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Show A NDKKW JA4 KSON. Today domocratH all over the broad nrca of our republic will observe or at least think of the seventy-seventh anniversary an-niversary of the battle of New Orleans. And why should not men of all parties think of that grand patriot, ANDREW Jackson, even though they may not join in observance with democrats of tho victory which gave him national lamp, the memory of which very largely contributed toward making him president presi-dent of the United States, in order of which he was tho seventh, having served two terms, viz.; From 1829 to 1H:17. Referring to tho battle of New Orleans, Or-leans, how much of the fame he justly earned on that occasion would have been a blank iu historical mention had the facilities existed that now ex la I for almost instantaneous communication all over our land aud to countries more or less remote across thousands of miles of water between the old and the new world. The treaty of (ihenl. which is in the present kingdom of Belgium, was ratified at that place December 24, 1814; the battle of New Orleans was fought uioru than two weeks later, ami it was two weeks or more thereafter before tin; American people learned that that famous battle, had been fought, on a dead issue. Assuredly it was a dead one so far as the British commander, (ieneia! I'M KliNlIAM, was concerned, for he fell dead from a well directed rille shot from some sharp shooter, perhaps per-haps from Governor West's good old state of Kentucky. In civil life AlfOKKW JacKsov distinguished dis-tinguished himself as he had done iu the time of war. lie was a born ruler. Tenacious in purpose, tirm to a degree that he was considered by his political opponents as obstinate to an extent that would ruin his party and himself, him-self, he was master of tho situation, situ-ation, so much so, that ho made the pathway easy for his successor. Ma ktin Van BruicN, who was Infinitely his inferior, in-ferior, and whose only prominent achievement, after his retirement from the presidency in 1841 was in directly contributing to the success of ZachaBI Tavi.ok, a whig, in 18-18. Andrew Jackson was the first president pres-ident eleeteil who bore the distinctive party name, democrat. Previous to the administration of his predecessor, John Qi:in v Adaih, designations of political parties were federalist and democratic-republican. The era oi "good feeling" is traced from the close of our second war with (ireaf Britain, which closed during the administration of James Mapison, and which extended ex-tended onward to the stormy contest of 1824, when John QutNCT Apams became be-came president through the choice of the house of representatives, the (doctoral (doc-toral college having failed to make an election, although Jackson led In the vote of that body. It was at that time that the practice of rewarding friends and punishing enemies Qnl came in vogue in polities. Prior to John QUTJICY Adams' administration, appointees ap-pointees of the president and his subordinates held their positions posi-tions solely upon merit. Adams tirst began departure from that principle, and Jackson, followed it up with a Vengeance that would make George William Cruris shudder had he lived at that time, and he ever been sincere in his professed advocacy of civil service ser-vice reform. To Jackson is attributed the utterance utter-ance "to the victors belong the spoils." lie never gave utterance to that sentiment. senti-ment. It originated with William L. Makcv of New York, secretary of state mdor Franklin Fierce. This pernicious perni-cious principle has crept into the body politic, beginning, as we have stated, and we don't know what power short of Omnipotence will ever succeed In eradicating erad-icating it from thifl nation. Andrew Jack-on has been iu his grave since the year 1845, but all Americans, Amer-icans, be they either democrats or republicans, re-publicans, will revere his memory, "liy the eternal" will always be a familiar Kontcnco among us all, and its expression expres-sion can never fail to recall the will power, tho determination to do right, and the patriotic devotion to the country coun-try under whoso flag he had fought, the supremacy of which he u;fheld with masterly ability alike in war and iu peace. |