The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-05-03

healed, advanced upon the Creek ma
ton in Alabama. His arm was in a
sling. leaving the left sleeve of his
coat empty, and his shoulder was yet
too sore to bear the weight of an
epaulette. Squirming with pain, he
could not climb into the saddle without
assistance, nor could he ride long
without stopping to be washed from
head to feet in solution of sugar of
lead to keep down the inflammation
In seven crushing victories in as
many months, he broke the power of
the savage allies of England. After
one of the battles, a tender pity was
awakened in him for an Indian baby,
still clasped in the arms of its mother
as she lay among the dead on the field
The squawS among his prisoners stol-
idly refusing to nurse 1t, he took the
motherless infant to his tent and fin
ally to the Hermitage, where the red
boy grew up like a son of the family
In his home no one could be gentIer
than this hard hating, rough fighting
man, who gave his plain, simple I'M
educated wife the chivalrous devotion
of knight and the happiness she had
missed in her first marriage Child
less like Washington and Madison be-
fore him, he adopted one of Mrs. Jack
sons nephews, who was re-christened
Andrew Jackson, and brought up an
other who wore the name of Andrew
Jackson Donaldson.
1t was to fight the red foe and to
defend the frontier that Jackson enter
ed the war; but when he had foue>t
his way through the Creek country,
he found himself face to face with the
white foe on the shore of the Gulf of
Mexico. First repelling the British
from Mobile, next he expelled them
from Pensacola, where they had stolen
into the territory of neutral Spain, and
thence he marched to the defense of
New Orleans.
With the Punishment of Napoleon
to Elba, England was left free to deal
with her one remaining enemy, the
United States, and an immense fleet,
with 10000 soldiers and sailors, was
Fastening over the sea to capture New
Orleans. The future of the entire West
seemed to be at risk, and the Ken
tuckians and Tennesseeans rushed to
Jackson's standard.
By closing the mouth of the Missis-
sippi with a strong Fertilization, Jack
son deprived the British of the ad-
vantage of their sea power and COM
PEELED them to attack the city by land,
the decisive battle opening in the
misty dawn of Jan. s, 1915. The story
that the Americans won the day from
behind piles of cotton bales is a fam
liar myth. They had discarded them
early in the campaign upon finding
that the flaming cotton, ignited by the
fire of the enemy, was more a peril
than a protection. Mother earth saved
New Orleans. 1t was an early example
Of trench warfare, now so familiar.
The battle of New Orleans is re-
of the most complete disasters in the
records of civilized warfare, and one
of the most useless engagements ever
fought. In % minutes the British lost
III men to the Americans 13-and
the war had been over Is days! Yet
it was not until Feb. 10 that Jackson
heard of the treaty of peace. although
it had been signed at Client on the day
before Christmas
Had there been an electric tele-
graph the battle would not have been
fought: there would have been no hero
Of New Orleans, and Jackson never
would have been President. The man
was unambitiouS in politics. He had
made only a single speech in his one
term in Congress. Promoted to the
Senate he had not even answered the
rollcalls in that chamber and had re-
signed in a year. Afterwa I'd he re-
f,,o,, Tho Cunrop,o Count Of 10