The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-02-05

pom. "Bang!' went Jackson pistol,
and Dickinson, shot through, died
nine hours later.
IT should have killed him if he had
shot me through the brain," said Jack
son afterward.
January 8, 1916, Jackson fought and
won the battle of New Orleans. jack
son fought and conquered at New Or
leans, just as he did everywhere else.
His life was a clear record of success.
He was as lawless as a bandit, too.
E[e invaded Florida-then SPANS
without orders or national c~ountenance,
captured St. Augustine, and hanged a
couple of Britons. He sent word to
certain Congressman, who inveighed
against him for invading a friendly
Power without authority, that he
would be presently in Washington to
cut off their ears.
After the fight at New Orleans he
/ put the city under martial law. The
French consul objected, and Jackson
marched him outside the city and told
him not to return. A member Of the
| louisiana Legislature objected, and he
put him under arrest. A United
States Judge issued a writ Of habeas
corpus to take the lawmaker out of
custody; jackson tore up the writ and
arrested the Judge. No power ever
controlled Jackson for a moment, save
his " will, based on the right, as he
saw it.
He was never stopped but once, and
that was by Jesse Benton, who shot
him in a street fight in Nashville; a
fight in which Tom Benton took a
flaming hand. Jackson got three Ben
ton bullets in his shoulder all at once.
His arm was in a sling through the
| Creek war. Jackson and Tom Benton
were friends afterward Of the closest
| sort.
His greatest battle was with the
Bank of the United States, n Of the
strongest money powers Of that day,
with riches that rose into the millions
in a day, too, when millions were
not 80 common as comets even. Sena-
tor Vance once said that all he knew
of national banks was that it took two
names better than his own to get any
money out of them. Jackson's fnan-
cial knowledge was about like that of
Senator Vance. Yet alone and single
handed he attacked the great Bank of
the United States. His friendsfalter-
ed and his organ deserted him. He
brought on Francis P. Blair and start
ed the Globe, whose old building still
| stands on Pennsylvania avenue. And
| Jackson overthew the band-utterly
annihilated it. He rode in from Ten
nessee with hardly enough Of financial
knowledge to get change for a five
dollar bill; and yet he killed the I'm
tied States Bank with no more Of pain
full ado or doubt than if called on to
pick up a club and kill a garter snake.
When he was President he unhesi-
tatingly turned out of Office every
friend of Clay or John Quincy Adams
and put n Of his own in his shoes.
But it was not jackson who originated
that famous and very proper aphorism
Of politics, ''To the victor belongs the
spoils of the enemy" That was Gov
ernor Marcy, of New York. 1t was in
a speech in the Senate IN the motion
to confirm Martin Van Buren, to the
place now celebrated with Bayard.
Said Marcy:
"The politicians, of New York,
boldly preach what they practice.
When they are coltending for victory
they avow their intention to enjoy its
fruits. If they are defeated they *
pect to retire from Office. If they are
successful they claim the advantages
Of success. They see no wrong in the
rule that to the victor belongs the
spoils of the enemy"
Marcy was very sound in all this, 80
Jackson thought, and he endorsed the
sentiment.
When John G.. Calhoun found he
could not be President he resolved to
be a traitor. He invented notification.
Els invention would have had a great
run, too, were it not for Jackson. He
resolved to hang Calhoun following
the first overt act, and he lay in wait
for him like a cat.
Jackson arranged to put 100, 900
armed soldiers into South Carolina
within sixty days. He worked with
the accuracy Of a machine and the
energy of a storm. Calhoun was sim
ply frozen with fear when he finally
realized the tremendous blow the re-
sistless, inveterate Jackson stood
ready to deal. He awoke one morning
to find his State surrounded and the
hangman's grip all but on his personal
arm.
"With nulifcation," said Jackson,
';the Union is like a bag of meal open
at both ends. Pick it up in any fash
ion and it all runs out. / will tie the
bag and save the country
Calhoun discovered that one detail
of this bag tying was to hang him: and
the color left his face. Calhoun tray
elled night and day to get back to
South Carolina and still the storm he
had conjured SO long to raise. He
was hurrying to save his own neck
from the halter, and it may be added
that he succeeded by the breadth of a
hair.
lit was the tariff this time" said
Jackson, discussing notification; "next
time it will be the negro And in
1860 it was the negro.
Harvard College conferred on Jack
son the degree of LII. D. He was
rather a breaker than a doctor of laws,
and John Quincy Adams, writing Of
Harvard's action then, said:
"Time serving and sycophancy are
the qualities Of all learned and scien-
tifc institutions"
Jackson mourned for his dead, lost
wife like a lover to the day of his
death. He wore her miniature about
his neck, and after he was converted
to the Church he told DR.. Edgar, his
preacher: 1T will be no heaven to
me if I do not meet my wife there"
He WASH most things contradictory.
Nowhere could you find a sterner ma
ture or a tenderer heart. The man
who coldly shot down young Dickin-
son without a culver Of the eyelid or
a tremor of the hand dressed himself
H.