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TENNESSEE HISTORY 8

A Valuable Contribution by Hon.
J. M. Dickinson.


movement which resulted in the inn
provement of the navigation of our
rivers
VIM. Cooke, one of the earliest pio-
neers, brilliant orator, who pursued a
distinguished and honorable career, a
member of the Jonesboro convention,
commissioner of North Carolina, u mem
Der of the lower house of the State
territorial government, and one of the
first United States senators from Ten
nessee.
John McNairy, learned lawyer, and
one of the first judges of Tennessee.
Archibald Roane, one of the first
judges of Tennessee, governor in 1901,
and the preceptor of Hugh l.. White.
VIM. Blount, of distinguished lineage,
friend of Washington, refined in man
ner, accomplished in oratory, lavish
in hospitality, an avowed aristocrat,
stately, dignitied and courtly, territorial
governor of Tennessee, one of the two
first senators sent by Tennessee to the
United States senate, who, however
much his national fame was obscured,
Tennesseans will always remember
gratefully, and honor for his distin-
guished services to the State.
James White, of Scotch-Irish descent,
founder of Knoxville, and always dis
tinguished as the father of Hugh l..
White, whose career has shed such
lustre upon Tennessee.
Greatest of all is Andrew Jackson, a
soldier in battle at the age of IA, attor-
ney for the western district OF North
Carolina, first congressman from Ten
nessee, United States senator at the age
of so, supreme judge of Tennessee
at 33, major-general of Tennessee, led
volunteers at the first outbreak of the
war of 1912, and though suffering pain
fully from wound hastened with
his command to Natchez, relieved the
sufferings of his troops with $1,000 ad-
vanced from his own purse, the pros
pect of war having disappeared in that
quarter, offered his services to Wash
ington, and proposed to increase his
forces and plant the American flag on
the walls OF Maiden, made brigadier-
general of the United States in 1914.
successfully conducted with never fail
ing victory. the Creek war, the most
terrible Indian war in our annals, and
by it gave To the Union, Alabama, part
of Mississippi, part of Tennessee, and
the highway to the Floridas, planted
the American flag upon the Spanish
| fortress of Barrancas, FASTENED to the
relief of New Orleans, and humbled the
pride OF the British lion by the most
signal victory in the annals Of history,
in 1877 marched against the Seminoles
and pursued them into Spanish terri
tory, placed the American eagle on St
Marks and above the ancient towers of
st. Augustine, governor of Florida in
| 1921, again elected to the United States
senate, twice president of the United
States, and the canonized patron saint
of the oldest existing political party.
Courtliest to women, most dominat-
ing among men, he charmed the one
and ruled the other. Fierce in passion,
yet tender in heart, he turned aside in
the midst of the carnage of battle to
take up and place in safety an Indian
babe cinging to the bosom of its dead
mother. Exalting the blessings of
peace, yet he could be so stirred by the
Joy of battle as to exclaim at New Or
leans:
"Wcicome thou first visitor from a
British mortar, long have | sought to
meet you-now is our day Of reckon
ing"
Though imbued with Democratic sim
plicity. yet, because they were the ex.
preston of the sovereignty of the peo'
pie, he exalted the offices he held, and
demanded for them, and enforced
obedience and respect. Undazzled by
the glare which beat about the pinnacle
of fame which he reached, and loyal to
the sentiments, which he believed to
be the life of free institutions, he de-
clincd to accept the marble sarcophagus
of Septimus Severus, which was ten
dert d., that it might in due time receive
the form of one whose illustrious deeds
had filed the world, saying that it wa:
not becoming that the ashes of a re
publican should repose in what haC
been fashioned to receive the body o
an emperor.
Punctilious as to his personal reputa
ton, he was no less sensitive to that o
his country, and when the French gov
ernment intimated that an apology from
him as president would avert complica
tons, he replied:
''The honor of my country shall nevel
be stained by an apology from me TO
the statement of truth and the perform
ance of duty"
The fieeting years have not dimmet
The memory of him, nor obscured hi
greatness. More than any other man
MS personality has been impressed upol
the American people.
whenever RlCtV ciioio SohiVo, Wlicl
unassailable integrity, indomitabl
: will, unfinching courage, and a pa
triotism that has no sense of self ar
wanted, the minds of all turn to hir
7 with one accord, and they exclain
l Would there were now an Andre,
Jackson"
7 He of all men presented to the worl
=, the most inexorable will, the most reso
lutte heart:
: ''From orbs convulsed should all the planet
fly,
: World rush On world and ocean mix wit
i sky;
, He uncuncerned would view the fallin
G whole;
q And still. ma atain the purpose of his soul.
. These, w.th the exception Of Sewer