Evening star., 1925-06-02
Andrew Jackson's Admirers
Assail ''Informal Biographer''

That the living friends of Andrew
isfaction" for what they consider an
insult as that doughty hero of more
than one affair OF honor" himself,
finds plenty of proof in the emphatic
protests of the Nashville Banner and
many other newspapers. These edi-
tors, with the patriotic societies of
Tennessee, are strong in their denun-
citation Of the uncomplimentary state.
ments of Meade Minnegerode in his
Informal Biography OF Rachel Jack
SON.
The Charlotte Observer contends
that the author of the article has
taken liberties in his description of
the character Of President Jackson
and with the home life of his wife. II
refers to the Tennessee resolutions as
'scorching." The Chattanooga News
charges an attempt to obscure the
great qualities of a famous Amer
lean" The Greenville Piedmont,
however, believes that the author, "as
he asserts, wrote in good faith and
absolutely without prejudice"
There is no more beautiful story
of married life in all the annals than
that of Andrew and Rachel Jackson"
in the opinion of the Nashville Ban
ner, which says of the husband that
he was "a great man, a good man and
just man." and of the wife that she
was "a most gracious, hospitable,
| m-hearted, unassuming and noble
Christian woman" The Banner adds
that 1T is all the more astounding
that a periodical Of Nationwide cir.
culation should permit in it's pages
desecration so palpable of the men,
nf fuyn No
paper states further that those old
timers simply didn't have educational
opportunities; must be estimated for
their other possessions; and were en-
pire builders the like of whom the
world never saw before" The Mem.
phis News.Scimitar, also condemning
the article, while Conceding that Jack
son was a frontiersman, a rugged pio
neer of the little band that carved a
nation out of a. wilderness, points out
that "he had time to help draft the
first constitution of Tennessee, to be
| a Representative in Congress, q Sen
ator, member of the Supreme Court
and President of the United States
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The obligation of the biographer to
give the source of his information
about Jackson is maintained by the
| Lynchburg News, which offers this
| opinion: THAT he was spotless and
that he was soft-spoken, good.
natured and model youth will not be
claimed, but what amounts to delib-
crate murder, as virtually charged in
the Minnegerode article, was foreign
| to his nature as 1t Is generally ap.
| praised. That he was not a teetotaller
| is known, but 1t is not generally un-
| derstood that he was g. drunken de.
| bauchee. To say that he was emf
| nently a man of peace would be ut
terly inconsistent with the known
facts. but he Is not generally believed
| to have been a village rowdy and ha-
bitual disturber Of the peace"
THE trouble with Brother Mime
gerode," in the opinion of the Louis
vile Post, seems to reside in this,
| that he loves most to tell the truth
when it hurts The Post comedies,
however: Mr.. Minnegerode is care.
full not to permit his sketch to remain
| one-sided. He refers to the astonish-
| ing conquest Mrs. jackson made of
tcreole society in New Orleans: "A per.
sonal victory which triumphed over
custom and prejudice, the victory Of
her own great heart, of her sweet,
charitable nature Elsewhere he
says she was 'honored and much be-
loved Compliments of this type
] should go far toward acquitting Mr..