The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-10-07
GEN. JACKSON'S DUEL WITH COL. SEWER,
OLD HICKORY MET HIS MATCH.


Sewer Behaved Like n Cavalier
and Admiration.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
No two historians agree on the
locality where the personal explana
! ZION - between General jackson and
Colonel Seyier occurred, but as my
grandfather was with General jackson,
and has often shown me one of the
llintlock pistols used Oh that occasion,
am In position to assert that it was
just five miles out on the Knoxville
road.
10 have ridden along the Knoxville
road between s and 8 o'clock in the
morning in the middle of May, when
tne cherokee roses and sweeJbriars
| olend their scent in the air with til at
from the blossoms of the wild grape. ia
10 nave fragrant memory that will
forever last. Perhaps there are bluer
SKIES than those which overlook the
knoxville road in May :; perhaps there
10 Times In the Val u'Arno or in Tempe
wnen the sunlight sitting through the
iollage lai!s on greener grass and turns
IL more nearly to the primrose gold
which ltuskin loved to see on grass at
morning. Perhaps these things may
DC, out 90 not know, and neither did
my grandfather and General jackson
as they rode together with l0osencd
rein. 1t was the general who was
talking.
am not u religious man, as YOU
know, Colonel Tipton," he was saying,
put you, sir, are a gentleman. o man
OF refinement, and may speak on
such subjects without the danger of
being misunderstood. 1T is my mis-
fortune to be a rough soldier, and |
have lived all my life among scenes OF
so much beauty, it is impossible for
me not to feel The deepest reverence
Tor its creator. ! am iilled-ah.' -
My grand father knew that under
the generals impetuous and fiery
temper there was II deep vein OF re-
!lglous feeling, peculiar in it, mani.
testations, no doubt, when nantes ted
at all, and generally carefully CON
cealed for, like most sensitive men,
General jackson took pains to conceal
what was finest and highest in him
from tho se who he thought like ly to ms
uhders tand him. He was as genuine
IN his emotion under the fleets of the
Tennessee May morning, however. as
nc was when on his death bed he asked
God TO forgive all his cnemies-except
those who had slandered Mrs. jackson.
Undoubtedly he was q deeply religious
man In his way, though he allowed Il
to be known only by the few who knew
him intimately. Being one of these,
my grandfather was not so much sur
| prlscd at tho unusual nature of the
Grafton he had begun as at its sudden
terrnption. Looking to see what
had caused it, he saw that General
Il Sn m hn1 all 1,l l>;., l.
IDENTIFY, half wheeling to the right and
turning in the saddle to face u horse
man who had come into view around
the bend OF the road not more than
fifty yard caway.
No one who know Jackson had to
look q second time to understand that
something was about to happen. He
sat absolutely rigid In the saddle, hold
ing the re1ns with grip which long
custom In feeling inc bit under his
hand had taught his horse to under-
stand. 1t had spread out its forefeet
and backed its ears in the position of
strained nervous concentration q we'll
bred horse learns to assume when il
knows the least movement may dis
TURN It's owners aim and cause him to
waste his lire W en- everything depends
on the result OF tho shot. The comp
lenteSs or the sympathy between
well l-bred horse and it's rider is as
tonishing. Every motion of the wrist
travels down the reins and is inter.
preted through the bit to brain so
hlghly organized that the more study
It's operations the more fully | am con
vinced that Swift made no mistake i'm
his estimate of the relative moral and
intellectual standing of the horse and
the yahoo.
If the generals roam understood the
situation at once, my grandfather had
no dll1iculty In guessing it, for Jack.
sons lips were pulled down at the
corners and his for ehcad showed the
1urrow between the eye which never
appeared there except in crisis, when
he was suddenly called on to concen-
trate his faculties on the all-impOrtant
OF point not wasting a shot.
The rider who had caused this sud
den break In what promised to be q
most edlfying conversation came on at
q good round gate not hesitating in the
least when he saw that both General
jackson ana my grandfather had
stopped with the evident intention OF
passing the compliments of the season
with him. He was a tall man, smooth
shaven, as all who pretended to gen
tlllty were in those days. He wore a
blue uniform coat, faced with white.
IN the French style, but without the
heavy gold epaulets which belonged to
IT, m cooked hat, which dated back
10 Ihe revolutionary period, and was
then going out Of fashion, even among
soldiers OF the border, showed that he
was one of the elder generation, and
the light French walking rapicr which
swung at his side was in further cvi.
dence OF the fact. His holsters had
the brace Of tlint-lock pistols which
we're part OF every riders equipment
IN the first quarter OF the century
HIS lace was frank and open and his
bearing as he rode up perfectly easy
and natural. He wished my grand.
father and General Jackson good morn.
ing IN clear and good-humorcd voice,
calling each by name. My grand faith or
returned the salution promptly, but
General jackson waited q moment to
collect himself, and when he did speak
1t was in the steady, restrained low
pitched tjnc be never adopted except
when Intensely angry-too angry for
the outbreak which generally relieved