I HoNoRiNG the MEMORY h OT of OLD HICKORY j 1 Sw 4 I. I m J J T tt I r 13 fm l t j I M t 17 I I l' l II t b u h r t. t 4 jp I t j ii f I r I s. s J t J T 7 A. A 1 c f M a G 3 as Ing on Its hind I legs gs similar to the Jackson statue x whereupon Its rider r slid ore off hastily and continued continue d 1 C s as on his way afoot The statue was unveiled o on 5 nay January 8 1853 and Senator Stephen A. A A Douglas of ot Illinois was the orator for tor the occasion 1 I For F r all the thc ridicule that has been heaped upon s Jackson and his rocking horse the statue Is a n remarkable one In to many respects It Is mounted e I h without pivots pl rivets or clamps of at any kind V Amon Among many people there Is an nn idea that the tall tail talland I r 5 and hind le legs s of at the horse were cast solid to balane balance bal once ance the rest of the figure But this l Idea en i is g erroneous The statue Is balanced perfectly o ot on t a the hind legs of at the horse and despite the fact 1 It t has hns not shifted a n fraction of at an inch in the 75 years that it has stood on the same spot From t. t i J L F the original model Mills made a replica for New Orleans and It stands to today in Jackson square orl originally called the Place d' d Armes but changed S 5 yam to honor the savior of the eft city after the historic S 1 Y battle In 1815 In that city Another replicaS replica stands standS' on the grounds of at the statehouse In Nashville Nash Nash- g vine ville Tenn w 55 Mills Mills' statue of ot Jackson brought him fame tame and e rJ 2 ho hp was commissioned to do others The first was T 1 i the equestrian statue of Washington which stands U Unveiling 1 Jackson ee on Statue Ing in the circle of that nam name In the National Capital m in Statu Y- Y Another was the statue of Armed Armel Liberty which 4 i. i stands on the dome of the Capitol In to Washington ashington By ELMO SCOTT WATSON WATSO If Jacksons Jackson's life lier was n n a disputatious one It Is ANUAR 8 is a da day for recalling one sd appropriate also that It should have ha begun on disputed dis lis- I J of the most picturesque figures in 1 ground and that the dl dispute over the scene I American history Andrew Jackson ft of his birth should continue long after his death was his name but to his countr countrymen y men Y f At the time of his birth March Malch lo Hi 1707 the he is affectionately known as Old boundary line between the two provinces s of Hi Hickory It is not a date for special North and South Carolina was not clearly defined I fth oe observance ance because cause It ft Is s the anniversary anal anni That boundary line rn ran ran 1 north and south less than thann of ot his birth as Is the case b n a quarter of a mile mUe from the 10 log cabin In which with other great Americans Rather Rather- Andrew Jackson first saw the light lIht of ot day But nut we remember remembert It t because It Is the anniversary an an- was the cabin east of the boundary line I. I e e. e Inti In ry of a battle which he fought ti South Carolina or orP P west t of at it tt hence Ince In North and won on that date 1 4 Carolina That Is a point over oyer which his biographers blog- blog The Battle of New Orleans Oilcans on January 8 1815 rappers raphers and other hJ historians have never been beens s unique In military history It Is ls the only major able to agree on record which was fought after a ak v And so the two states of at North Carolina and andreat reat reaty of peace between the two nations involved South Carolina have had a n part In another Jackson Jack ad been signed But its significance In American 4 son controversy els as ns to which one belongs the I tory Is more than that curious fact The War honor of being his native e state Apparently South f t 1812 was a conflict fought by a nation divided Statue StEl at 0 Carolina has had the last word In the controversy contro contra m Itself k It was one r. r In which Americans of at liC ll D. D C C. versy for In fn November ember 1928 J 8 88 there was erected le at least so tar ns the a marker on the James Crawford Cranford plantation 10 lIVIU 01 w us forces caress was concerned Disaster after disaster and reverse erse after re- re erse had caused the country to believe that the reed of at successful generals such as ns It had hud known i t the Revolution Re was extinct Then Andrew ickson and his frontiersmen at New Orleans teed iced the best troops that Great Britain could uster They were Wellington's veterans who had Token the power of Napoleon But Jackson gave gaye tern iem odds of two to one and defeated them To a country that had almost completely st faith in Itself to a country that bad had almost a arned rued to cringe this news came like a reprieve e n Ii man upon the gallows says Gerald W. W Johnn John John- n In Andrew Jackson An Epic In Homespun t wa was literally crazed with Joy and In Its n D It flung the name of at Andrew Jackson against e Ie stars If Jackson did not really save ew Orleans he he saved something Infinitely more namely the self-respect self of the connIn conn- conn y yo In view of this It would seem that January 8 be one of ot the red letter days on the Amer an calendar The fact that it Is not Is only proof that the old saying A MA republic forts torts for tor ts Is true For January 8 Is not a general holly holl holl- y 1 nor even a state holiday In that respect It take rank with March 2 when Texas reUs re- re Us Ils the Battle of at San JacInto and honors the mory of ot Sam Houston nor with April 19 10 when honors the patriots who fought at and Lexington nor Lexington nor with August 16 10 when remembers how old John Stark beat the at Bennington The only observance e of 3 anniversary of ot the tIle Battle of at New Orleans as holiday Is In New Orleans which has good real rea- rea i l to remember the name of at Andrew Jackson rn In fact the only wide nation-wide notice of this annl annl- Is a celebration which has only a n meager with the battle and even this occurs That is the Jackson Day dinner id ld In Washington by the leaders of at the Demo Demo- ItIC party on January 8 and there tribute Is Isid id ld more to Andrew Jackson the President and founder of ot Jacksonian Democracy than to Id Hickory Jackson the soldier and military tor ven thou though America has not chosen to honor memory of Andrew Jackson by making a boll holi- v of ot th the date on which he won his great vie vie- vIey 7 y and started Sn n the path which led eventually e the White House this does not mean that he forgotten or Is ever er likely to be For as ns his grapher previously has pointed out lIe He Is the theo o 0 of at the people not of ot the Intelligentsia The pie still delight In the legends of hits his prowess prowess his hL lurid language of at his Imperious and dicta dicta- lal ml temper The tale of his usurpations does appall them but delights them for Americans C e always loved lo a really masterful man If It spiritual heir should appear now there very every reason to believe America of the century would hail hall him as rapturously andow and andow andow ow him as blindly as It hailed balled and followed the o 0 of long ago nother reason why he be Is not likely to be bc torten forten for for- forten ten lies In the fact tact that with the exception of ot otI I Washington and Lincoln more monuments and markers have been erected to his memory than any other President Fascinating as Is the story of ot Jacksons Jackson's career a story which is familiar to most Americans equally Interesting is the story of at some of these memorials Outstanding among them Is the famous rocking horse statue in Lafayette Lafayette La La- fayette park opposite the White House Hous In Wash Wash- Ington Perhaps It Is particularly appropriate that this memorial to a man whose life lite was turbulent turbulent tur tur- bulent from beginning to end should be the thc subject for tor frequent controversy ersy and should furnish furnish material mate rial for an on almost endless endle s debate among politicians politicians clans sculptors and horsemen The statue which has hns the distinction of being the first equestrian statue in the United States Is the work of Clark Mills a R New Yorker born In 1816 1815 who drifted to South Carolina where he worked In a plaster and cement mill While doing stucco work there he developed a method for tor taking a 0 cast from a living face tace and although he be had no art education he be be began an working In marble His first effort a bust of at John C C. Calhoun was purchased by the city of Charleston and he was given a gold medal by the commonwealth of South Carolina Mills next went to Washington to make busts of Wt Webster and Crittenden On the way he lie stopped In Richmond anc and there saw Hou- Hou dons don's statue of at Washington the first real piece of sculpture he had ever seen I Arriving In Washington he found plans were under way for the erection of an equestrian statue of at Jackson Cave Johnson then postmaster general gen eral and president of at the Jackson monument committee com com- committee invited him to submit a design But Mills never having ha seen Reen an equestrian statue felt obliged to refuse the offer afTer However Howe he was prevailed prevailed pre pre- ailed upon to make the attempt and having ln bought some land near Lanham Md he set up upa a foundry and a studio and went to work For nine months he worked patiently on a small model on a new principle that principle that of bringing the hind legs of a n horse directly beneath the center of its It body thus producing perfect balance A race horse named Ol Olympus was his model for Jacksons Jackson's charger er and he trained this horse to pose 1050 for the work Finally his hIli design n was fin fin- and accepted by hy the commission and Mills set to work to make male the bronze statue Cannon captured by Jackson at fit were to be melted down for the statue of ot the horse and Its rider and other guns captured from the British at New Orleans was to he be used for the base But Ju Just t when Mills 1 was ns ready to be begin In the melting and recasting a gale destroyed ld his studio Before he could rebuild It fire destroyed the foundry Despite these handicaps to which were added such misfortunes as the breaking of at cranes the bur bursting of furnaces and null six failures In making the body of the horse Mills UlIs persisted until his bis work was completed d. d Just before th the statue was dedicated Mills as the head lund of r 1 company of militia he had organ organ- tried to ride Olympus at ot the head pf Qt the parade The horse perhaps feeling that occasion occasion- was wag an D. D appropriate one did some Impromptu pos pos- I f miles from Lancaster S S. S C. C hearing bearing on the front these words Birthplace of Andrew Jackson brave truculent noble able honest On the rear Is an Inscription from a letter said to have been written by Jackson to a Lancaster citizen which reads I was born in South Carolina asI as asI asI I have been told at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived U about crossing of at the Waxhaw Waxhaw Wax Wax- haw Creek and beneath that Is this inscription This stOlle stands upon the plantation whereon James Crawford lived near the site of ot the dwell ing house according to the Mills map of 1820 1520 The year 1020 1120 saw aw the erection of another me memorial mortal morial to Andrew Jackson That was vas on April 15 when the he statue of Jackson Jackson on was unveiled In Statuary Sta Sta- teary hall In the Capitol It was presented to the federal government by the state of Tennes Tennessee ee In honor of the centennial year of his Inauguration as President and was accepted on behalf of the nation by hy President Coolidge e The sta statue tue which shows Jackson In the full dress uniform of at a I major general of the regular of ot his army time time time- cocked hat tight fitting g military dress coat cant and breeches long cloak and ond high hoots Is the work of ot Belle Kinney Scholz formerly of ot Nashville Tenn On that occasion President Coolidge paid I a tribute to Jackson as one who nho exemplified the unlimited opportunities otTer offered d to men regardless regard regard- I less of ot seeming handicaps ps He lIe gave Jn to the nationalistic spirit through loyalty to the Union a 8 new str strength which was decisive e for tor many years President e I said His management of our forel foreign n affairs was Vas such as to secure a n whole wholesome ome respect for tor our government and the rights of our citizens He lIe I left the treasury without obligations obligation and with a surplus Coming up from the people he demonstrated that there Is s sufficient suh substance tane In self govern govern- ment meat to solve Important public questions and find to rise superior to a perplexing crisis IR Like n a true pioneer he broke through all rest restraints and Impediments Im Im- pediments Into which he was horn born and lea In leaving I 1 behind the provincialisms prO and prejudices of l his Ws s j day ay pushed out Iut towards a larger cr freedom and arid a n I j soun sounder j government go carrying the country countr with I him If at he was hl high h tempered and overbearing overhearing over over- I bearing hearing there therl Is Tio no fairer story stor of chivalrous devotion dt and affectionate consideration than that which h he lavished upon his wife I our nut ir a one aile would see the memorial which best exemplifies the tender side of at Andrew Jackson It Is only necessary to go to Nashville Tenn and there visit Ish the Hermitage where he lived the happiest days of hl his life Ilfe with his beloved Rachel Hachel where the most crushing blow in his whole career her death was dealt him and where at last he died with a miniature of at her next ne t to hi his hip heart In that fine old mansion which has become a n patriotic shrine of the sort that Washington's Mount Vernon and Jeffersons Jefferson's MontIcello arr orp preserved as ns It was waR In the days das when Jackson Jacson lived II there one may come nearer understanding Andrew not Jackson Jackson not Andrew Jackson the Indian Indi Indi- an fI fighter fighter or or 01 the general or the politician or the President but Andrew Jackson the man