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Show H "OLD HICKORY." Bj Next Thursday will be Jackson Day. A great Bj soul his. Not much learned, altogether undisci- B plined, naturally selfish, harsh and impatient; a B good deal of a bully, a man who, had he re- B i mained in lowly life, would have had a fight B with some neighbor every day; a fight about a B ( pig or a dog or a line fence anything, he would B . not Have cared what. J Still, a great soul, brave enough to face death 1 Bj without a tremor, with clear judgement to know Blj what to do and with the courage to do it, no matter what the odds, and above all, a patriot so B intense that fortune, life all that men hold dear B were as nothing in the balance when his country B ' called him. No wonder he stamped his name up- B on his age; no wonder that on every anniversary B i of the day on which he proved his sovereign right ! of recognition, his party draws around its altars B i to repeat his name, recall his life and draw new B ; inspiration from his memory. |