The National tribune., 1900-11-08
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By MARY S. LOCKWOOD.
Copyrighted. 1900, by THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
Andrew Jackson.

At his appearance the crowd began to
shout, and thousands of voices were hur-
rahing for jackson. When Chief Justice
Marshall had administered the oath and
the Inaugural address was finished the
crowd made a grand rush for the plat
form, and had it not been for ships
cable that mad been stretched across the
portico steps they would have captured
the old hero. He shook hands with hun
dreds, and it was with much difficulty that
he was escorted to his carriage and along
, Pennsylvania avenue to the White House
President Adams had already left the
White House, but President Jackson was
followed by the crowd, who deied all con-
troll and rushed in. filling every inch of
space in the Mansion.
The elegant banquet spread in the east
room in the Presidents honor soon drew
them, and scene of the widest confusion
followed. China and glass were broken,
wine spilled and chaos reigned. Men with
muddy boots mounted the furniture, and it
came out of the melee soiled, broken and
much of it ruined.
Jackson was not slow in making the
discovery that he must establish something
more in keeping with the dignity of his
position. 1t might be democratic, but q
decent regard to the fitness Of things and
less rudeness and irreyerence must be the
order. He therefore at once installed the
accomplished 5. Il
Mrs. Jackson's, as hostess Of the White
House.
JACKsoN'S CABINET.
The Cabinet had many changes during
his Administration. Martin Van Buren
was his Secretary of State, followed by
Edward Livingstone. Samuel ID. Ingham
was his first Secretary of the Treasury,
followed by Louis NJ. McLane. John ii.
Eaton, of Tennessee, was his Secretary
of War, followed in little over two years
by Lewis Cass, of Michigan. John Branch
was his first Secretary of the Navy, fol
lowed by Levi Woodbury.. His Postmas-
ter-General was William L. Barry, of
Kentucky, who was invited to a seat il
the Cabinet. His Attorneys-General were
John NJ. Barren and Roger Il. Taney. All
these changes in his Cabinet came within
two years after his Inauguration.
The political history of these eight years
was one of continuous excitement. Jack
son was man of great natural powers of
mind. He was uneducated, and had yio-
lent passion, but he was absolutely honest
and sincere, and had the courage to fight
for his convictions. 1t was William l..
Marcy, of New York, a Senator, who
used the familiar expression, ITO the vic
tor belongs the spoils,' which is so often
attributed to Jackson. Jackson proved to
be an apt scholar in the new doctrine, and
made more removals in one year than did
all the other Presidents in the preceding
40 years.
While Monroe was President, Jackson
wrote in a letter to Monroe this advice:
Now is the time to eXterminate that
monster called party spirit. BY selecting
flor Cabinet officers) characters most con
spicuous for their probity, virtue, capaci-
ty and firmness, without regard to party,
you will go far to, if not entirely, eradicate
those feelings which on former occasions
threw so many obstacles in the way OF
Government The Chief Magistrate of a
great and powerful Nation should never
indulge in party feelings. His conduct
should be liberal and disinterested, always
bearing in mind that he acts for the whole
and not a part of the community"
His every act when in power himself
was so in contradiction to the advice given
Monroe, that we infer that he came to
that point in his life when he would say,
with Henry Ward Beecher, who was ac-
cused of preaching doctrine contrary to
something he had said in years gone: Il
would be ashamed to live year and ad-
vance so little as to not change my mind
on many things"
Jackson attacked the former ofiice-hold-
ers, the United States Bank, the Ameri-
can system" and internal improvements
and the Southern Nullifcationists. To
name all the smaller political contests of
these eight years that were so virulent
would take volume to tell them. There
was a reign of terror in Washington. No
ofIice-holder felt sure of his place for a
day. No merit or record would save you.