The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10

who at the age of 2S yielded his life In de- fense of his country at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. When the battle was ended Jackson stood over his body and wept. He exclaimed:
 q have lost the flower of my army"
 The memory of his relation, who fell at Quebec, is preserved in the name of the city. The highway will go on down, over sparkling streams, byDcotton fields dotted with the cotton pickers-the negro who in great number is still servant and ten- ant on the old plantations that first gave him local habitation and a name. The negro has, to say the least. a picturesque bearing in the New South and is a TO- nance and a poem on the Old South that will assert itself in history as did the "Border Tales" of Scotland and the King Arthur Legends of England. With all his faults he is the remnant recollection of the south's palmiest days of prosper ity and of her darkest days of diversity. Through magnificent forests of oak and pine, alternating with long stretches of treeless prairie adorned with bright flow CTS and waving grass, the beauty of which. arrested for a moment the gaze of De Soto in his hapless march in search of gold in 1541. It is singular coincidence that while the Alabama Daughters of 1872 are working for the Jackson Highway in commemoration of his conquest of the Creek Nation and his giving to the world the great middle basin west of the Alle- ghanies to civilization, Tennessee, at her Tri-State exposition to be held at Mem- phs in September, at which one feature will be the celebration of the 370th ami versary of DeSoto's first view of the Mis- sissippi from about that point, the de- |scendants of these Creek Indians, who tino fa in Arlr hou been invited to ride at the head of the parade. On to the beautiful city of Mo- bile. beautiful Mobile bay, a city founded on and made glorious by historic levents. Mobile has just recently celebrat- led her bi-centennial, when at a joint flag raising the colors of five nations whose flags have f1oated over the city were flung to the breeze. France, Spain, Eng land. United States, and the Confederacy. It was founded by D1berville and Bien- vile, defended against the British during the war of 1872 by Jackson. who in 1921. took possession of the territory ceded to the United States by treaty with Spain made in 1919. It was the home of Father Ryan, the poet priest, and of the hero of the Alabama, Admiral Semmes.
 On, on, the Jackson Highway will go, by Scranton, Miss, across bayous dark ened by the long shadows of trees draped in the soft grass moss, that weird para site that had no root or beginning and no perceptfble end. It evinces no process ot growth, but surely, silently weaves, de- cades after decades, it's strange fabric and enlists the gentle night windss.o ar- range its graceful festoons with no ap- parent care or design. On, frightened with the perfume of the jassamine and magnolia, to New Orleans, where Jack | son, in command of the American forces. fought the memorable battle of New Or leans, January 8, 1915, which settled for
 all time English domination and interfer-
 ence in American affairs. The first set-
 + tiers of New Orleans were the nobility
 and gentry of France. It is often called
 the Paris of America 'Old Creole
 Days have been immortalized by the pen of Cable and King. New Orleans is lthe largest cotton market in America, the second in the world.
 No Monument in Alabama
 Tennessee has "The Hermitage" which
 was preserved by an organization of pa- Itriotic Tennessee women, and there is in
 the capitol grounds an equestrian statue,
 a gift of the state. But there is not a
 monument in Alabama to. his memory,
 nor a road or trail marked that Jackson
 went over except the one he marked him. ,
 F 1874, upon Fort Toulouse and 1t was
 named by his followers Fort Jackson. To-
 day the Colonial Danes of Alabama are planning to restore Fort Toulouse. There lis a Jackson county in Alabama, end some two years ago Congressman Heflin Of Alabama introduced bill in Congress asking for the appropriation of $10,9OO to erect monument to the memory of those heroes who fell at Horseshoe Bend. The owner of the battle-ground has donated five acres for park for this monument. Bancroft says of Jackson:
 Himself the witness of the ruthless- ness of savage life he planned the re- moval of the Indian tribes beyond the limits of the organized states; ands sit is the result of his determined policy that the region east of the Mississippi has been transferred to the exclusive possession of |cultivated man.
 "A pupil of the wilderness his heart was with the pioneers of American lire towards the setting sun. No American statesman has ever embraced within his offections a scheme so liberal for the em- igrants as that of Jackson. He longed to secure to them, not pre-emption rights only, but more than pre-emption rights, He longed to invite labor to take pos session of the unoccupied fields without money and without price; with no obli:ya- ton except the perpetual devotion of itself by allegiance to its country. Under the |beneficent influence of his opinions Inc sons of misfortune, the children of ad- venture, find their way to the uncultivat- ed west. There in some wilderness glade. |or in the thick forest of the fertile ,lain Tor where the prairies most sparkle with
 flowers, they, like the wild bee which sets them the example of industry, may choose their home, mark the extent of their pos- sessions, by driving stakes or blazing trees shelter their log cabin with the boughs and turf, and teach the yir,rn soil to yield itself to the ploughshare. Theirs shall be the soil, theirs the beauti- ful farms which they teach to be pro- ductive. His heart was ever with the pioneer, his policy ever favored the die- fusion of independent freeholds through out the laboring classes of our land"
 The National Society of United Daugh- ters of 1872 stand for educational, philan- thropic and historic work. The Alabama Daughters of 1872 is a young organization and have taken as their first work the building of this transcontinental highway as a monument of Andrew Jackson, one of Americas greatest generals and states men, the seventh President of the United States, "Old Hickory the man whose love and tenderness for his wife, Rachel "a being so gentle and yet so virtuous, islander might wound but could not dis honor," and whose chivalrous attitude toward all women won for him the ad- miration and plaudits Of the world. Is there man so lacking in chivalry, so wanting in patriotism, that will deny one inch of Hthc right of way ask ed for the