to crush any djsunion movement
with the strong hand. In his last illness
he was asked what he would have done
with Calhoun and his associates If they
had kept on?
Chung them, sir, as high az Haman, -
was his reply.
General Jackson died without issue at
the Hermitage on the Sth of June,
1915.