Show Andrew w Jackson Jacks fI Border Captain Captains i t a tr tea 2 j ra a t t d orIN or- or IN FORMAL DRESS Painted b by John Vanderlyn it U is believed InIS in inIS IS 15 and end hung huna in th the council chamber of erf th the h. Cit City hall ball at as a a. tribute to a native nth uth Carolinan Reproduced from a photo ph of the tb original in the collection of Mr Mrs Mu muel G. G Heiskell of Knoxville tAli All Ail pictures fron Marquis James James' Andrew the Border Captain courtesy the Merrill company By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N A December day In 1814 ISH a British Brit ish isle army sent In a fleet of ships to rapture capture New Orleans made a surprise surprise sur ur prise e landing below that city thereby thereby thereby there there- by accomplishing what whal the com coin of the American forces defending de do- fending the city hud had been working day and night to prevent pre When hen the thene ne news s of this disaster to his plans was brought to him burn he exclaimed l to 10 his stuff staff officers I will smash tern hem em so help me Cod loal Then followed his brilliant night attack of or cember 23 3 which held the invaders In to check en though It did dill not smash thorn them That happy suit was destined to 10 take place two weeks on ter-on tor on January 8 1815 when this emphatic Hilary loader lender won on one of ot the most astounding dories In all nil history n victory which paved pa eel the theay they ay y 1 to 10 the White While House for tor him and put on the lendar of ot the American people a red letter day Lich calls for remembering the name of ot Anew Anew An An- ew Jackson That emphatic declaration quoted above e has a significance Notice If It you please that Did hickory did not say WE EVE will smash hem em He lie said I I will smash them And that Ires Ives point to the title chosen by a recent blog Ipher for his book book Andrew Andrew Jackson tl the t e Borer Boror Bor- Bor or er Captain by ty Marquis James published by the Merrill Merrill company I For or the essence essence of ot the order spirit was Individualism a supreme self self- on the part of ot the borderer or the If you jou prefer preter that name In to his to do what he set out to do And only le be e man who had bad that supreme self confidence lat at will to 10 win could hope to be a border a lender leader of ot borderers The extent to which Jackson had It Is In In- rated by James Jams In telling of ot his preparations tr r smashing the British before that historic 8 as follows The Inexorable Ja Jack k nian will was unleashed unleashed unleashed-nn nn Instrument by Mch he believed he hI could accomplish anything ad tad Charles Dickinson shot him through the rain Andrew Jackson counted on the power of leer beer resolve to 10 sustain him long enough to kill killIs Is ls adversary ersary This mood possessed him now Is determination was formed to fight below ew Orleans If It beaten healen there to fight In New If It beaten there to fight above New to gleans to fight until no living thing could his Ineradicable Impulse to victory his W was 8 fury tury but of the cool calculating sort Perhaps the most surprising thing about this new ew portrait of ot Jackson Is that It paints him himI himan t I an aristocrat Andrew Jackson an aristo- aristo at Impossible 1 I you jou OU exclaim because you heeve heeve he- he ev eve the school history tradition of ot him as the exponent of the frontier democracy But Butle ut ie le fact Is that he was both a frontiersman and n aristocrat He was born on the Carolina ont r In the home of his uncle James Craw Craw- rd w whence hence his mother had gone after the death f r his father James Jams Crawford was one of ot the wealthiest lea PD of ot that part of ot the country A large numer num- num er T of slaves laves tilled his fields and ran rao his grist- grist and distillery Even Eren finer W was l the adjoining n of ot Robert Hobert Crawford his brother who ray as called Esquire because bP ause of ot his leadership In Intal Ineal teal tal affairs The first 17 IT years of ot Jacksons Jackson's f to re were si spent ent In the home of ot James Crawford rt rid that of ot Robert Crawford was a second ime me to him he was there so much So he was wasn 1 n mere backwoodsman for he belonged to all alle e aristocracy there was In the Back nack Given the best education obtainable and obtainable and that as more than the majority of ot the typical fron- fron had his had his Interests were pointed toward Ings logs classical and he might possibly have gone to the ministry as his hIs hIs' mol mother her had planned for form m had not the Revolution Intervened Very rl he showed aristocratic tendencies He Ue fed ved good company and he be loved lored good horses e 9 engaged In horse racing and cock fighting 10 o typical Interests of ot the Colonial gentleman hen he went down to Charleston to receive a odest Inheritance he proceeded to get Jet rid of ot ofIn ofin In 10 a gentlemanly way among the gentility that old Southern town who accepted him as ase ase ase e of ot them Then he studied law at Salisbury and became leading social light In that frontier settle settle- ent eat which had decidedly aristocratic leanings s. s p N x i a a L I m THE BRAVE RAVE BOY OF THE WAX HAWS A print by Currier Currer and lye which appeared In 1876 1376 and b has ba of course courte no authority a as a. asa a historical document other than that which time and the tb affection affections of the lb American people her hay bestowed bellowed upon the productions production of the famous lithographer From the taller all err of the be North Carolina Carolin Commission Raleigh a 4 w t L I A PRESENTATION PORTRAIT A miniature on ivory done at al New Orleans In n 1815 b by Jean Franco Francois Vallee a Frenchman under the spell of the Napoleonic tradition Learning of the opportunities there were for tor a ayoung ayoung ayoung young attorney beyond the mountains he turned toward Tennessee with the comfortable assurance assurance assurance assur assur- ance of the post of attorney general and goodly fees He lie early Joined up with the Blount mount faction In p politics associated with gentlemen who acquired lands far and near Dear revealed a trigger hair-trigger sense of honor which resulted In an appalling number Dumber of ot challenges and duels and gathered to himself the good things of the region In the form torm of political offices and military lead He III had a period In both the house and senate of ot the United States He lie became a major general In ID the state militia Without undue struggle or hardship he acquired both place and power Thus one reviewer of ot Marquis 1 James' James biography If It f Jackson had aristocratic leanings In n his youth they became all the more apparent In his manhood Within a few tew years after he had come cometo cometo cometo to Tennessee he was a wealthy man with even greater rl riches lles In sight At one time or another he owned outright or In partnership more than acres of land At different times tiDIes he owned a distillery a tavern and licensed ordinary nary a boat yard a race course a large trading est establishment with three stores In 10 Tennessee and ag agents In New Orleans and anel Philadelphia and he was a stockholder In the Nashville bank the first In Tennessee He lie lived In a fine One house on a model plantation plantation plantation planta planta- tion called Hunters Hunter's Hill and that thaI as well as his later homes the two Hermitages were very much a country seat seato But Dut Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son soo was not as good a business man as he was wasa a fine gentleman n. n All of ot his enterprises except the race track and the bank lost money Soon he be became so Involved In debt that he had to sell Hunters Hunter's Hill to pay payout out and he moved Into a blockhouse which became the first Hermitage Then Thea it was discovered that he had sold settlers settlers set set- tiers a large tract of ot land to which he be did not possess a clear title and that threatened to take the last dollar he owned A crafty lawyer told him how he could find a legal loophole through which he could evade responsibility Jacksons Jackson's reply was typical of ot the man He lie declared that be he would protect the settlers' settlers titles If It It made him a pauper Fortunately for him he was able to protect them without Impoverishing himself It was such traits of ot character as these which helped make him a border captain Whatever faults he may IDay have had there was never any question of ot his personal Integrity Particularly was this true of ot him as a Judge during his early career In Tennessee Of Ot this James writes Ills His record Is clean Barring a little finesse In Indian Indian In In- n- n dian dlan matters which was customary no hint bint of ot Irregularity renders render the dim beginnings of ot his career of ot a color with those of a few of ot our other western On the bench Jackson was as rectitude embodied His Ills law library was presentable presentable presentable pre pre- and his hIli acquaintance with Ith M At ample for tor forthe forthe the time and place No written decision by bl him la Is known that practice being Inaugurated by Jacksons Jackson's successor John Overton But Dut tradition tradition tion preserves the essence of ot his frequent charge to Juries Do what whal Is RIGHT between these par par- ties That Is what the law always mANS Just as he was a leader In to civil life so he be became became became be be- came an outstanding military leader conscious of ot the fact that the leader must Isrl sacrifice ce himself him him- self for his bis people So o when the War of ot 1812 broke bruke out there was every good reason wh why Anrew Andrew Andrew An An- drew rew Jackson should have haye remained at the Hermitage p. p enjoying the honors that already had come to him and the companionship of his t f 3 kA t tF F ig w. w 4 lye e 6 a em 6 i a aIt It RACHEL JACKSON A miniature on ivory which Jackson Jackion wore about bout his Kii neck for thirty year yean arl Painted by Anna ADDa C. C Peale In Washington December 1815 beloved Rachel Certainly he had paid a high price for tor the right to enjoy the latter risking his hie life time after atter time In challenges to duels and In duels duets themselves to shield her good name from slanderous whispers Even though he be had been ben elected major gen eral of the Tennessee militia ten years jears ears before there was no compelling reason for tor him to leave Rachel and march away to the wars But ut he Instantly instantly In in- offered to Pre President Madison a militia division of 2500 trained men and promised to tomake tomake tomake make a successful Invasion of ot Canada within 00 days But nut his offer was disregarded and had It not been for tor Governor Blount of or Tennessee who signed Ills his commission as major-general major of United United Unit Unit- ed States volunteers he might not have got Into the war at all aIL Through the thc machination of ot Gen James WilkInson Wilkinson Wilkinson Wilk Wilk- inson a scoundrel In high places If there ever was one all of Jacksons Jackson's efforts l to serve his country were about to come to naught when the news came of ot the Creek uprising and the massacre at Fort Mims In Alabama So o Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son started on the campaign which was to bring him his first military glory But nut parl early In that campaign difficulties arose Before Defore he be could win wina a decisive victory over the Creeks the term of enlistment of ot the majority of ot the volunteers under under un nn der his bis command expired and the men prepared to go home without waiting for tor the arrival of reinforcements to take lake their places Then Governor Blount threw up the sponge advising the evacuation of ot Fort Strother and a Ii retreat to Tennessee It was a literal summons to Join the dismal file le of ot fun funking kIng military chieftains chieftain whose crowded march Into the limbo had distinguished distinguished dis dis- our mana management of the war One Ill calculated step and Andrew Jackson should bear company with the dim shapes of ot Hull Dearborn Dear born Hampton Izard Chandler Winder WInder the the list could be lengthened So Jackson wrote a letter to Blount Arouse from yr despise ile despise plse fawning smiles or snarling frowns with frowns with energy exercise yr functions tunc- tunc the the campaign must rapidly progress or yr country ruined Call out the full tull quota execute the orders of ot the Secy of War arrest the officer who omits his duty duly and let popularity larity perish for tor the moment Save Mobile Mobile lave save the Territory save Territory save yr frontier from bP becoming drenched In blood What retrograde under these circumstances I will perish first That was In December 1813 A year ear later faced with a similar situation of ot Impending disaster disaster dis dl aster asler although redcoats not Dot redskins were the enemy this time Jackson was duplicating his hll I will perish first with the statement I J will smash them so help me God I 1 Smash the Creeks he did at Tohopeka or the Great Oreal Bend and Jacksons Jackson's return to Tennessee was a s triumphal trl tri progress A year later laler he also smashed the British and to a country that had almost completely lost faith In Itself to a country that had bad almost learned to cringe this news newl came like Ilke a reprieve to a man Ulan upon the gallows It was t l literally ra crazed with Joy and In Us Its delirium It flung the name of ot Andrew Jackson against the stars lIars Later to a suggestion that he might become a candidate for for President he replied Do o you JOU think I am such ouch a d d il d fool No sir air I know what I am fit for I can command a bod body of ot otmen men In lo a rough way war but I am not fit to be te President Pre Pres ident Thirteen years later American democracy democracy racy thought differently So It sent this border captain to the White While House O C b by W Newspaper Union Colon |