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Show 'Honoring the Memory ' y ' 'flj V-s j ! i,Sl- 1 t . 7 " -Mm lM M&iX I t.d :14ftlh H ?V Nx-J Ing on its hind legs, similar to the Jackson statue, "., I illtt 1 II H fCv4lii."', whereupon its rider slid off hastily and continued . ' L H HIV " v IVy'l' on his way afootI The statue was unveiled on 4 ''' i I 11 Pl '-j!" 7W frfm January 8, 1S53, and Senator Stephen A. Douglas L'?-?5. ' ' ( 1 1) s'ff A " tJt 7TT jT of Illinois was the orator for the occasion. L7 V l (" y l 4fv ,! i I I tVli For all the ridicule that has been heaped upon ll efindrCV t(i ' ' " til & Mf k I'r 'Jk "Jackson and his rocking horse," the statue is a iWiKM j fl i a ll 111 Uf V?M 4 remarkable one In many respects. It is mounted cJgLCfcSOTL F-?5 M tllillsli M ! ' lv "Hr v without pivots, rivets or clamps of any kind. ntrnHon,l If' 1 1 fell t S Among many people there Is an Idea that the tall . 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The first was Unveiling Jackson Statue m StatuaHall , By ELMO SCOTT WATSON , Ht'V P""" 1 ANUAItY 8 is a day for recalling one , - ' Jof the most picturesque figures in ! f- 'f I- American history. Andrew Jackson ' ' ' , ' ujua was his name, but to his countrymen f K v T " i' fV Av i he Is affectionately known as "Old f J " i s JS Hickory." It Is not a date for special f .V4' J 'V -l "' 1 jd 0 I observance because it is the annl f' X j f I 2 I' 1 versary of his birth, as is the case I i f r J g with other great Americans. Rathe Hl " "S D we remember It because It Is the an- !S4 T 1 niversary of a battle which he fought ) fT&tT'$ lu and won on thnt date , si7rTfi The Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815 VX& Is unique in military history. It Is the only major XwiIW: iSVftV engagement on record which was fought after a Sj- treaty of peace between the two nations involved v """,X i ,f 4, ir had been signed. But its significance in American iCLrw'4 history is more than that curious fact. The War rWoTJfl -1 n.rrn iw'nj of 1812 was a conflict fought by a nation divided ftatueXrV i against Itself. It was one In which Americans of "A?a5lindtorv IX C. the time took little pride, at least, so far as the O ' i ing on Its hind legs, similar to the Jackson statue, whereupon its rider slid off hastily and continued on his way afoot I The statue was unveiled on January 8, 1S53, and Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois was the orator for the occasion. For all the ridicule that has been heaped upon 1 "Jackson and his rocking horse," the statue Is a remarkable one in many respects. It Is mounted without pivots, rivets or clamps of any kind. Among many people there Is an Idea that the tall and hind legs of the horse were cast solid to balance bal-ance the rest of the figure. But this Idea is erroneous. The statue Is balanced perfectly on the hind legs of the horse and. despite the fact, It has not shifted a fraction of an Inch in the 75 years that it bas stood on the same spot. From the original model Mills made a replica for New Orleans and it stands today in Jackson square (originally called the Place d' Armes, but changed to honor the savior of the city after the historic battle In 1815) In that city. Another replica stands on the grounds of the statehouse in Nashville, Nash-ville, Tenn. Mills' statue of Jackson brought him fame and he was commissioned to do others. The first was the equestrian statue of Washington which stands in the circle of that name In the National Capital. Another was the statue of "Armed Liberty" which stands on the dome of the Capitol in Washington. If Jackson's life was a disputatious one. it is appropriate also that it should have begun on disputed dis-puted ground and that the dispute over the scene of his birth should continue long after his death. At the time of his birth. March 15, 1707. the boundary line hetween the two provinces of North and South Carolina was not clearly defined. That boundary line ran north and south less than a quarter of a mile from the log cabin In which Andrew Jackson first saw the light of day. But was the cabin east of the boundary line, i. e., in South Carolina, or west of it, hence ln North Carolina? That is a point over which his biographers biog-raphers and other historians have never been able to agree. And so the two states of North Carolina and South Carolina have had a part in another "Jackson "Jack-son controversy" as to which one belongs the honor of being his native state. Apparently South Carolina has had the last word in the controversy, contro-versy, for in November, 1928. there was erected a marker on the James Crawford plantation, 10 miles from Lancaster, S. C, bearing on the front these words, "Birthplace of Andrew Jackson, brave, truculent, noble, able, honest." On the, rear is an Inscription from a letter, said to have been written by Jackson to a Lancaster citizen, which reads "I was born In South Carolina, as I have been told, at the plantation whereon James Crawford lived about crossing of the Wax-haw Wax-haw Creek" and beneath that is this inscription, "This stone stands upon the plantation whereon James Crawford lived near the site of the dwelling dwell-ing house according to the' Mills map of 1820." The year 1926 saw the erection of another memorial me-morial to Andrew Jackson. That was on April 15 when the statue of Jackson was unveiled in Statuary Sta-tuary hall In the Capitol, t was presented to the federal government by the state of Tennessee ln honor of the centennial year of his Inauguration as President and was accepted on behalf of the nation by President Coolidge. The statue, which shows Jackson in the full dress uniform of a major general of the regular army of his time-cocked time-cocked hat, tight-fitting military dress coat and breeches, long cloak and high boots. Is the work of Belle Kinney Scholz. formerly of Nashville, Tenn. On that occasion President Coolidge paid j a tribute to Jackson as one who exemplified the I unlimited opportunities offered to men, regard- I less of seeming handicaps: "He gave to the nationalistic spirit, through loyalty to the Union, a new strength "which was decisive for many years." President Coolid.Te said. "His management of our foreign affairs was such as to secure a wholesome respect for our government and the rights of our citizens. He left the treasury without obligations and with a ! surplus. "Coming up from the people, he demonstrated i that there Is sufficient substance in self govern- ment to solve important public questions and to ! rise superior to a perplexing crisis. Like a true ' pioneer, he broke through all restraints and 1m- j pediments into which he was horn, and leaving j behind the provincialisms and prejudices of his i day, pushed out towards a larger freedom and a I sounder government, carrying the country with j him. : "If at times he was high tempered and over- j bearing there Is no fairer story of chivalrous ! devotion and affectionate consideration than that which he lavished upon his wife." But if one would see the memorial which best exemplifies the tender side of Andrew Jackson, It is onlv necessary to go to Nashville, Tenn., and there visit the Hermitage where he lived the happiest days of his life with his beloved Rachel, where the most crushing blow in his whole career, her death, was dealt him and where at 1 last he died with a miniature of her next to his heart. In that fine old mansion, which has become a patriotic shrine of the sort that Washington's Mount Vernon and Jefferson's Monticello are, preserved as it was in the days when Jackson lived there, one may come nearer understanding Andrew Jackson not Andrew Jackson, the Indian Indi-an fighter or the general or the politician or tbij President, but Andrew Jackson, the man. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ""- ANUAUY 8 Is a day for recalling one Jof the most picturesque figures in American history. Andrew Jackson paajgjuap, was his name, but to his countrymen e he Is affectionately known as "Old Hickory." It Is not a date for special JO tol observance because it is the annl-3 annl-3 I'Jii versary of his birth, as is the case J IL 6 w,th otlier Sreat Americans. Bather fl we remember It because It Is the an-Xjjj an-Xjjj niversary of a battle which he fought and won on that date. The Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815. Is unique ln military history. It Is the only major engagement on record which was fought after a treaty of peace between the two nations involved had been signed. But its significance in American history is more than that curious fact. The War of 1812 was a conflict fought by a nation divided against Itself. It was one In which Americans of the time took little pride, at least, so far as the record of its military forces was concerned. Disaster after disaster and reverse after re-Terse re-Terse had caused the couutry to believe that the breed of successful generals, such as it had known ln the Revolution, was extinct Then Andrew Jackson and his frontiersmen at New Orleans faced the best troops that Great Britain could muster. They were Wellington's veterans who had broken the power of Napoleon. But Jackson gave them odds of two to one and defeated them disastrously. disas-trously. "To a country that had almost completely lost faith in itself, to a country that had almost learned to cringe, this news came like a reprieve to a man upon the gallows," says Gerald W. John-eon John-eon in "Andrew Jackson, An Epic In Homespun." "It was literally crazed with joy, and In its delirium deliri-um it flung the name of Andrew Jackson against the stars. ... If Jackson did not really save New Orleans, he saved something infinitely more Important, namely: the self-respect of the country." coun-try." In view of this, It would seem that January 8 should be one of the red-letter days on the American Amer-ican calendar. The fact that It is not is only further proof that the old saying "A republic forgets" for-gets" is true. For January 8 Is not a general holiday, holi-day, nor even a state holiday. In that respect It cannot take rank with March 2 when Texas recalls re-calls the Battle of San Jacinto and honors the memory of Sam Houston, nor with April 19 when Massachusetts honors the patriots who fought at Concord and Lexington, nor with August 16 when Vermont remembers how old John Stark beat the Hessians at Bennington. The only observance of the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans as a holiday is In New Orleans, which has good reason rea-son to remember the name of Andrew Jackson. In fact the only nation-wide notice of this anniversary anni-versary Is a celebration which has only a meager connection with the battle and even this occurs Intermittently. That Is the Jackson Day dinner, held In Washington by the leaders of the Democratic Demo-cratic party on January 8 and there tribute Is paid more to Andrew Jackson, the President and the founder of "Jacksonian Democracy" than to "Old Hickory" Jackson, the soldier and military victor. Even though America has not chosen to honor the memory of Andrew Jackson by making a holiday holi-day of the date on which he won his great victory vic-tory and started on the path which led eventually to the White House, this does not mean that he Is forgotten or Is ever likely to be. For, as his biographer previously has pointed out, "He Is the hero of the people, not of the Intelligentsia. The people still delight ln the legends of his prowess, of his lurid language, of his imperious and dictatorial dicta-torial temper. The tale of his usurpations does not appall them, but delights them, for Americans have always loved a really masterful man. If Jackson's spiritual heir should appear now, there is every reason to believe America of the Twentieth Twenti-eth century would hail him as rapturously and follow him as blindly as It hailed and followed the iiero of long ago." Another reason why he is not likely to be for-;otten for-;otten lies in the fact that, with the exception of Washington and Lincoln, more monuments and markers have been erected to his memory than any other President Fascinating as Is the story of Jackson's career, a story which Is familiar to most Americans, equally interesting Is the story of some of these memorials. Outstanding among them is the famous "rocking horse" statue in Lafayette La-fayette park, opposite the White House, ln Washington. Wash-ington. Perhaps It is particularly appropriate that this memorial to a man whose life was turbulent tur-bulent from beginning to end should be the subject for frequent controversy and should furnish material mate-rial for an almost endless debate among politicians, politi-cians, sculptors and horsemen. The statue, which has the distinction of being the first equestrian statue in the United States, Is the work of Clark Mills, a New Yorker born in 1815, who drifted to South Carolina where he worked In a plaster and cement mill. While doing stucco work there, he developed a method for taking a cast from a living face and, although he had no art education, he began working in marble. His first effort, a bust of John C. Calhoun, was purchased by the city of Charleston and he was given a gold medal by the commonwealth of South Carolina. Mills next went to Washington to make busts of Webster and Crittenden. On the way he stopped in Richmond and there saw Hou-don's Hou-don's statue of Washington, the first real piece of sculpture he had ever seen. Arriving ju Washington, he found plans were under way for the erection of an equestrian statue of Jackson. Cave Johnson, then postmaster general gen-eral and president of the Jackson monument committee, com-mittee, invited him to submit a design. But Mills, never having seen an equestrian statue, felt obliged to refuse the offer. However, he was prevailed pre-vailed upon to make the attempt and. havinc bought some land near Lnnham, Md., he set up a foundry and a studio and went to work. For nine months he worked patiently on a small model on a new principle that of bringing the hind legs of a horse directly beneath the center of its body, thus producing perfect balance. A race horse, named '"Olympus," was his model for Jackson's charger and he trained this horse to pose for the work. Finally, his design was finished fin-ished and accepted by the commission and Mills set to work to make the bronze statue. Cannon, captured by Jackson at Pensacola, were to be melted down for the statue-of the horse and its rider, and other guns, captured from the British at New Orleans, was to he used for the base. But Just when Mills was ready to begin the melting and recasting, a gale destroyed his studio. Before he could rebuild It, fire destroyed the foundry. Despite these handicaps, to which were added such misfortunes as the breaking of cranes, the bursting of furnaces and six failures in making the body of the horse, Mills persisted until his work was completed. Just before the statue was dedicated Mills, as the head of c company of militia he bad organized, organ-ized, tried to ride "Olympus" at the head of the parade. The horse, perh.ips feeling that occasion was an appropriate one, did some impromptu pos- |