Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-05
Five Minutes a Day With Our Presidents Copyright 1s2o-By James Morgan


 1765-Andrew Jackson and his
 wife (Elizabeth Hutchinson)
 from carrickfergus, Ireland,
 landed at Charleston.
 1767-March IS ,tf1ir son, Andrew
 Jackson, born in Union Co.,
 North Carolina.
 1781-Andrew taken prisoner. by
 the British.
 1787-Admtitd to the bar.
 l78S-Went to Tennessee.
 1791-Married to Mrs. Rachel
 Donaldson Robards.
 1793-Remarried her.
 f306-kiIled Charles Dickinson in
 duel.
 1s13-Shattered for life in a fight
 with the Bentons.
 Andrew Jackson, the unlettered backwoodsman, treading at the heels of John Quincy Adams the most cul- tured in all the line, presents the sharpes contrast to be seen in the pro- cession of presidents.
 The first president born in log cabin, Jackson could not claim aa his own even that lowly dwelling in the North Carolina forest, but en- tered the world homeless and father less. Sprung from poor Irish immi- grants, his parents had been in the country, only two years when thd father sank into an unmarked grave a few days before Andrews birth leaving his family without a roof or an acre.
 With her two littl, boys who had been born in the old country, the ex- ] pectant mother took refuge in the home of an invalid sister, where sht | served as housekeeper and brought ur | l, oI, al rf1f educate Andrew for the Presbyterian ministry, but small and poor was the schooling she. was able to give him | The most he ever learned was from men rather than from books, the Vic Lar of Wakefield being the only work | of literature that he is known tt have read in the whole course of hi life.
 The first teacher to make an i'm pressien upon Andrew Jackson wa | the American Revolution, whicl filled his breast with a passionate de votion to his country and flaming hatred for it's enemies. Among tn newly landed Irishand Scotch whC mostly peopled his part of th/Caro linas, the great conflict become !; furious war between the clans, witt raidnig bands hunting one anothS through the wild forests, leaving be hind them a trail reddened by bloc, and fire.
 In that mad strife between neigh bors, Andrew was plunged at an az when most boys cannot qualify eve for the mimic combats of the foot ball field. At A, he was dashinl about on his shaggy pony "poppin them" with his musket, as he Saic Taken captive, he was scared 10 , life by the sword of British officer } whose muddy boots he indignant refused to brush. Thrown into a fol prison camp, he suffered from a viru lent attack of smallpox that for tim , left him a maniac.
 l No other among Amrican leader 5 received from the War of Indepen dence such legacy of bitter mem } ories as it bequeather to Jackson , That savage struggle between Whi , and Tory swept away his bray 3 mother and both of his brothers , scattered his kindred and left hin ] at 15, alone in the world.
 A ragged, rowing waif of the Revc r lution, he grew up as wild as a wee [ With no hand above him his hig e spirits led him into the temptation 3 of his primitive world, whose soci s standards were 200 years behind u }. times, cock fighting and horse ra = ing, young Jackson never took dar e the rustic sport once stalking his hor ,, and his all on a throw of the dice. Il bully among nawdies he went = registering way along road that r. not to be laid down on the map y conduct as a course to the Whi . House.
 7. Still the story points the moral tn is if a young man will only keep goir d he will leave the follies of youth e hind him. Jackson's faults were t 1t vices of h1s rough surroundings a y they changed with changing circu1 'f stances. His simple virtues we ,e drawn from the same rude enviro s ment, which moulded him into a ru 'e ged, fearless man, who never forgot le friend and who never stopped to d n honesty. d Unhappily, his loyal nature COT " not forget an enemy either. As le rose from chore boy and a saddle apprentice to be lawyer and juc
 of the Supreme Court of Tenness
 he cast aside the dissipations of in careless youth, but he never lost i'd spirit of the clansman or subdt tn his ungoVernable temper. 1t A bare catalog of his quarrels a n- fights is too long to be given he g. In most of them he was fired W