Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-10-29
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THE JACKSON HIGHWAY

AAAShC OuSllS w " iiO NOubS q
this time as to what route tn,
Jackson Highway will take.
Nor would there be, if the per
sons who are to determine thu
questionwereall diSinterested, anC
would keep an eye single to duty
duty to the illuscrious dead t.
com memorate whose grea'
achievement a century ago II
building a military road. it ispro
posed to establish a great thor
oughfare from New York to New
Orleans to be called the Jackson
Highway.
Plainly the object of the selec.
ton of that name is not merely
to make memorable the name OF
the hero of the Battle of New
Orleans.
1t is not simply to perpetuate
the cognomen of Andrew Jack.
son; since the construction of the
road, and naming it in his honor,
can add nothing to immortality
of his name.
For of him it truly may be said;
"Nor shall your glory be forgot,
While fame her record keeps,
Or honor points the hallowed spot,
Where Vaior proudly sleeps.
No; far-removed from the corv
fields on which he won 4onvw II,
the ashes of the great Tennes-
seean, the bravest of the brave,
are fttingly honored, and pro-
tected, in the heroic soil of the
Volunteer State which they help
to hallow.
His sepulcher at the Hermitage
at the States capital, is a place
to which honor goes ito bless
the turf that wraps his clay"
and the spot will never be forgot
nor his deeds be blotted from the
memory Of his fellow citizens so
long as the Star that glitters to
the name" OF Tennessee re-
mains, unJ'Jtted fro m TIE
IS pangled banner" that
ploudly floats, wherever it is un-
furled to the breeze, as the SYM
bol of the union-as the flag of
the United States, "the land of
the free and the home of the
brave. "
1t is proper; for that flag never
had braver defender than An
drew Jackson.
The calling of the highway aft
err him then will ado naught to
his honor or glory or to the per-
petuity of his name, whether it
runs through Alabama where it's
path will be lighted by blazes
from coke ovens and iron furn-
aces, or whether it sweeps across
the beautifully undulating prai-
ries ofMississippi where.the green
OF the alfalfa and the gold of
ripening grain vie with the wav-
ing corn and blooming cotton to
add to the attractiveness of the
landscape which, by reason of
the fertile fields and broad areas
and comfortable homes compos-
ing it, is a thing of beauty and a
joy forever.
The object of the highway is to
connect two of the principal COM
mercial centers of the country
the one the metropolis of the
North and East, the other of the
South-by a route, open to all
the public, which would have the
effect of reducing the distance,
and lessening the time of travel,
between them and thus bring the
wo sections nearer together
while making the fusion of the
elements of society all along the
way more perfect = bringing
neighborhoods, now practically
unknown the one to the other,
into close relations with one an
other 50 that their respective cit
liens may easily become neigh
bors, indeed, and friends worth
while.
The occasion for the enterprise
grows out of the necessity for it
to meet the requirements of this
progressive age and the rapid de-
velopment of our Republic
In the birth of the movement,
bush ess. convenience and COM
fort in short the rapidly, ever
growing demand for better roads
to meet the requirements of COM
merce, of agriculture and social
intercourse, which mean civiliza-
ton, itself-called for great
highway from the North to the
South, and its construction be-
came inevitable, the only quos
ton being as to the time when it