Show ANDREW JACKSONS MARRIAGE laws wro ly lux x uail and old hickory much care for them of general jacksons marriage anna it 11 wharton writes as follows in a recent paper it is not our purpose here to discuss the propriety or impropriety of 0 jacksons marriage with a divorcee ilia 1118 carelessness in not thoroughly investigating ti the legal bearings ot of the cast case Is absolutely unpardonable there was really no do law of 0 divorce in virginia at this time the legislature ot of virginia passed an act authorizing the supreme court of kentucky to try the case with a jury robards took no action tor for two years two or three years after their marriage upon hearing bearing of 0 the final action of the court of quarter sessions ot of mercer county ky in granting a divorce jackson and mrs robards were mere married again the tha circumstances ot of the marriage were such says mr sumner as to provoke scandal at the time and the scandal which in tile the case of 0 a more obscure man would have died out during thirty thirty years of honorable wedlock came up oner oer and over again during jacksons career it is plain that jackson himself was to blame tor for contracting a marriage under ambiguous circumstances and for not protecting his cifes honor by precautions such as finding out the exact terms of the act ot of the of 0 virginia having put her in a false position against which as a man and as a lawyer lie he should have protected her he was afterward led by his education and the current ways of thinking in the society about him to try to heal the detects defects of his marriage certificate by shooting any man who dared to state the truth that said certificate was irregular |