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Show m Tin; day v. ci.Ltiiit.vTi:. E Bomo few papora lollevr, at least ' thoy liavo announced, tltat ycslirday tr was tho annlvrnary of tho birth of I Anilruw JaoltaoD, nnit linnoo thu do lg- r nation "Jackiou'a tiny" and the wldo r eprcad rcosulllou of it. Not eo; "OKI Hlckorj" wna born ou llio 15th day of March, 1767, in tho citato ol N'orlli Carolina but o near tho lower border that eoino claim hla hlrtbplacu to have been a much In tho eouthrrn at tho northern L'arollni, Hie father wa u I native Irishman and boru the rume namunathu son, UUoarly life wai ot i tho tno&t obaouro and humble chnracter, ud with but the rudliueuU ol nn tdii-oallon tdii-oallon ho atattod out ut n youthlul ago to how a pathway through thU valu ul tears (or himself. Ilelng poMesird ol great phjalcal courage utitl deilruo-tlvenois deilruo-tlvenois lu fulllclent iuiutlly wit thu other qualUte neccsaitry to tho mako-up of a loldlcr, lie vr&a not long In Ulilltigulalilug lilmaelf ns a leader of tbo wlillw lu tholndlon wars of tho lime; and ho M aa not without eomo bitter uxperiencee ua n lid among thu British aolllery during the closing J rare of the Hovolu-tlon. Hovolu-tlon. lie got Into a law ofllec, ftudlu I hard, wai admitted to the liar nud practiced Willi cousldernulo nucccsi, albeit t) lilt dying day he could not wrlto the lngllsh language nor, of oourrc, any other correctly. Hla forced raircb to New Orloani, arriving an thu 2nd ol December, 1814, was not excelled lu the hardihood nnd determi nation displayed by Napoleon' Boiling Boil-ing ol the Alp on hi march to Italy H eotne ycura previously. Knowlnj that B Lord la1tenliam, with U,O00 of Ills H brotlierdu-law'i (Welllujton's) ouolo- H nit troops, aeauned ou the 111 Id of H Waterloo, was on ills way to eirct n H landing and tubstiiuently to accom. H i pllsh If salble what hod been alan-donedby alan-donedby our JlnjIUli ciualns thirty ycara bsfore, Jackson lost no time; neither sickness nor hunger, lack of transportation facilities nor the rigor ot a tramp ttmujh a tracklest, howling howl-ing wlldorneis couU ttay him, With a cut from n llrltlih saber Inflicted many years bofore allll rankling and spurring him on to i clonal clon-al Tengeitno, there the additional an I greiter Incentive of preaervlng Amerlot to tho Annrl-caua Annrl-caua nn 1 keeping urovvnet heaia.inl ihelraitellllei forever fom our snores. Jackson hutlly throw up oirthworka cippeJ lu placet with cotton htlua, and with all ponalbto preparations male was rraly for tin onemy when ho Ian lid; anon alter n mivument was mala by 1'akenhani's entire fjreo of S0O0 men ngilust Jackson's position, attempting ti aipluro It hy direct nvault. Although the American forces numbered but half of (he enemy, llio httcr wero rapulsel wills great slaughter, tho gallant leaJer lllunell being nmong the shin and SOOIof his men loft dead or wounded on tho field. Jackson lost eljht In killed an I thirteen thir-teen woaudul. This, tho greitesl military victory ol modern times, took place on tho Slh ol Jan'iary, 1311, an I It has over since birno the nimeol "Jacksn'i day" the day we celebrate. cele-brate. Ucncral Jackson at once vaullol to thn topmost rounl of the ladder of fame, lie waaalmistunknown before, but tho people got ncmialutoi with tho customary rijddlly In such cases. He became Rovornor of I'lorlda, United Htates eouatar from reiincsseo and President for two terms, although defeited (he flrittlme ho ran for thu last'iitmed pltau. He was neither a protectionist not afrcetrader, believing that the former ytem would bo the moins of lending government all nnd recognition to prlvata enterprises enter-prises nnd that tho latter would result re-sult in crippling our now nnd grow-Ing grow-Ing Induitrlo.; dmibtlost, Ills oxact poaltlou, If Itoiull boplacol In mora mo lorn plirasroloy, would bo shown tiliavabeensloilltrtothst of Ills no-IlllcalUvscenilantsof no-IlllcalUvscenilantsof today i molar-ate molar-ate tarlli adjusted to tho clrcunulancoi of the govrninsut. Jackson was very clf-wlllrJ, a personality romrkahln firllalnclslvenesa and power chario-lerlzlng chario-lerlzlng nil Ills publlo nets nud utterances. utter-ances. He was u Cromwell in a ilillcrent aire nnl In anothor land, aud according to some accounts was onos on tho evo ot duplicating the great Kngllshuisn' performance of dispersing 1'arllntnent; this was when the Henatn passed the banking bill over Jacksou'a veto; so exaspirated was ho at wht ha considered the lawmakers' corrupt tendencies nnd lack of patriotism lint lie would liavo gone to tho chamber an I driven the seuators out with his wilklnf stick had ho not been restrained. It was a good thln for the country tint Jaok-sou Jaok-sou was nearly always on the right side of overy uatltml proposition, otherwlso thomhohtef ho might have wrought Is Incalculiblo. The day is being vulouily observed by our Domocratla friends in Halt Like City an 1 elsewluroln tho Territory, Terri-tory, showing that here arulJ the mountains the memory ol "Old Hickory's" Hick-ory's" achievements is grrun and fragrant, fra-grant, and that m great man' record may outlive Ids life more than hall n oontury In this laud of thefuoaud home of the brave; In fact, theru ore some of whom it uny bo said that they nrootand with The brare, the Immortal far, Ibst nero not Luru to d & And the namo of Andrew Jackson staads conspicuously union them. |