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L d fc I By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 8 Is a day duy for recalling one of the most picturesque figures In J American history Andrew Jackson was his name but to his countrymen he Is affectionately known as ns Old Hickory It Is not a date for tor special observance ance because It ft t Is the anniversary anal anni of ot his birth as Is the case with other great Americans Rather Rathel we remember It because It Is the anniversary anniversary an an- of ot a battle bottle he be fought and won icon on that date The Tattle Rattle of ot New Orleans on January 8 1815 is unique In military history It Is the only major majori i engagement on record which was fought after a n treaty of ot peace between the two nations Involved In had bad been signed Hut Iut Its significance In American history Is more than that curious fact The War Wari i of 1812 was wale a conflict fou fought ht by hy a nation divided I a against Itself It was one In which Americans of i the time took little pride at least so far as the record of Its military forces was concerned Disaster after atter disaster and reverse after reverse reverse reverse re re- re- re verse had caus caused d the country to believe belle that the breed of successful generals such as It had known In the Revolution He was extinct Then Andrew Andre Jackson and his hU frontiersmen at New ew Orleans i faced the Hie best troops that Great Britain could muster They Thy were Wellington's veterans who had broken the power of Napoleon But nut Jackson gave guve them odds of two to one and defeated them disastrously i To a country that had hud almost completely i lost faith In Itself to a country that had bad almost i I learned to cringe e this news came like a r reprieve to a man upon the gallows says Gerald W. W Johnon John John- son Mn on In Andrew Jackson An Epic In Homespun It was US literally crazed with Joy and In to Its um It flung the name Dame of ot Andrew Jackson against the stars If Jackson did not really save New Y Orleans he saved Ed something Infinitely more important namely the self respect of the country coun try In view of ot this It would seem that January 8 i should be one of ot the red-letter red days on the AmerIcan American Amer ican calendar The fact that It Is not Is only further proof that the old saying A republic forgets forgets for for- gets Is true For January 8 Is not a general holiday boll holi day dar nor Dor even a state boll holiday day In that respect It cannot take rank with March 2 when Texas recalls recalls re re- recalls re- re calls the Battle of San SaD Jacinto and honors the memory of Sam Houston nor with April 19 10 when Massachusetts honors the patriots who fought at Concord and Lexington nor with August 10 16 when hen Vermont remembers how bow old John Stark beat the Hessians at The only observance of ot the anniversary of ot the Rattle Dattle of New Orleans as asa a holiday Is In New Orleans which has good reaSon reason rea rea- son Ion to rem remember the name of Andrew Jackson In fact th the only wide nation wIde notice of ot this anniversary anus anni Is a celebration which whIr has only a meager connection with the battle and even eyen this occurs Intermittently That Is the Jackson Day dinner held In Washington by the leaders of the Democratic Demo- Demo cratic party porty on January 8 and there tribute Is U paid more to Andrew Jackson the President and the founder of Jacksonian Democracy than to Old Hickory Jackson the soldier and military victor Even Enn though America has not chosen to honor the memory of ot Andrew Jackson by making a holiday boll boll- day of ot the date on which he won his great victory vic Ie tory torI and started on the path which led Jell ev eventually to the White louse House this do does s not mean that he heIs hefa heis is fa forgotten or Is ever er likely to be For as his biographer previously has hns pointed out lIe He is the hero bero of the people not of the Intelligentsia The people still delight In the legends of his pro ess of t his lurid lan language of his Imperious and dictatorial dicta tonal temper The tale of his usurpations does not appall them but delights them for Americans have always loved pd a really masterful man If Jacksons Jackson's spiritual heir should appear now no there Is every ery reason On to believe bElIe America of the Twentieth i eth th th century would hall halt him as 81 rapturously and follow tollow him as blindly as It hailed balled and toll followed owed the hero tero of long ago Another reason why he Is not likely to be for for- gotten cotten lies Iles In the fact tact that with th the exceptIon of ff C y Ok r V Son M I I Statue in In V tD C Washington and Lincoln more monuments and markers have been erected to his memory than any other President f Fascinating as is the story of Jacksons Jackson's career a story which Is familiar to most Am Americans equally Interesting Is III the story of some of ot these memorials Outstanding among them Is the famous rocking horse statue In Lafayette La fayette park opposite the White House In Wash Nash ington Perhaps It Is particularly appropriate that this memorial to a n man mon whose life lite was turbulent tart tur bulent from beginning to end should be the subject for frequent controversy and should furnish material mute mute- rial for tor an almost endless debate amon among politicians clans sculptors and horsemen The The- statue which has hRs the distinction of being the first equestrian statue In the United States Is the work of ot Clark M Mills Hills III II a New Yorker born In 1815 who drifted to South Carolina where he worked In a plaster and cement mill While doing stucco work ork there he developed a method for taking a s cast from a living face tace and although he had no art education he bE began an working in marble Ills His first effort a bust of ot John C C. Calhoun was purchased by the city of Charleston and he hp was given n It gold medal by the commonwealth of ot South Carolina Mills next went to Washington to make mate busts of ot Webster We and n. n On the way he stopped In Richmond and there saw Ilou- Ilou dons don's statue of Washington the first real piece of ot sculpture he had ever seen Arriving In Washington he found plans were under way for the erection of an equestrian statue of Jackson Cave e Johnson then postmaster general general gen gln era eral I and president of the Jackson monument committee committee com rom Invited him to submit a design Rut Hut Milts Mills never ne having seen Feln an equestrian statue felt obliged to refuse the offer olTer However he was prevailed pre pre- called upon to make the attempt and having ha bought some land near Lanham Md he set up upa a foundry and a studio and went to work For or nine months ne worked patiently on a small model on a new principle that principle that of bringing the hind legs of ot a horse directly beneath the center of ot Its Ita body boily thus producing perfect balance A race horse named Olympus was his hili model for Jacksons Jackson's charger charler and he trained this horse to pose for the work Finally his design was finished fin and accepted by the commission and Mills set to work to male make the bronze statue Cannon captured by Jackson Jacks at Pensacola were to be melted down do n for the statue of ot the horse anti and Its rider and other guns captured from the British at New Orleans was to be used for the base bae But Hut Just when Mills fills was ready rendy to begin In the melting and recasting a gale de destroyed troyed his studio Before he lie could rebuild It It fire destroyed the foundry Despite these handicaps to which h were added such misfortunes s as the breaking of cranes the bursting of ot furnaces s and ond six elx failures In 11 making the body of ot the horse Mills persisted until his work was completed Just before the tho statue was dedicated Mills as the head of a company ompy of ot militia he had bad organized organ orlan zed tried to ride Olympus at al the head bead of the parade The horse perhaps pt feeling that occasion was as an un appropriate one ogle did some Bome impromptu pos pos- I n k V Orleans Ing on Its hind IE legs similar to the Jackson statue whereupon hereupon Its itA rider slid oft off hastily and continued on his lis way afoot I The statue was unveiled on January 8 and Senator Stephen A. A Douglas of Illinois was the orator for tor the occasion For nil all the ridicule that has been hn heaped upon Jackson and his hlA rocking hor horse the statue Is n a remarkable one In many manT respects It Is mounted without pivots rivets or clamps of ot any kind Amon Among many people there Is an Idea that the tail tall and hind legs legi of the horse hON e were wert cast soli solid II to balane balance bal ance ane the rest of the figure But nut this Idea Is II erroneous The statue Is balanced perfectly on the hind legs leg's of the horse and despite the fact tact It tins has not shifted a fraction of an nn Inch In the tho 7 75 years ears that It has stood on the same spot From the original model Mills 1 made a replica for New Orl Orleans ans and It stands today In Jackson square originally called the Place Ilace d' d Armes Armei but changed to honor the savior lor of of the city after the historic battle In 1815 1875 In that city Another replica stands on the grounds of the statehouse In Nash yule Tenn Mills' Mills statue of Jackson brought him fame tame and he hp was WI commissioned to do others The first was the equestrian statue of ot Washington which stands In to the circle of that name In the National Capital Another was the statue of ot Armed Liberty which stands on the dome of the tho Capitol In Washington If It Jacksons Jackson's life lite was a n disputations disputatious one It Is appropriate also that It should have begun on disputed dill dis prated ground and that the dispute over the scene of his birth should continue long after his death At the time of his birth March 15 1707 1767 the boundary line lint between the two provinces of North and South Carolina was not clearly defined That boundary line ran north and south less than thana thann a n quarter of a mile from the log cabin In which Andrew Jackson first saw 8 the light of day But was the cabin east of the boundary line L e e. e In South South Carolina or w west st of ot it hence In North Carolina That Is la a point over o which his blog biographers I raphers and other historians have never been able to agree And so the two states statE's of North Carolina and LUd South Carolina have ha had bad a part in another Jackson Jack son controversy as to which one belongs belons the honor of ot being his native f state tUte Apparently South Carolina has hall hod had the last word In Inthe the contro contro- controversy controversy controversy versy for tor In November 1 1928 S. S there was erected a marker r on the James Crawford plantation 10 miles mile from Lancaster S S. p. p J bearing on the front these words Birthplace of Andrew Jackson brave bra truculent noble able honest On the rear Is an nn Inscription from a letter said to haeb have ha b been en written by Jack Jark Jackson on ora to a Lancaster citizen which reads I was born In South Carolina asI asI as ns I have hac been bren told at the plantation whereon James TamEs Crawford lived about crossing of the Waxhaw Wax Wax- haw CreEk Creel and beneath that Is this Inscription This Thule stone stands upon the plantation whereon James Jamrs Crawford lived near the site of the dwelling dwell dwell- dwelling In ing house houle according to the Mills map of ot 1820 The year jear 1020 1112 saw the erection of another me memorial morial mortal to Andrew Jackson That was on April 15 11 when the statue of ot Jackson was unveiled In Statuary Statuary Sta Sta- hall hail In the Capitol It wee was presented to the tho federal government nt by the state of Tennessee In honor of ot the centennial year rear of ot his hili Inauguration as President resident and nd was accepted on behalf of ot the nation by President Cool Coolidge I dee e The statue which shows Jackson In the full toll dress uniform of a e major general of ot the regular army anny of ot his time- time cocked hat tight-fitting tight military dress coat coal and breeches long cloak and high boots Is the work of Belle Kinney Scholz formerly of Nashville Tenn On that occasion President Coolidge paid a tribute to Jackson as 81 one oue who exemplified the unlimited opportunities offered to men regardless regard regard- less lees of ot seeming handicaps lIe He gave taTe to the nationalistic spirit through ough loyalty to the Union Onion a new strength which was decisive for many years President Coolidge said Ills management of our was such as ns to secure a wholesome respect for tor our government gu and the rights of ot out citizen He lIe left lett the treasury without obligations and with a surplus Coming up from the people he the that there Is sufficient substance In self governmEnt government govern ment to solve Important public questions and end to torise torise rise superior to a 8 perplexing crUIs Like u true true pioneer he broke through all restraints and im tm impediments i ipE pE pediments Into which he be was born and leaving behind the provincialisms and prejudices of his day pushed out towards a larger freedom and a sounder government carrying the country with him Wm If It at nt times he was high tempered and overbearing overhearing over bearing hearing there re Is no fairer Ito sto y sto-y y 7 of ot chivalrous devotion and affectionate consideration than that which he lavished la upon his wife But nut if one would see se the memorial which best exemplifies the tender side of Andrew Jackson Jockson It Is only necessary to go to Nashville Tenn and there visit the Hermitage e where he be lived th the happiest of his life with his beloved ed Rachel where the most crushing blow Now In his whole career her death was Willi dealt him and where at at last he died with a miniature of ot her next to hit his heart In that fine old mansion which has bas br become com coma a 8 patriotic shrine of ot the sort that Washington's Mount Vernon and Jeffersons Jefferson's Monticello are preserved as ns it was In the days dos when Jackson lived fd there one may come nearer understanding Andrew Jackson not Jackson not Andrew Jackson the Indi Indian an fighter or the g general or the politician or th the i President but Andrew Jackson tta man I |