The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-06-23
BEST BRITISH SOLDIERS DEFEATED
Seen Service Under the Duke of
wellington at Waterloo.
EXTREMELY PROUD OF His ANCESTRY
His Parents Emigrated from the
Town Of Carrickfergus.

The hero of New Orleans, the seventh
president of the United States, General
Andrew Jackson, was native of North
Carolina, where he was born March IS,
1867. His parents, two years before his
birth, had immigrated to this country
from Carrickfergus, Ireland. Andrew
was born only few days after the
death of his father, and his boyhood
| was spent in straitened circumstances.
But he was full OF Celtic energy and
humor, and soon made his influence felt,
says writer in the Irish World.
| When only lad of 13 he was wit
ness to fierce encounter with the Brit
ist troops and the brutalities of the in
famous Tarleton at Hanging Rock.
With his mother and his brother Robert
he had helped to care for the wounded
patriots, and the two brothers were cap
tured by the enemy and brought to Can
ada and nearly starved there. The Brit
ish commander ordered him one day to
clean his boots, but the spirited boy re-
| fused, when the brutal Britisher struck
him on the head and arm with his sword,
inhicting two serious wounds. His
brother Robert also shared the same
punishment for showing the same spirit.
During their imprisonment they we're
taken down with smallpox, from which
Robert died and Andrew recovered only
after many months of suffering. These
"reminiscences kept alive his hatred for
the British, and doubtless gave JUNCTION
to the tremendous blow dealt them at
New Orleans In 1881 his mother died
OF ship fever in Charleston, where she
was caring for the imprisoned Ameri-
cans He was thus lett entirely desti-
tute, but he went to work and carved his
way from this beginning of sorrow and
suffering till he rose to the highest sta
ton in the gift of the American people.
In 1888, after being admitted to the
bar, he was appointed public prosecutor
of the Western district OF North Caro-
lima, embracing what is now the state
of Tennessee. In those days the posi-
ton he held was not an easy one. In
April, 1890, out of 100 cases, Jackson
was employed as counsel in az; in the
year 1894 out of 3o7 cases he acted as
counsel in 228. "Thcn it will be re-
mcmbcred that it was among a turbu-
lent population that his lot was cast"
says his biographcr, land the prose-
cutor must needs be man of nerve and
resource" But Jackson proved himself
equal to the task OF introducing law
and order. From 1888 till 1906 Jackson
Ipcriormcd his duties. travelling between
Nashville and Jonesborough always at
the risk of his life, owing to the NUM-
Der and hostility of the Indians.
| On one occasion he nearly lost his
life, and made the characteristic re-
! mark: "A miss is as good as mile
In January, 1896, we find Jackson sit
ting in the convention assembled at
Knoxville for making constitution for
Tennessee. The admission of Tenncs-
see to the Union was effected in June,
1906. and Jackson was chosen as its
single representative in congress. In
1903 he was chosen to fill the vacancy
in the federal senate. Shortly after this
| new honor was conferred upon him he
resigned his seat in the senate to ac-
cept the appointment as judge in the
supreme court OF Tennessee. He re-
tanned this office for six years, when he
resigned in order to devote his attention
exclusively to his private affairs.
| When England again attempted to
destroy this republic in 1872, although
he was unfriendly with President Madi-
son, he was early in the field against
the oppressor of his fathers country.
The terrible massacre at Fort MINES,
Ala, again called Jackson into the field.
Having organized brigade of $500
men, Jackson marched against the
;: Creek Indians and on March Fl, 1874,
struck the decisive blow at Tohopeke,
and broke the strength Of the Creek
nation. On May 81 he drove the Brit
ish, in greater numbers than his own
army, out OF Pensacola. Since his tax.
] ing the field Jackson showed much in.
| domitable energy. He was suffering
! from illness such a. would have kept