Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06
JACKSON HOME
LIFE DESCRIBED
Friend, in Letter, Tells How
Hero Of New Orleans
Lived.

] L. hOGIDs Mo, EhdICil ALI III
innate insight into the home life of
Andrew Jackson, the political cares
that. beset those days and the love
of the populace for the nations hero
/ is gained in a hitherto unpublished
| letter sent from New Orleans on No
vember 20, 1928, the month in which
Jackson was elected Presidtnt, to
DIR. Henry c. Flood, of Philadelphia,
| by DR. Floods mother, an intimate
| friend of President and Mrs. Jack
son, says the Republic.
The time-worn original copy now is
| in the possession of Mrs. Virginia
Flood Kelly, of 2609-a Dickson street,
granddaughter of the writer and
daughter of Doctor Flood to whom it
was written,
| The writer was, at the date the let
ter bears, the widow of Dr. William
Flood, a prominent and wealthy ply
stefan of New Orleans, at whose home
| the JackSonS were wont to visit. The
letter was penned after an extended
visit by the writer to the newly
elected President and his wife, and
voices an exultation in the victory
over political corruption" that has in
it peculiar latter day note. Jack
son just had been elected over John
Quincy Adams, who four years before
had defeated him and had made Henry
Clay his secretary of state.
The letter follows:
NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. %,
| 1S2S.-My Dear Son While at the
Hermitage received your last letter.
L left the General and his
| lady on October 20. They accom-
panied me to Nashville, where we
spent a week, and then we parted,
each to return to their respective
homes, which / was twenty days in
performing, having to wait en- route
ten days for passengers from Louis
vile. My mind, since my ar
rival, has been pretty much on a
stretch about the election, which,
thank God, contrary to my most san
guine expectations, has given General
Jackson in this State a majority of
572, and there is not a doubt now,
even in the mids of the Adamsites,
that he will be our next President.
think this ought to cause general
congratulation throughout the no
ton, as Ii will be a sure means of
cleansing and purifying our present
corrupt and degraded Cabinet. Clay
must and will fall. never to rise
again, only to be remembered with
contempt the balance of his life.
What a source of rejoicing to my
heart is the prospect of seeing our
unparalleled, plain, worn veteran oc-
cupying the first seat in the gift of a
free people! AS everything that con-
Germs him must interest you. I'll give
| you slight description of his home.
His farm, or plantation, is spacious
and highly improved. His slaves are
| numerous and are comfortably fixed,
and serve him for love, not fear. for
| never did / see so indulgent a master
The house is of brick, two stories
| high elegantly neat and spacious,
modestly situated behind slight ele-
walton of the ground over which you
approach it, and is surrounded with
neat paling which opens to a hand
some pasture that leads to the house,
having small portico in front, open
| ing into "a splendid paSsageway with
rooms on each side.
On the right hand of the passage
way are the sitting and dining rooms.
and on the walls of the latter are
! likenesses of the general and his lady
and several of his friends The pistols,
swords, canes, medals, etc, which
have been presented to the general
by various State societies and indi-
viduals are in this room. In the CEN
tire of this room is a superb circular
table, presented by the Governor OF
Louisiana to Mrs. jackson, on which
lie pamphlets, etc. On the walls OF
the sittinS-room are hung the Declar-
alton of Independence and the Fourth
of July letters Of Adams and Jeffer-
son.
Opposite, on the other side of the
passageway, are the diningrooms ant
three bedrooms, all neatly papereo
and comfortably furnished. A hand
some flight of stairs conveys you t,
four handsome bedrooms The hous,
is about 55x50 feet A fine, usefu
garden adjoins yard covered will
q variety of poultry, and q dairy
which affords six pounds of buttel
day. In this hospitable mansion
there are visitors constantly of th'
greatest variety of character from
every quarter of the Union, and tn,
house is literally full from noon t,
night, and all literally participat,
at the hospitable and sumptuou
board. affordlng every delicacy eman
ating from their orderly farm.
) But what | admire more than all j!
to see the exemplary man clothed il
his own manufactures Such are TIN
examples to strengthen and supper
a republic. not to weaken it by puer
lie etiquette and the degrading POM
of foreign courts. In addition to al
my engagements, we went to tn
| springs, where we spent q pleaSan
time; but 1t is impossible to be other
wise than pleasantly entertained whei
/ with Mrs. Jackson, who is always tn
life of company Her simple, affablS
; plain. unassuming, at the same tim
delightful, manners must ever wi
her the hearts of all who know hel
: And the more l saw of the genera
! and herself the more | had to regre
the necessity of leaving them at 81
expiration of a seven weeks visit, an
think the memories thereof will ad
ten years to my existence. Your al
. fectionate mother. MARY FLOOD.
!. To Henry Claiborne Flood, Phila de
phia, Pa
The letter. as was the custom thei
was mailed without an envelope. bs
ing folded with the plain side outei
most upon which the address wa