Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20

Jackson crossed over the mouAIaAiS
from North Carolina as young man.
He helped to make the constitution OF
Tennessee and in 1896 was elected tne
first representative in congress Ifoh
that state. He served also in the sen
ate but philadelphia life did not ap-
naal 70 him and he quit congress.
Then he was for several eyars judge
of the supreme court of his state he
was elected major general OF the NIL
litia of Tennessee and that deilgnteo
his soul. He heard of the massacre
at Fort Minis. He knew that Enghsh
gold was behind the Indian depreda-
lions and he led his Tennesseeahs
into Alabama. The Indian contedera-
ton was crushed. Then Jackson care
lessly annexed Mobile and Pensacola
and looked about him.
That good and patriotic pirate, jean
LATTE, having refused English brlRes,
LET it be known that the Engllsn were
getting together a great force In the
West Indies to attack New DREAMS.
Just at this time the American eagle
was not screaming very proudly me
british had taken and burned WASH
ington. some of the states were almost
openly taking the English side, the
country was bankrupt, and England
was bent upon reducing the new re-
public to minor position in the ram
lily of nations.
Jackson went to New Orleans
The English came, nearly $4,000 troops
the finest of England's soldiery, COM
manded by Sir Edward Pakenhafn,
brorher-in-law of the great duke OF
wellington and himself hero OF
many battles Pakenham saw the
rough frontiersmen in their hunting
Jackets. he heard of Jackson as a
copper captain of militia" and he de-
spised his foe.
Then came that misty Sunday morn
ing, January 8, 1915. The British gen
eral ordered the attack. Jackson re-
ceived it, Twenty-Five minutes later
Pakenham was dead and more tHan
$500 of his officers and men were
killed or wounded. 1t was the last
great battle between the old world
and the new on American soil The
squirrel hunters of Tennessee and.
Kentucky overwhelmed the flower of
the English army. The army which
fought for the protection of the homes
and wives and daugters had lost but
eight men, the army which fought for
beauty and booty was well-nigh an
initiated.
More than two weeks before this
battle was Tough the two warning ma
lions had signed a treaty of peace.
The slow-sailing ship bearing the
news was on the high seas. If the
telegraph had existed then the battle
of New Orleans would not have
been fought. But that battle
was not useless. The treaty of
peace which had been signed did not
by any means grant to the United
States the rights for which she had
been contending. The battle of New
Orleans gave her those rights. Since
that Sunday morning ninety-four
years ago. the nations of the world
have not doubted that the United
States is a sovereign nation, equal in
dignity to any other
Washington city did not hear Of
Jacksons great victory until February
4, so slowly did news travel in those
days. But as the news spread slowly
through the union the name of Jack
son was everywhere honored and from
that day he was the country's idol
Later he became president and inaug
urated the system of political parties
as we now know it. The democratic
party was his child, for while Jeffer-
son gave it creed, Jackson gave it
an organization. Today a whole ma
ton honors the memory of Jackson,
but for the most part the celebrations
of the day is democratic party rite