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MJaekson,s CHOKING Raae.n

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I Among the results Of the late debate
bewixt Senator Patterson of Colorado
and Senator Bailey of Texas is a sort
Of Jacksonian revival. Under the above
caption the st. Louis Republic pub
fishes this racy editorial:
Some Of President Roosevelts apollo
Eists are quoting Thomas Jefferson to the
effect that General Andrew Jackson was
a very choleric man. While Jefferson was
vice president, presiding at the sessions
Of the senate. Jackson was elected to
that body by the legislature of Tennessee,
and 1t is said that his passions We're so
violent that he choked with rage whenever
he tried to address the senate
Well, jackson was only thirty years old
at that time. II he had been as old as
George Washington was at the battle Of
Monmouth he might have expressed his
rage as fiuently as Washington did in re-
| buking Charles Lee with sulphurous re-
marks when he found that officer retreat
Ing without orders.
have approved of the wrath that Jackson
tried to express at what he found going
On in Philadelphia during the administra-
ton Of the elder Adams, for when he re-
signed in disgust from the senate after a
few months they elected him chief JUS
ice OF their supreme court.
Those were the days when the three
western states of Kentucky, Tennessee
and Ohio were subjected to all sorts Of
annoyances in the navigation Of the Mis-
sissippi to New Orleans, through what
they deemed the neglect of tho general
government. Jackson's resignation from
the senate was doubtless due to the fact
that he choked whenever he tried to ex-
press on the floor against the Adams adj
aat~ {Uxn t;o,, t~o4 $lA f,,lf ooa
ton that everybody this side of the Allie
ghanies felt.
Jefferson himself felt not less holly
against the Adams outfit than did Jack
son, but he was twenty-four years older
and had his faculties under better con-
troll There is every reason to believe that
II he had been a member of the senate
instead of merely its presiding officer he
might sometimes have stammered, If not
Eons dumb, in trying to express what he
eslt with respect to the high handed and
unconstitutional course of President Ad.
ans and his supporters.
It was enough to strike patriot dumb
with rage to see members of congress and
other worthy men sent to jail under Ad-
ans sodition laws for speaking their
minds as American citizens. But If JEFF
ferson lacked the gift of fluent oratory,
rs he lacked the opportunity for it at that
time. he could set 1t all down in black
and white with as deadly effect as Jack
sons soldiers shot at the battle of New
Orleans. And he did it.
The general policies of the Adams party,
which choked Jackson with rage finally
produced from Jefferson the Kentucky
and Virginia resolutions which, first and
last, created vastly more commotion In
this country than Jackson's choking rage.
Jefferson was doubtless at this time dis
appointed In the young Jackson mainly
because he choked instead of talking out
duently the Indignation which Jefferson
himself felt. They We're both good Demo-
Gratis to the marrow, and they both had
good reason for wrath at the doings of
Adams and the Federalists who sur
rounded him.