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Show Posterity Gives Jackson an Honor Bestowed Upon No Other American Has "Marked Out an Epoch and Called It by the Name of One Man," Says the Author of a New Biography of "Old Hickory" in Which He Is Portrayed as One of the Greatest Presidents Who Has Ever Occupied the White House in Washington. C> Western Newspaper Union. NOTE-January I Is widely cele· llrated as "Jackson Day" In honor of Andrew ,Jackson's victory over the British In the batue of New Orleans, which contributed materially to ldJ election to the presidency later. This article, appropriate to the observance of that day, II based upon the new blor:raphy, "Andrew .lackson-Por· trait of a President," written by lllarqals lames and published recent· ly by the Bobbs Merrill company of Indianapolis, thron~:h wbo•e courtesy 1everal of the Wustratious from thl book are herewith reproduced. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ARCH 4, 1837. Unlike many anoth, er Inauguration day in the city of Washington, this one was "bright and balmy." Down the steps of the Executive Mansion- Washingtonians had only recently began calling it the "White House"-came two men. One of them was slight in stature, something of a "dandy" in dress and appearance-Martin Van Buren of Kinderhook, N. Y., the "Little Magician," the "Red Fox," who was about to become President of United States. te other was a more comn ing figure, somewhat .-ben with age and recent illness. He leaned heavily on a cane, but there still flashed from his eyes that indomiPRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON table look which had caused From a portrait made at the White Bou.e Ia 1835 by .&.shel B. Durand, now men to hail him as "Old owned by the New Yurk Historical Society, Hickory." its preparation the author of the tenants, silenced the unwUllng and drove M ,. They entered a carriage and rode up Pennsylvania avenue toward the Capitol. A thunder of cheering rose from the thousands who lined that famous thoroughfare, then died down quickly and men removed their bats in reverential silence as the silverhaired old man in the carriage passed. The same silence spread over the multitude that filled the east lawn of the Capitol as the two men appeared on the portico. It eld while Chief Justice Taney administered the oath of office, while Martin Van Buren was delivering his inaugural address and even as Andrew Jackson started slowly down the broad steps. Then suddenly, as though unloosed by a signal, a mighty shout was raised. Thomas Hart Pulitzer prize-winning "The Raven-A Biography of Sam Houston" and of "Andrew JacksonThe Border Captain," bas put years of research during which he examined no less than 40,000 documents, not to mention hundreds of printed sources of information. And, as one critic has observed, "the result-an accurate and properly proportioned portrait of Andrew Jackson, the President-is a striking illustration of the truth of the observation of Carlyle that a well-written life is almost as rare as a wellspent one." e e • "Why was it that the people loved him so?" asks Biographer James, after describing the scene when "Old Hickory" stepped down from the Presidency. "In thronged Washington, where men .... THE FOURTH HERMITAGE F1alshed In 1835 after Its predecessor had been destroyed by fire, save for por· tlons of the exterior walls wbicb were used ln reba11ding. In the back~:round., right, Is Tulip Grove, tbe residence of Andrew Jackson Donelson. From an en~:ravlng made in 1856 and owned by the Ladles• Hermitage .&.ssoclatlon. Benton of Misscari, who was there that day, afterwards said: "It was a cry such as pow.er never commanded, nor man in power received. It was affection, gratitude and admiration .•• the acclaim of posterity breaking from the bosoms of contemporaries • • • I felt an emotion which had never passed through me before." It lasted for only a moment. Then . • • "Midway down the stone stairs General Jackson uncovered and bowed. A gentle wind stirred his silvery locks. The tumult died." And thus "Old Hickory" took leave of the Presidency of the United States and "after eight years laid down his burden, un· suspecting that on his times was an impress ,,.., characteristic and so deep tnat posterity would accord to Andrew Jackson an honor as yet vouchsafed no other Amer· tcan-that of marking out an epoch in our national history and calling it by the name of one man." So writes Marquis James in his "Andrew Jackson-Portrait of a President," the second and concluding volume of a biography which critics are virtually unanimous in hailing as "by all odds the best and most absorbing account of the life of Old Hickory that has yet been written." Into slept in barbers' chairs, the question was debated that night as it was destined to be debated a hundred years to come." From all that discussion Mr. James synthesizes this answer: Jackson iWaS born and reared In a frontier aristocracy-unpretentious, It Is true, but all that an aristocracy could attain to in the Waxhaws of that day and time. Hacking his way upward in the Tennessee wilderness, he rose to the height ol spokesman for one frontier class against another-nabobs versus leathershirts. Climbing higher, Jackson became a spokesman for the whole al· most autonomous West In the contests arising from the opposed Interests of the settled, commercial seaboard. The things of the West, even the nabob West, ad· vocated then seemed alluring to the land· less and the propertyless of the tldewa· ter cities. This fermentation shaped into a political movement during the hard times ol 1818·22, found the underpriv· Ueged and the lackalls of the East one with the established currents of western thc·.. ght. Andrew Jackson brought to the Pres!· dency lewer personal ambitions than any man excepting Washington. The grad· ual alteration from a border conserva· tive to a national liberal u noteworthy, b.t other eminent men have spanned a gerater acale of change. John Adami and Patrick Henry atorm Into history not as liberals, but as revolu· tionists ahoutlnt for bayonet£ and bar· r1cades. They rattle out, not as con· •ervatlves merely, but aa cantanker· ous reactlonariea . . . Emerging as a people's man, Jackson proffered no ordinary claims to that much-courted distinction. No mere arbiter between factions af followers. he atrode forth to Inspire. to lead, to govern. He not only reigned but ruled. He saw for the people what they could not see lor them· selves. The bank issue was as good as dead after the passing ol the twenties. Jackson revived it. lashed up an apattet· ic pu'ollc. lashed up apathetic !•eu- on to victory. All tbis rested on the philosophy of majority rule. When a majority was not at hand he endeavored to create it. When thfs could not be done In time, he went ahead anyhow. He was the majority pro · tern. Unfaillngly at the next election, the people would return a vote ol con· tldence, making his measures their own. Thll conlldence was not misplaced. U not every day In the year providing a government of and by the people. An· drew Jackson did provide one for them. He lived Dy valor. The people like that because It Is exciting and because It clothes them in the mantle of Fortuna, with enormous power over the destiny of a public servant. Andrew Jackson carried hla political life In the hollow of his hand, ready to risk It lor the cause of the hour whether that cause were great or small, good or bad ... Time and again, heedlessly and needlessly, be exposed himself to destruction by the popular will. That the people did not destroy him bewildered the opposition. "Jackson's Luck" became a Whig by· word. Jackson's luck was the kind that galna respect for the proverb that for· tune favora the brave. Fortune also favors the competent. to Jackson .•. was not opposition The No other of straw men. composed President has confronted a coalition of adversaries so able or so well furnished political resources the ordinary with Danielof Webster, Henry Clay, welfare. John c. Calhoun. Nicholas Biddle: Old Hickory met those great captains and their legions separately and in alliance. He beat them to their knees. Jackson giftssuccessful the peculiar Nor were Presidency to the brought alone in the management of the domes· tic concerns of a democracy. His for· of the the prestige raisednation eign policy not to a height American young before attained among the powers of the respect world. Jackson.for fromabroad rights dates AmericanGenuine Through it all he had walked humbly. Departing for horpe one summer he dl· rected mall to be forwarded to him, re· near as offollows: addressed Davidson County, Health, "Hermitage, tM Fountain Tennessee." The Fountain ol Health w.fs a healing spring of popular resort and, In the General's estimation, the most widely known place ln the locality. If proof of the a~curacy of that estimate of Andrew Jackson is needed, if additional evidence is desired to show why he was beloved by the people of his time and why his name is honored by Americans of today almost as much as are the names of Wash· ington and Lincoln, perhaps both can be found in the statements of some of his contemporaries. A German nobleman, visiting in this country during the "reign of Jackson," quoted an unnamed senator, "who assumed to speak without partisanship" as follows: "General Jackson called himself the people's friend and gave proofs of his sincerity ••• He understood the people of the United States better, perhaps, than any President before him, and developed as much energy in his adm inistration as any American statesman ••• Whether all his measures were beneficial to the people is beside the point; they were in unison with his political doctrines and carried through with an iron disregard of personal consequence, notwithstanding the enormous opposition that wealth and talent could put in the way of their execution." And Daniel Webster, one of those whom he "met and beat to their knees," once declrred: "General Jackson is an htJnest and upright man. He does what he thinks is right, and does it with all his might." "He does what he thinks IS right, and does it with all his might" - many an American would like to think that such a statement is the essence of his own credo. But, realizing that he does not live up to that ideal, there is some comfort for him in giving his loyal devotion to a man who does) It would be pleasant to chron- uuutuuuutu.uu.u. icle the fact that Andrew Jack· son, after eight turbulent years in the White House, returned to his beloved Hermitage near Nashville, Tenn., to spend his remaining years in peace. UnforBy Lemuel F. Parton tunately, the opposite was tr"Je. When he went to Washington in 1829, he carried $5,000 with ~· 1 ithhhhhhhhhhif When he returned to Tennessee ~~ ; NEW YORK.-A new youth move· ment is sweeping the world, and 1837 there was just $90. in h 1 wallet. And that fact 1S sym- I the oldsters are mumbling In their bolic of the car~er of Andr.ew beards. New York city ousts aging policemen.. GoverJackson, ex-President. Dur~g nor Aiken of Verhis long absence in the servtce New Youth mont clamors for 1 of the nation his personal for- Movement new young blood 1 tunes had suffered and ~ou~h in the Republican the remaining years of h1s life Stirs World he wa~ to ~ow ~ttle relief from party. The also young Governor I B rrows of Maine quickly indorses financial difficulties. th~s demand for "new faces, ambi· his to due was this of Most and ideals." And In England tions adopted son, Andrew Jack~on, Jr., who,.seems to have had little a young Jewish statesman brings a of the strength of character or call for the stretcher-bearers in the ability of his foster father. For he stuffy old army club, as, with youthbecame "involved in a bottomless ful zest he rocks the foundations bog of debts" for which his fath- of empi~e-again under the banner er was in no way responsible but of youth. When Leslie Hore-Belisha, war which he chose to assume because of "a supersensitiveness secretary, passed over fifty elderly to personal honor and because. of generals to up the younger and more an affection for the boy which vigorous Viscount Gort to the high nothing had been able to .de- command he incurred sharp criticism and • challenge In parliament s troy. " Nor were these personal affairs and loosed a vast amount of tongue1Ltl6 the only ones to trouble Andrew wagging all through conservative Jackson. Although he had r~ England. His army shake-up, in the Intertired from public life, that did not mean he was no longer co~- est of ''new blood," was the most cerned with the welfare of his drastic of modern times and has be· country. Probably no other ex· come highly personailzed around only afford President has ever had such a the dynamic ftgure of the young war "GEE, if I could dress I 1aw the darline that direct part in shaping the d.es- secretary. other day-I'd give my left They don't object to his being Jewtinies of the nation after leavmg We who are addicted .__ _ _ __.:..a.-1----~~ the White House as did Andrew ish. They have had too many bril- arm-l" pretty clothes and subject to to J ackson. 1uant Readings, Sassoons, Disraelis, the usual feminine foibles (but not pattern will convince you that He had brought about the elec- and Samuels in their government to too well-blessed financially) often Sew-Your-Own "really has sometion of Martin Van Buren and he worry about that. What disturbs make a wish like this, don't we? thing there.'' helped his successor guide the 1 them is the fact that :Mr. Here- Ah, but here's good news, Milady! 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He invent· Edward Borja ol New York City. Change Wishes to Stitches WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK ••• I I ~- Temple Square another campat·gn came around the annexation of Texas-that republic which Old Hickory's lieu• tenant, Sam Houston, had helped found-was the most important question of the day. Jackson wanted Texas in the Union. But Martin Van Buren, again a candidate for the Democratic nomination, feared to risk defeat at the hands of anti-slavery Northern Democrats and straddled. So James K. Polk won the nomination and the election. There was no doubt where Polk s~ood .on. the Texas question. But d1squ1etmg rumors came to ~a~ks~n. Sam Houston was. fhrtmg wtth Engla_n?-Texa~ mi~ht become ~ B~ItJsh prov~ce mstead of commg mto the Umon. T~ere were several week~ of pamful doubt. for the . patriarch .of the Hermit~ge ~htle Sam Houston play~g off Engl~nd, was France, M.exico and the l!mted States agamst each other m the " H · f d. 1 coc.k pitt o . lp!omaTcy. the :a~ try~g o wm ?r . exas e es possible ~argam m re~urn for surrend:rmg her sovereignty. Then m May, 1845, came word that Houston wo_uld accept the terms ?f annexation offered in a resolut.JOn passed by congress and s;gned by John Tyler on March 1, three days bef~re he turned over his office to his suecessor. "Glorious tidings! Old Hickory traced a note to James K. Pol't: 'I knew British gold could not b..xy Sam Houston!' F~ghting for breath Jackson signed his 'My lamp is nearly name. burned out, and the last glimmer has come.' " As a matter of fact, his lamP, had been burning out for the last five years. But Andrew Jackson simply WOULD NOT DIE until Texas was safely in the Union. It was not until ,Tu.1e 6, 1845, that I the "last glimmer" really came. ed the sphygmomano-meter, or lie bl d pressure b d detector, ase on oo variants. He was a teacher at Radcliffe college, but romped through law school, practiced law, stirred in a dash of psychology with the Black· stone and became professor of legal psychology at the American univer· From 1926 alty at Washington. to 1929, he was lecturer on psycho!· ogy at Columbia university. He is likely to bob up any time with some new prov?cative idea, l and he never .ca;ls •h's shots. SUBJECTS of Charles Keck's ear· lier monwnental sculpture were • 1 Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, . James Madison and Stonewall Jack· son. Now he's go· Huey Long ing to do Huey Long-twelve feet Fa Subject high on a thirty· foot pedestal, with of Statue the legend, "Share Our Wealth," and marble winged pegasus, denoting 1 · f th . . . the vaultmg aspirations o e s1am statesman. There will also be sym· bolized Huey Long's benison of school books, roads and bridges Mr. Keck, prolific in heroic design !or nearly forty years. could easily take all that in his stride. His great !riendship monument at Rio de Ja· ne!ro Is much more complicated, memorializing statesmen clasping hands and flags Intertwined. He is a native of New York, for five years a pupil of St. Gaudens, winner of the Prix de Rome. Far· are his memorial sculptures lhmg ; throughout the country-statesmen, l equestrian statues, architectural . sculpture, war memorials, all of sound classical design. The whimsical John J. Raskob was the only patron who ever led him astray. He had him do a rol· licking Pan and some sportive cher· ubs for a fountain. New York knows him best for the imposing lady read· ing a book at the gates of Columbia 1.111iversity. C Consolidated News Featurea. WNU Service. 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