The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-04

war between the States, and who mar ried Miss Branch, daughter of John Branch. Secretary of the Navy under Jackson, was strong Confederate During the Civil War he was a major general in the Western Confederate Army: Mrs. Wilcox's father. after the death of his first wife married the lat ter's niece. Miss Anderson, by whom he had eight children. three of whom half brothers of Mrs. Wilcox, prominent
 merchants of Memphis and Vinet Don olson of Nashville.
 Old Hickory's Home.
 I gave ten cents for this, and
 wouldn't take a hunored dollars for 1t. said Congressman John Wesley Gaines. of the Hermitage district as
 he came into this bureau this morning | and laid down a pamphlet. It was a back number of The American Law | Review and contained three articles | whose merit and virtues mad attracted
 Mir. Gaines's attention. One was the re- port of an addressed entitled MT. Jus tice Jackson" which was delivered be- fore the Tennessee Bar Association. July 29, 1897. by Seymour D. Thomp- son., of St. Louis, one of the editors | of The American Law Review. The second article was q discussion of the right of the public to regulate the charges of common carriers, the fed eral antitrust law and it's judicial construction, etc. The third was a news note concerning relics of Andrew Jackson. The note was evidently made | by Editor Thompson at the time of his visit to Nashville when he delivered
 the address on the great Tennessean's | service on the bench of his State Mir. Gaines remarks that although the ar | ticle is not what might be termed cur rent news in the sense of present &C., tion. he thinks 1t is worthy of repro duction because of the fine tribute to
 Andrew Jackson and because it is seemly to do everything that can be
 done to perpetuate the memory of the | illustrious virtues of Andrew Jackson, especially as they ilumined his last years al his home near the Cumber-
 land, the Hermitage. The article in | The Law Review refers to the fact l that the Ladies' Hermitage Association of Nashville was chartered and organ | iZed to restore the Hermitage as 1t | was when General Jackson died, and
 details other action that had been talk
 en by the State and the patriotic wo- | men to preserve a perpetual memorial
 of the great man who lived there for | ty-one years of his eventful life. and
 whose ashes now repose beneath that soil"
 The news-note ins The Review con- cludes
 "The Board of Directors of the As
 sociation comprises a number of dis | ttinguished ladies of Nashville: Mrs. Mary l.. Baxter. regent; Mrs. Albert
 L. Marks. first vice regent: Mrs. J | B. Iindsley, second vice regent; Mrs
 Mary e. Doris, secretary; Mrs. R. e. Thorne, Mrs. A. M. Shook, Mrs. J
 c. Gaut, Mrs. J. M. Dickinson, Mrs
 M. s. Cockrill, members, and Mrs. P
 H. Manlove, cashier. A popular sub scription ought to be started through
 out tho country to aid in this most worthy object. It ought not to be /! limited in amount, but 1t ought to be understood that a Yen cent subscrip- :tion from the school children who de- sire to learn a lesson In patriotism will be more acceptable than a hun i dred dollar subscription from a rich man who gives 1t to get rid of some one who importunes him for it.
 Tt ought to be recalled that An ! drew Jackson was man who. in pub ] lie life and private life, was abso- lutely honest; who never proposed a
 measure or did an act except from the 1 sincerest motives. and wholly without the regard to the consequences of his 1 proposal or his act upon himself; who IneVer fought battle that he did not win; who never promoted public measure In which he did not succeed who. in the greatest crisis of our coun-
 try's history. illustrated his patriotism. not by words. but deeds; who did some lthing; who defended our Southern coast against the greatest expedition that had ever been launched against Jus; who defeated the British, not in one, but in four battles-and who com
 pelled them to decamp from our coast
 and retreat to their ships; who in every controversy was on the side of popu-
 lar right; who. in the upward course
 of his career, resigned six of the high est offices which his State or country
 could bestow upon him; a name en-
 titled to rank with those of Leonidas. tCincinnatus and Washington; a name