The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-01-08
PROVO CITY. JAN. s. 1894
JACKSON'S DAY.

To-day is or should be great festi.
val day to every true democrat, to
every man who values the liberty of
the citizen and the safety of the na-
tion-it is JacksOn's day. Seventy
nine years since Jackson won imper-
ishable fame at New Orleans, closing
with clap Of thunder the second war
with Great Britain. 1t is true the
treaty of peace had been signed before
the battle but the news had not yet
reached the brave general and his
army, so that when Packenhan ad-
vaneed upon Jackson's lines in front of
the city, he found the immortal old
hero ready for the desperate conflict
which ensued and in which no less
than three English generals went
down before the rnerring rifles of the
frontier soldiers intrenched behind
their cotton bales.
Jackson had vindicated his leputa-
tiOn often before in the presence of the
armed enemies of the young republic,
but this fierce struggle ran his name up
to the top of the column of fame. The
trained men of war, their world-famed
leaders with all the advantages of their
discipline, improved engines Of battle,
their glittering uniforms and waving
silken banners, we've no match for the
hardy veterans of the west fighting
under the eye Of the hero himself.
Volley after volley ratified against the
odd-looking Tamparts constructed of
cotton bales. Silent stood the brave
spirits behind until, as Jackson had
commanded, the eyes of the foe were
visible. Then came the lead from the
muzzles of the unerring rifles before
whose pitiless precision the savages of
Florida as well as the trained veterans
of Britain in her wars against Ma
poleon, went down, like the over-ripe
grain before the sickles of the
reapers. This was a fitting close
to war which was characteristic of
the two nations engaged in it. Hero
ism graced every step of the struggle.
Gallant and true men led both armies.
Some of England's choicest fighting
men had been sent over here to regu-
late the ''half savage" American from
tiersmen, but these had no terrors for
jackson and his brave men. So the
Sth of January 1915, saw the real birth
of American plowess on the battle
field.
In addition to this, the bloodshed at
New Orleans settled the question of
the final independence of the nation in
the eyes of mother England. York
town to the apprehension of the British
public represented only resting place,
pause as it were, but after New Or
leans, England buried her last hope of
ever restoring her revolted colonies to
their sundered allegiance 20 the gov
ernment of England. Indeed should
this day eyer be one of the most sacred
festivals of this great nation.
~ wa 0Oh ny Ouo lOl Gu6 typical
democrats of the age, by the man whore
hand but executed the wise DEGREES of
his master, jefferson and Jackson,
how their sacred names go gliding
down the river of time, indissolubly
linked together, although of different
epochs in the nations history. The
one fashioned the national govern
ment and its policy, the other defended
both right 'gallantly. Although
southerner by birth and sympathy. yet
when it became a question between
loyalty to nation or section, Jackson
hesitated not a moment, and out-rang
the immortal words: "The Govern
ment, by the Eternal, it must and
shall be preserved" Let us not in
the hurry of modern improvements