Show THE DAY WE CELEBRATE some few papers believe at least they have announced that yesterday was toe the anniversary of the birth of andrew jackson and hence the delig nation jackson Jac kaona 1 and the widespread recognition of it nut not so BO old hickory was wae burn born ou the day ot of mareb march 1767 in the state of north carolina but so BO near the lower border that some claim his bia birthplace to have been as aa much in the southern as the northern carolina his father facher was waa a native irishman Ir lahman and bore the same name as the sou his early life was waa of the most obscure and humble character aud with but the rudiments of an education he be started out at a youthful age to hew a pathway through this vale ul of tears tor for himself being possessed ol of great physical courage and destruct tive nebs lu ju sufficient quantity with the other qualities necessary to the makeup make up of a soldier hold ler he was not lung in distinguishing himself as a leader of the whites in the indian wars of the time and he was not without some bitter experiences as a lad among the british soldiery during the closing years of the revolution he got into a law office studied hard was admitted to the berand bar and practiced with considerable success albeit to his dying day he be not write the duglish language nor ol 01 course any other correctly his forced march to now new orleans orleane arriving on the 2nd and of december 1814 was waa not excelled in the hardihood and determination displayed by napoleons napoleon scaling of the alps on his hie march to italy some years previously knowing that lord Fa pakenham kenham with 1 0 of his ate brother in islawa law s le chaij eat troops sea seasoned boned on the held a waterloo was on his way to efine landing and subsequently to accoo abec it possible what had been abat atoned by our english cousins thin thirty years before jackson lost no tj giuna in neither sickness nor hunger lack a of transportation facilities nor the rigor of a tramp through a trackless holli log ing wilderness could stay slay him with a out cut from a british saber li many years before still frankli rankling and spurring him bim on to er braoo al vengeance there was that additional and greater incerti v of preserving america to the aniorte cans rind and keeping crowned headland hea heads and i i heir satellites forever from our shored jackson hastily throw threw up earthwork capped in places ottto cotton bales ara with all possible preparations baft mad was ready for the enemy when b landed soon atter alter a movement wk made by entire force of men against jacksons posit position lon attempting to capture it by direct assault assa ulf although the american forces numbered but half of the enemy the latter were repulsed with great great slaughter the gallant leader himself being among the slain and 2600 of lk i men left dead or wounded on the alel field jackson lost eight in killed and abi to L teen wounded this the erea teft military victory of modern times cooj place on the ath of january 1814 am 1 I it has ever since borne the name jacksons day the day we oel eel brate i general jackson at once vaulted t the topmost round of the ladder fame he was almost unknown bet betoi 0 but the people pe ople got acquainted W wl rl the ope customary tomary rapidity in stu BUC cases came he became governor oll florida united states senator f from rennee see aud and president for two terna although defeated the first time he jmj raft for the last named place he we waa neither a protectionist nor or a afree trad 14 believing that the former system aou would 2 1 be the means of lending gover government 1 4 1 aid and recognition to private ent brisee and that the latter would re i t 0 J suit in crippling our new dow and gro ing doubtless his ex elc K position if it could be placed in m me modern phraseology would be show j to have been similar to that of his hia D lotical descendants of today a mode mod ate tariff adjusted to the of the government jackson was very V 0 o self willed a personality re remarkably markab and power cha 11 terl ter zing izing all his public acts and ut anee agoes he was a cromwell in jk k j different age and in another lant land aud according to some accounts WM was 1 bouce ou on the eve of duplicating aba great gloat el performance of fw dispersing parliament this was when the senate antagonized him oft the banking scheme scheibe schei ie so exasperate was wag he be at what he be confide considered the lawmakers corrupt tendencies an and lack of patriotism that he be would ha haw va I 1 kone to the chain chambers bers and driven abs tbs th senators out with his walking stick had bad he be not been restrained it was a good thing for the country that ja jack son was nearly always on the n right side aide of every national ional proposition otherwise the mischief he might ha harft wrought is incalculable r the day is being variously observer observe by our democratic arnds in batt lake city and elsewhere in the territory showing that here amid the the memory ot of old hick orys achievements to is green and fragrant and that is a great mans record teay outlive hla his life more than half a century in this land of the free and home of the brave in fact there are some ome of whom it may be said eaid that they are of and with the brave the immortal few that WOW were not born to die and the name of andrew jackson tanda stands conspicuously among them |