Evening star., 1928-04-20
''Fought the Good Fight"
Writer Cites Codes of Jackson
and Lincoln Toward Union.

To the Editor OF The Star:
To the Hebrews Paul writes his color
full relation of the mighty wrestlings
and victories of the fighters who
throughout the ages have fought the
good fight" and gives a conclusive,
stirring. personal message to the war
riors of today that they without us
should not be made perfect. Wherefore,
seeing we also are compassed about
with so great cloud of witnesses, let
us lay aside every weight and the sin
that doth so easily beset us. and let US
run with patience the race that Is set
before u.s. Hebrews, Kill. Previously
he had entreated the Corinthians to
know no man after the flesh"
With these divine admonitions ring
ing In our ears. let us sweep away the
mists of time, space matter. and let us
read today a sign of the times in the
unveiling at the Capitol in Washington
of the statue of Andrew Jackson, with
its acceptance for the Nation by Presi-
dent Coolidge coming, as 1t does, In
week vibrant with the immortal
achievements of Abraham Lincoln) ..
May we not LAY that this ceremonial Is
another link in the chain, welded from
the gold of the Union, which binds
Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jack
for there is no death.
In the eternal. dazzling light OF the
Union, in which human weaknesses
fade away, we find these two children
of the wilderness standing side by side,
with the big brother whispering COM
passionate benediction-"Withm malice to-
ward none. with charity for all, with
f1rmness in the right as God gives us
to see the right. let us strive on to
finish the work We are in"
Turning to precedent footsteps, we
hear a mighty reverberation of Andrew
Jackson's laundering tones sounded at
famed notification banquet-"Our
Federal Union, 1t must be preserved"
Andrew Jackson faced once more the
old problem of mutiny. With his genius
for quick action, the Chief of Staff of
the Army, Gen. Winfield Scott, was
sent to South Carolina, and shortly
after President Jackson stepped out be-
fore the country, "set the bugle TO his
lips and sounded Assembly" Let me
quote from Gerald w. Johnston's An
drew Jackson, An Epic in HomeSpun":
His medium was proclamation to the
people of his native South Carolina. 1t
stands today the unmistakable master
piece of all Jackson's state papers Ed
ward Livingston worked it over, gave 1t
form and polish but Edward Living
ston no more wrote it than Chapman
wrote the Iliad,' 1t was Jackson
through and through-Jackson defend
ing his country; therefore, Jackson at
his highest and best ."
Hear Daniel Webster in the Senate
20 years later in his magnificent address
on The Constitution and the Union"
March 7. 1880: II hear" says Mr.
Webster, that there is to be conven
ton held at Nashville. / am bound TO
believe that If worthy gentlemen meet
at Nashville in convention their objects
will be to adopt counsels conciliatory
q" TO inculcate principles Of
brotherly love and attachment to the
Constitution of th9 country as 1t now
is." Then comes the alluSion to the
indignation of "a stern old English
man" over the Treaty of AmienS. at the
terms of which this Englishman de-
clared. If he could know them, King
William would rise from his grave to
denounce them.) And Mr.. Webster
continues: Let me commend this say
ing Of Mr.. Wyndham, in all its emphasis
and all its force, to any persons who
shall meet at Nashville for the over
throw OF the Union of this country over
the bones of Andrew Jackson. Ger
tainly," concluded Mr.. Webster. If they
meet for any purpose hostile to the
Union. they have been singularly map
propriate in their selection of a place"
And SO final picture comes to mind
OF Lincoln and jackson. United in
their devotion to the Union of the
States, they were unified in their death
less love of the Holy Bible. upon whose
imperishabie truths America is founded.
1t iS Abraham Lincoln who calls TO the
Scoffers who scott at this spiritual def
milton of Americanism pure and unde-
filed Says President Lincoln: Il am
protitably engaged in reading the Bible.
I" . In regard to the great Book I
have only to say that IL is the best Book
which God has given To man" To
which we hear the echoing amen of
Andrew Jackson. 1t is the Book upon
which our Republic rests"
KITTY CHEATHAM.