Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-12

NSs&lSel only eight steps apart, and both men were
WSS&3 crack shots. Each intended to shoot to kill
The moment was tense and tragic to the two
groups of friends standing there in the dense shade of the
tall popars with the birds singing overhead None of the
men guessed for moment that of the antagonists
would one day be President of the United States did
he himself have any suspicion of it. They were merely
two Tennessee lawyers with personal quarrel to settle
in what then the gentemany way of doing it.
Charles Dickinson young and handsome and dcbonar,
was society man and al-round sport of the type still
found in Southern cities He had Nashville with
political and social ambitions which had not been realized
beyond the point of his marriage with the daughter OF
Wealthy family. His desire hold office struck snag
because the Young had made the mistake of trying
the political leader of Tennessee instead Of working
With him. 1t happened that the leader Andrew Jack
onand few who tried to throw Andy downstairs
smingy out of the encounter.
Jackson then thirty nine, with splendid record and
wonderful personality. He had sprung from the SOIL
white of the very poorest As boy he had fought
the Revolutionary War, where he lost his two brothers
md his mother who died in active service nurse.
Young Andy made himself into with such rapidty
that he member of Congress at twenty-nne AMI
United States Senator at thirty. incidentally he
Indian fighter, Major General of militia, and the most
fearless Judge of the Supreme Court that Tennessee has
ever had. He born fighter, and it seemed never to
matter whether the fight street brawl, duel
coding to the code, an Indian ambuscade action
the field of battle There is record that he
afraid of any
1t was not Tacksons first appearance on the "hed of
honor" His first duelif the meaning of the word may
be strecfedwas when notorious bully took into his
head to provoke him into fghtnot knowing how easy
the task The big man stepped on acksons foot;
then he did again, which too often 1t happened
rail fence. Young Jackson took the top rail and put
the end of it into the big mans stomach When the
psed bully recovered his breath he made unge forward
but stopped short He CLEAN in Jackson's eye,
CLEAN that afterward made pause, and concluded
that his honor satisfied.
Then duel with Connecticut lawyer who spake
not wisely but too much to the point. 1t Colonel
Avery opposing counsel in lawsuit that Jackson was los
ing Colonel Avery became jocuar in court and said
"My young friend the other side to think that
he make up in noise what he lacks in knowledge"
"Nlay it please the court called the young friend
g" thought until that dealing with lawyer and
gentleman"
MAY it please the court, answered Avery snilingly,
81 never suspected the young of being lawyer He
also suggested doubt about his being gentleman.
Jackson furously tore blank leaf out of awbook and
wrote challenge. This than Avery had bar
gained for but he could not refuse without being dis
credited. The two met at shutdown Both fired and
missed then they shook hands and resumed the practice
of law.
Later, when Andrew had become Judge Jackson Gov
Sewer provoked him challenge For some reason
the Governor missed the appointment and Jackson waited
mpatienty for two days Then he started for Knoxville
to force fight On the way he the Governor on horse
back, and rode at him like knight with lance at rest
kindly historian says that the Governors horse threw him
"a circumstance that gave the friends chance patch
up the trouble without boodshed.
This partial record of past performances will give some
idea OF the kind of man young Dickinson had been irving
to throw down the political stairway
he long story OF how the two to face each
other under the Kentucky popars be narrowed down