Show W M IL ff a M AP ta ar 0 AV ia M 9 ML M w 0 sis th the tw aft 0 M E R M AF orold IMP HI mw elff off RY jeffi g r r S ff yiew V av M Uz acksen at au e j et C in dy ELMO SCOTT WATSON fi 8 to la it ft day for or recalling one of f tile th most picturesque figures in american american history andrew jackson was his name but to tits lita countrymen he to la affectionately known as aa old hickory it Is not a dato date for special observance because it IF Is tile the anal ot of his birth its aa Is alia case with other great areat Ainer americans lenns stather we It because it Is the anniversary niver sary of a ft battle which he fought anil and won w a on oil that urte date the battle of new orleans on january 8 1816 1815 la Is unique lo in military history it ts Is the only major engagement on record which was fought after a treaty of 0 peace between tile the two nations involved bad been signed but its bl in american history Is more than aliat tha curious corlous fact the war of fit 1812 wast waa a conflict fought by a tuition nation divided against itself it ivan ane one in ill which Amerle americans ansof of the th time took little pride at least so eo far as the record card of its if mili military tiry tones forces ton es was concerned disaster after disaster and reverse after reverse had bad caused the country to believe that tile the breed bree d of 0 successful generals such an aa it had known in the revolution was extinct then andrew Zack jackson sOll find and hla his frontiersmen at new orleans faced the best troops that areat BrIta britain lri could 30 mutter luster they wea were Welling tons veterans who had broken the power powe of napoleon nut but jackson cove ve them odds of two to one and defeated defeat cl them disastrously to a country that had almost completely lost loist faith itself to a country that had bad almost loomed learned to cringe this news came like a reprieve to a man upon the 11 says lerald gerald W john son on in andrew jackson an epic ellie in homespun it was literally craded with joy and in its delbri um cm it flung the nameon name of andrew jackson against agal ast the stars it if jackson did not really save new INOW orleans he guyed something infinitely wore more important nan namely tely the self respect of tho the coun tsy try in view of this it would seem that january 8 should be oneff one of the red letter days ou on tile the american can calendar the fact that it Is not to Is only further proof that the old paying buying A republic for bets Is true for janu january ary 8 Is not a general holiday nor even a state holiday to in that respect it cannot take rank with march 2 when texas recalls recall the dattle battle of san jacinto and honors the memory of sam houston nor with april 10 19 when massachusetts honors tho the patriots who villa fought at concord and lexington nor with august III 10 when vermont remembers how old john stark bent beat the fles hessians at bennington the only observance rance of the anniversary of tile the battle of now new orleans its aa a holiday Is in new orleans which has good reu rea son on to remember the name of andrew jackson in tact fact the only nationwide nation wide notice ot of this veram is a celebration which tins has only a me meager a ger connection with the battle suit and even eon this oc occurs cure intermittently hotly that to Is the jackson day dinn dinner e r held in washington by the lenders leaders of tho the den remo I 1 0 bratic party on january 8 end and there tribute Is vold paid more to andrew jackson taij mhd president and the founder of Jacks jacksonian onlan democracy than to hickory nic kory jaclson the soldier and military victor even though america has not chosen to honor tho the metri memory ory of andrew jackson by making a hull bull day of the date on which he won his great victory and started on the path which led eventually to the white house this doea not mean that he is forgotten or Is ever likely to be for as aa his blo biographer ir apher previously has pointed out lie ile Is the liero hero of tile the people mollie noi not ot of tile the intelligentsia Intelligent sip the people still delight lo in the legends of ills his prowess of his lurid language of his bis imperious and dicta orbal temper the tale of his fals usurpations does doca knot abot appall them but delights them for americans bave ave always loved a really masterful man it if jacksons Jach sona spiritual heir should appear now there is in eve every ry reason to believe america of the twentieth century would hall him no as rapturously and follow him as blindly as aa tt it hailed and followed the liero baro of long ago another reason waybe why he la Is not to be ford tor gotten lles allta intha fait fact thit that with the tha of W it it 1 44 I 1 iaz 4 IJ M V g IL orl 1 at a in o D C washington and lincoln more monuments a and nd markers have been erected to his memory nory than any other president fascinating as Is the story of jacksons career a story which Is familiar to roost americans equally interesting la Is tile the story of some of these ine mortals outstanding among them Is ali the famous rocking nc horse borse statue in ln la fayette park opposite tile white in wash ington perhaps Perli aps it Is particularly that this memorial to a ronn man whose life was turbulent from beginning to end should be th the subject for frequent and should furnish material for an almost endless debate among clans chins sculptors and horsemen hot seron the statue which ims tile the of being the first equestrian statue in the united states to Is tile the work of clark claris a new yorker born in 1816 1815 who drifted to south carolina Caroll nn whore where he worked in a pi dilister lister and cement hilll III while doing stucco work there lie he developed a method fur for taking a n cast from a living face and although lie he had no art education lie he benn began working in marble ills ilia first effort a bust of john CL calhoun was purchased by tile the city of Cli arlesten and he was given iven n gold by the commonwealth common wenith of south carolina mills next went to washington to make busts of webster und crittenden cruttenden on the way lie ha stopped in and there saw nou hou dons statue of washington the first real piece of sculpture lie he had oer ever seen scon Af alining riving tn in washington lie found plans were under way for the lie erection of tin an equestrian statue of jackion Jacks nn cave cae johnson To linsun then postmaster gen eral and president of the jackson monument corn com clittee PlIt tee invited him to submit a design deals n nut but mills never neer lieving seen an equestrian statue felt obliged to refuse tile lie offer error however Ho weer he was prevailed upon to make the ampt and having bought some land hind near lanham md aid ho he set up a foundry and a studio and vent unit to work for nine he fie drued p on a small model on a new principle that lint of hrin bringing ging the tha hind legs lee of ofa a horse directly beneath the ct anter of its it bod body thus thug producing perfect balance A race horse named olympus Olim pus wits hii his model for jacksons charger and he trained this horse hore to ioe for the work finally I nally his design was on fla dished and accepted by the and mills set get to worl work to wake make the bronze statue cannon captured by jackson at cessac censac Pen nta were to be melted down don for the statue of the tha horse and its rider and other guns front from the british at new orleans wits to ta he be used for the base bae hut but just when mills was ready to begin the mulling and it casting a gate gale destroyed his studio before he could rebuild it fire destroyed the foundry despite these handle handicaps ups to which aluch were ero added such misfortunes as the breaking of cranes the bursting of furnaces and six failures tn in making the body of tile the horse mills persisted until his work was completed just jest before the was dedicated mills as the head of a company coro piny of rul litin he had organized tried to ride olympus ot at the head hea of the tha parade the harse acre feeling that occasion as wax appropriate oue one did nome isome impromptu do DOS M R new ing ng on its hind less legs similar to the jackson at statue abue whereupon 1 reubon ita rider slid did off hastily and continued on his way afoot I 1 I 1 the statue was unveiled on january 80 8 and ana senator stephen A douglas of illinois was wa the orator for the occasion for nil all the ridicule that has been heaped up upon on jack jackson on and his rocking horse hoise the statue la Is a remarkable one tn in kanj many respects it Is mounted without pivots rivets or clamps of any kind among many people there Is an idea that the tall and hind legs of the horse were cast solid to balance the rest of the figure but bat this idea Is erroneous the statue Is balanced perfectly on the hind bind lets legs of the horse hone and despite the fact it has not shifted a fraction of an inch tn in the 73 75 years that it has stood on the same spot from the original model mills made a replica tor for new orleans and it stands today in jackson square originally called the tha placed place d armes but changed to honor the savior of the city after the historic battle la in 1816 1815 in that city another replica stands acanda on the grounds of the statehouse stat chouse in nashville tenn mills little statue of jackson brought him fame and he was commissioned to do others ethers the first was the equestrian statue of washington which stands in the circle of that name in the national capital another was the statue of armed liberty which stands elands on the dome of the capitol in washington if jacksons life was n disputatious disputations one it Is appropriate also that tant it should have begun on disputed ground and that the dispute over the scene of hla his birth should continue long after tits his death at the time of hla his birth starch 15 1707 1767 the boundary line between the two provinces of north and south carolina was not clearly defined that boundary llna tan north and south mouth less than a quarter of a mile from tile the log cabin in which andrew jackson first saw the light of day rut but was we the cabin enst east of the boundary line 1 e in south carolina or west of it hence in north carolina that Is a point over which his biographers arid and other historians have never been able to agree and so BO the two states of north carolina n and nd south hare had a part in another jackson controversy na as to which one belongs tha honor of being his native state apparently south carolina tins fins had the last word in the controversy for in november 1928 there was erected a marker on the james crawford Craw tord plantation 10 miles from mancaster I S 0 bearing on the front th these se words birthplace of andrew jackson brave brave truculent noble able honest on the rear Is nn inscription from a letter said to have been written by jackson to a lancaster citizen which rends reads 1 I was born in south carolina art ad I 1 have been told at the plantation whereon james crawford lived about crossing of the waxhaw creek find beneath that Is this inscription this stone stands upon the plantation whereon james crawford lived near the site of the dwelling house according to the mills map of 1820 the year 1020 saw nw the erection of another mo ma mortal to andrew jack jackson inn that was on april 10 15 when the statue of jackson was unveiled ansta in statuary hall in n the tha capitol it was presented to the federal government to by the be state of tennessee in honor of the centennial year of his inauguration as an president and was accepted on behalf of tile the nation by president the statue which shows jackson in the full fall drs dresa uniform of a major general of the regular army of his time cocked hat tight fitting military tary dress cost coat and breeches long cloak and high hoots Is the work of kinney schola formerly of nashville tenn on that occasion Preal president dent coolidge paid a tribute to jackson as one who exemplified the unlimited opportunities offered to men regardless of of seeming handicaps ill lip gave to the nationalistic spirit through loyalty to the union it a new strength which was decisive for tunny many years president coolidge said ills management of our foreign affairs was ans such ns as tb ta secure a wholesome respect for our government and the rights olour of our citizens tie ile left tb the treasury without obligations and with a surplus coming up from the people he demonstrated that there Is sufficient substance in n sell self government to solve important Import public questions and to rise superior to a perplexing crisis like a true pioneer lie he broke through all restraints and tin sediments pediments ments into which lie he was torn born and leaving f behind the and prejudices of his day out towards a larger freedom and a sounder government carrying the country with him it if at times he ans high tempered and overbearing there la Is no fairer story of chivalrous devotion and affectionate consideration than that which he lavished upon his wife rut but it if one would see the memorial which best exemplifies the tender side aide of andrew jackson it la Is necessary to go to nashville tenn and there visit the where he lived the days of his life with his beloved where the most crushing blow in his whole career her death was dealt him and where rt at last he died with a miniature of her next to hla his heart in that alne fine old mansion which has become a patr patriotic lotte shrine of the sort that mount vernon and jeffersons monticello are prever preserved ved as it war waa in the days when jack jackcon c 1 ion lived hied there one may come nearer understand understanding ing andrew Jit ekson not andrew jackson the indian fighter or the general or the politician or kt president but andrew jackson the man |