Show V V i 44 ok I 1 r b W ly by ELMO SCOTT WATSON 8 Is a day for recalling a famous american fight and a famous amerlean american fighter figh tei the fight was the battle of new orleans orleans took place on 0 n january jannary 8 1815 1810 and w which ilich Is unique in history ns being a battle fought after the t treaty r eaty of peace end lug ing the war had been signed the lighter fighter was gen andrew jackson frontiersman lawyer by profession probes ion I 1 but a natural military leader hailed during the th ewar war with the creek indians and the war alb tile the british by ills fellow frontiersmen as aa old hickory in tribute ta tp tile the toughness of of ills his fiber fig aa a man and later triumphantly antly elected by them to tile the agthe as the first arst representative of the new american democracy to occupy Y the white house after a long helgn irelon there by virginia and massachi Mass achu aristocrats andrew jackson Is a symbol of so intensely american that in n the words of af a recent biographer the people still delight in the legends of his pro prowess of ills his lurid jurld I 1 language an of 0 r his imperious and dictatorial temper As a small boy ver reel bihy ihy into 0 american his tory with a saber cut on his head and BS as the years sears gather upon him they gleam with steel and blood it was a roaring career career resounding to the roars f irs of cheering multitudes of musketry ekr of artillery he was a i gi great eat duelist a great soldier t and a great lover hel he was fiery quixotic dionest lione wand and loyal he was curiously romantic the picture of redheaded red headed andy jackson the boy and old hickory the man cutting and and slashing ills his wicy way to power er a mucous fellow anex an explosive pl oslie heavy handed fellow but all a man inin who biad a i code and lived up to it ie ls Is too familiar to americans to necessitate calling it up agila again on the i anniversary of his great vl victory c in the light of these characteristics it lanio Is more re intel esting to call 1 up thia that it other picture ot of himi him because bei ause of the vi avld i id contrast which it pr presents santi tha picture of Itlie the great wei lover who wits was so ad curiously romantic romar itic forthe for the story of andiew and his beloved 11 achel the woman he loved to the end nd of ahls his days Is oneff one of the most beautiful romances in american history th the e story dilill of For romance forliano lian goes back to alie year 1770 when col jolin john donelson donel el saric a well to ilo do virginia planner led a 8 party of emigrants on a 2 2000 mile trip by flatboat fiat boat tram old port fort Pai flek in en W tenn essee near the city of King kingsport sport to the middle basin basia of tennessee the tr tran n aias wag made down theu alie upper ppe rp branch ranch of ali tact lo A latono sto ato i tile the tennessee river daa donata don n tta 16 whale ien ath to the ohio up ul age the ohio to the cumberland ii and thence th cHice up that stream to tile blurts bluffs where col 61 jamea ind and an earlier party of settlers had established a frontier outpost which ivas waa to become the city of nashville llie it had taken Don elsons party panty four months to complete their Jour journey fiey anil and during that time apy lic had bad known kilow the hor horrors rois liln winter weather ri and tile sebb ge of smallpox an among giong the pirty party ft was us Don elsons twelve year earold daughter daugh tet Itai chelt who despite the of frontier life or pel hops because gergly up to n berb hood those who ln knew nache 16 donelson helion never tired ired in their ridy telling of her bei ll cluty uty her fier goodness 1 tier her 6 1 sweetness swe einiks and iana natural nat iral charm says john trotwood Trot moore a tennessee lil historian she bhe Is de scribed ascribed as ai bi anga brunette bi unette with olive comple Wn anc high coloring black eyes that danced and sparkled sparl ded ilvah c tous clous kindly lips that were true car ne lland a rare wilderness beauty 1 colonel danelson Du nelson was killed by tile the indians during the hie early years ot of the settlement and his widow moved to kentucky there she rented a houie house from another frontier widow a mrs robards whose san son leals left Is wooed and we won but the marriage mar was a failure from the b beginning robards was moody temperamental and intensely jealous of illi his wife so go rachel eventually left him returning to her mother who had in the mein meantime time gone back to nashville 1 to live paced faced with the necessity of of making iler her own thing living after her husbands death deat li mrs donelson had bad taken a a few men boarders into her fier home one of them was a young lawyer named john overton overto who brought about a reconciliation between rachel and robards who then 06 came to live with ills his wife alfi and tier her mathei another boarder at the donelson I 1 home was a red headed headed young caro union italian named andrew jackson who had arrived in nashville in 1788 and began the practice 1 of law again lfoyd li rids jealousy flamed oll out t and he accused rachel Ita cliel of being in love with jackson tile young lawdis protest to the lius husband band when he be heard hard tile the ac billy made matters worse worse and Rob robards aids le turned to td kentucky through overtones Ov ertons intercession rachel went there to alv p with him again buts buti find finding ingAbe the situation impossible soot boon iet returned birned resolved never again to alv live with robards robards th then en appl applied I 1 ed to thele the legislature giali of virginia slice since kentucky was still a part of that state for a divorce andonie and on december 20 1700 that body biddy passed daisia an acl permitting him t to go into corrito cou court rito to seek seela a divorce from life his wife back to tennessee came the report th atthe divorce had been granted in the summer of 1701 1791 while rachel was visiting in natchez Natch cz miss jackson who had fallen in loye with tier hut but lidd had not spoken of his big love while she was still robards wife sought her hei out find and th they e y were married mari I 1 r the young couple ou ale boon soon returned returned to tennessee and went to alv e at th the e home hunters which jackson now now united states slates atti attorney orney and already marked as as a mancho man who would be pona i onieh famous had established in nash valle lle two iwo years yean later anier jackson and his woe learned that she wai was not legally divorced from robards when the mar roar arlage ceremony in Natchez had ad tak taken li place the scandal fongers mongers and jick jack sons political icil enemies became busy with th the e tale had d waited waite d three years after filing his first apall cation idilo before finally ly becu securing ring the final decree of divorce immediately ly after wards on january 17 1704 jackson remarried his wife then lie he bought two dueling pistols and served notice upon ills bis enemies that he would kill any man who assailed ills his cifes name or the purity partly of their motives when they were first married marr fed for a time the tongues of his one ene were sll silenced ened then asthig as the result of i a dispute dusute over oer a horse race racen a young man who seems seems to have haie been midi made tile the tool of bf jacksons political enemies lafter after a ses session slon of heay heavy drinking denounced i jackson is as a coward covard and a poltroon rooi i and added the further insult of declaring t tliatha I 1 alved lived two 1 leiis years with ills his wife before iiii he was was married 1 to her ber tile the result tile he now famous dickinson hinckson dues 60 in which dickinson wits was killed alred first sap and seriously wounded jackson lnig I 1 efer jackson said paid to ills see sec ond if lie he hid bad missed me k intended to shojii shoot in ili th the ali air but bilt w when hen I 1 felt ls ills hall bait biow plow t through hirou gh my ribs I 1 would have killed him if he had and shot shat me through the henh the death af pf jackson for awhile and lie he had and alg alfe enjoyed a 0 perked period of hop hall icess n al Illin hunters tor s 1111 then ho he the major part att hiis his estate pt somi borne aares through debt debt I 1 buo but on tile the I 1 part which he retained he built a group of log houses and hiie one frame building to the new estate he gave the name ofa the hermitage 0 1111 8 time tIm later ile he built a handsome two story brick house to care for or the iti in creast mg cumbe numbe num berof r of guests guest w who he were wera coming to visit via it this rising young tron fron cinat lr in 4 1700 lie was e elected to congress and ta the e following yea accepted ih ah a app i ointment a seat in the united states ie seriate ikie not po so much because he lie was ambitious ham self but because he wanted 16 to lift lid his beloved rachel tonsorial toa ton social position 0 s which would show his pride in ani her within a year lie he resigned ser yeda j short time sis as a judge of Su a court in tennessee and th eni happy ini in the thought that he wail was through with public life looked forward to 6 spending the remainder of hint hii years beir usi a a t gen gentleman tieman planter at the I 1 her amitage but th the outbreak of the par ot of 1812 called I 1 AT into service again ais as the commander pm mander of tenn tennessee diee volunteers to fight th the e dreels indians wil who 0 hid gone on the karpath warpath war path in I 1 Ji january nuary 1814 he defeated the creeks in two tivo pitched battles battle land sand ended ith e war in march att atalie at itlie lie great horseshoe bend on the agthe As the result of his splendid campaign lie was mode major general to in tile alie regular lr army army then cabrae came word that 64 the were preparing to attack new orleans and jackson with ills his small aminy armyon of 2000 men there won one of the most a astounding battles la ja history defeat ing hamB hims british veterans nd and inflicting Indic ting upon thern them a greater loss less than jacks jacksons owa own force I 1 I 1 1 ta this its victory made 11 hm I rn tile the liero here kofl ot thi the old F rinch french cli yand in fils triumph richel hachel ja shared shaded for far lie he sent foi or her hei to I 1 comi to new orleans and there this daughter of the frontier won the hearts of the grand dames of louisiana with her naturalness and pe lier lack oi of silt self consciousness s they pre presented s anted tier her a set of topaz jewel abid java gave a grand bill ball in her honor at which the victor of belf new orleans proudly le led d tier her out as his bis first choice as a dancing partner by this time jackson had become a national figure with the promise of further public honors in store for or him film ili his s devoted etchel hopeb that he woula would return fo to tennes tennessee see and in the qu quiet let of of alf life nt at the hermitage cuper ate his health which had been been shattered by his arduous campaigns campala gris r lut but she soon i realized that tier her arabit ambition iod app kasnot not to be realized agthe presidential campaign of 1824 drew near 1 tennessee onn essee was tier her fai fa i 1 I 1 yolk cortte soi sop to tobe bibi a candidate 11 he e madei made the race won tle largest argest popular vote but I 1 in the he electo elal i 1 college john quincy adams aided by henry clay awas t was the win winner fier I 1 our years later another campaign I 1 wason and ngaw again jakson jackson was was a can call dl date the campaign of IS 1828 28 was a bitter one and once nee more jacksons I 1 efi enemies m es unearthed the file charge ot of ills his illegal 1 bihl tn marriage jackson with withheld h eld illa 11 I 1 ilrath wrath ua udell til tile the election was over but he desired more ardently than I 1 i iver ever to win so filae that lie he could vindicate his wife by making her the fars lady land thai that would be tier her I 1 supreme triumph over those who spoke all 1111 pf af her the result of the election was ws aO a victory etory for old id hickory alien ahen news quino hermit ia ge ra rachel jackson n after much mach pe per suasion sp seaforth set tf forth orth for nashville to obtain I 1 a wa wardrobe i jn in keeping with tier her nw new station the honor of being the presidents wife was not one which she had coveted coy eted but her husbands wish lawand law and she planned to iia accompany him to washington andi and sharell in his bli triumph while seated in I 1 t the e bach lift e parlor or of a hotel in nash j vl lle she overhears over overhear hearl herself dao discussed cussed as the woman who was a great tria mans n rise to fame faine for tile the first time there canie came to her horrified ears the stories which had been circulated which tier her husband had bad ln in keeping from her knowledge I 1 her servants said she returned tl to lle lier r home looking stunned within B few days she suffered a 1 heart attack from which she failed tc rally she lind had lost the desire to live for lal bours a heartbroken heart broken man rat a atah cr bedside helpless to ald aid her then she ile dle ard ath her died al i happl happiness deis ar andrew jckson jackson i B M 1130 western V K union u |