The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-13
THE MAKERS
(By Clark Mills Brink, Ph. D)
 ARTICLE TX.
Andrew Jackson, the Embodiment of Personal Politics.

ARTICIE TX.
 Andrew Jackson, the Embodiment of
 Personal Politics.
 The most picturesque character that ev.- has n the Presidential char, ana ,sr political institutions and national life asspSr than made by almost any other
 man who ever occupied that exalted sta- ton, was he whose name stands at the head of this article. About no man in our history. has there been such wide di. vergenee of opinion. His enemies hated knew no relenting and feared him with . depth of terror as profound as their own souls-' His friends loved him with de- ySen that at no nd 5oy Sn against him. however strong the evi- dence. At the mention of his name his detractors glanced over their shoulders. sneezed. His passions were volcanoes that never slupnbered. His will was steel that never bent nor broke, Opposition %ss never 'o forsot @ &e gstSSd Sad eeuras. tat es ulted in danger. He would face attempt ed assassinatfop and not blanch. He the culver of an eyeiash. He was a good fighter and never seemed quite so much at peace with himself as when he was in a sauabble with somebody else. he Was could swerve From the performance of duty. He was a patriotic man, who loved his country and compelled ohedience to est, a man who acted according to con viction and acted with all his might, He was a man as courtly in his conduct to- %afS sSe SSs o fs ess ses %s' gssa sss ss stature. of diEniaed and distinguishedi bearing: He was q man, moreover: of Andrew Jackson was always thought of was called soid Hickory"
 Of the Common People.
 Jackson belonged by birth as well as by sympathies to the common people. His border between North and south Caro- lima. In 1767 he came into the world, so that he was 2 years old when the Decla. the age of IS we Snd him taking part in the battle of Hanging Rock, and he was engaged in fighting some sort Of battle nearly all the rest of his life. Going to Nashville, Tenn, he studied law and soon was the most influential man in that community. When only 20 years old he was elected member of Congress and a year later became United States Senator Then he was made Judge of the Supreme Court of his State. Indian fighter, par ticipant in frontier disputes, principal In were some of tSs hs smpey of prominence and became national hero,
 In the war of 1879 Jackson was commits. the only thoroughly successful fighting of the land forces of America in that war. In the winter of 1Sl5 the British iee %ere and SPerH6 nniy A Sstsrmiaed 5 to capture New Orleans. Jackson went to the de- fense of the city: The enemy's troops were composed of the veterans Q, I the diers who had marched under Wellington and faced Napoleon on many bloody field. They were commanded by Packen. ham, a man of experience, courage ana skill. Jackson gathered a motly force of State militia. privateers who had been operating in the gulf. negroes and some that the enemy we. e approaching went out to meet them, Thus he checked the ad vance while he pushed on with tlreless
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 along an old canal about four miles from the city. where he threw up formidable mud breastworks: Packenham; with To- 900 veterans, on Jan. s. iSl5, advanced to the attack. Jackson. with less than half that number of his miscellaneous re- cruitH, waited to receive him. But though his little force did not make much of a sh owing on dress parade. they knew how to shoot. The British tried to take the work by storm. Again and again hail of bullets that swtep them down by hundreds and drive them back In con flu sion. But 1t is of no use. The British are forced to retire, having lost their General ad 1000 men. The American loss was seven killed and six wounded.
 Fruits of, the Victory.
 When this victory became known Jack son became at once the most famous and the most popular man in the country. HIS name was upon every tongue, and his ex- tion, From that day Andrew Jackson was a natior al character. He did not re- ceive the nomination for President until several years later. Political debts had to be paid to others before he could have his chance. In 1925, however, he received the nomination. But a nomination and an election are different things. Jackson received more electoral votes than either of his ompetitors but not a majority, and in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution the election was carried to the House of Representatives. John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay were the other candidates. Clay did not like Jack son. so he turned his votes over to who became President. Clay. was chosen Secretary. of State, and Jackson declared that he had been cheated out of the election as the result of a corrupt bargain between his two opponents An Kry and disappointed. he returned to his Tennessee farm Tn spite of his defeat. he was more popular than eGer. He had not seemed to care much for the presi- dsncy before, but now he determined to win 1t so as to crush his opponents, whom he at once regarded as his ene- mics. The next campaign. therefore, was conducted by him as personal contest