Show FIVE MINUTE CHATS ABOUT OUR presidents by JAMES MORGAN ij 0 AN immigrants SON 1767 march IE 15 andrew jack son eon born to in union county N C 1781 taken prisoner by the british 1791 married mrs rachel don aadson robards 1806 killed charles dickinson in a duel 1816 1815 january 8 won the battle battie of new orleans 1817 18 put down the seminole indians indian in florida 1821 governor of the territory of florida 0 JACKSON the unlettered ANDREW alered backwoodsman treading at the h heels eels of john quincy adams the most cultured in all the line presents the sharpest contrast to be seen in the procession of presidents the first president born in a log cabin jackson could not claim as his own even that lowly dwelling in tile the north carolina forest but entered the world homeless and fatherless sprung from poor irish immigrants his parents had been in the country only two years tears when the father sank into an unmarked grave a few days before andrews birth leaving his bis family without a root roof or an acre no other among american leaders received from the war of independence such a legacy of bitter memories as it al X pmj I 1 andrew jackson bequeathed to jackson that savage struggled struggle between whig and tory swept away his brave mother and both of his brothers scattered his kindred and left him at fifteen alone in the world A ragged roving wait waif of the revolution he grew up as wild as a weed eed with no hand above lilt him a his high spirits led him into the temptations of his primitive world whose social standards were years behind the times drinking and carousing gambling cock fighting and horse racing young jackson never took a dare A bully among rowdies he went his roy way along a road that Is not to be laid down on the map of conduct as a course to the white house As he rose from a chore boy and a saddlers apprentice to ue a lawyer and a judge of the supreme court of tennessee he cast aside the dissipations of his careless youth but he never lost the spirit of the clansman A bare catalog of his quarrels and fights Is too long to be given here in most of them he was fired with the conviction that he was defending the name of his wife this had been brought into question only by disown his own characteristic imprudence when he fell in love lave with his land ladys daughter while she was yet married to another and when vilen he be rashly wed her without waiting to verify the mere rumor that her offended husband had obtained a divorce in a neighboring state after two years of wedded life the too hasty couple learned that the homans womans first marriage had bad only just been dissolved and they had to make a spectacle of themselves as they went through another ceremony in order to be united in lawful bonds because his own conduct had bad exposed his ao acuest liest devoted wife ife to the slanderous tongues of the gossips jackson was all the more sensitive to her sufferings for sneering at her over a bar one man was stood up at 24 paces and shot to death by the avenging bus husband band who kept hn hl pistols in perfect condition through 37 years as barton says for anyone laho dared breathe her name except on 0 o honor even at the ober age of 0 forty six jackson plunged into a favl tavern rn brawl tit at nashville with thomas thoimas ai n benton afterward the distinguished senator from missouri aal and was shattered tor for life by two balls and a slug which bestons Kec BeD tons brother shot luto into his back that was his last personal alter celon in a f few pw weeks he was called from hla his tied bed of pain to take part in a public altercation ter cation between the united and great britain and with his arm still in a jiing be rose to do battle for no bu country 1 SLAYING DRAGONS p 0 0 1828 andrew jackson elected president 1829 inaugurated seventh president aged 61 1832 vetoed bank bill suppressing nullifications reelect re elect ed triumphantly 1833 removed the bank deposits brought france to terms 1837 jackson retired retire J 1845 june 8 death of jackson aged 78 0 0 S administration stands J JACKSONS forth in the half century between jeffer jefferson son and lincoln because of two measures one of these was the overthrow of the united states bank that great institution patterned after the bank of england and the bank of france was an efficient but dangerous partner for a democratic government it was a money monopoly which could make or break any enterprise in the country it held in its grasp the financial life of america it received and distributed all the revenues of the nation and halt half of its deposits were public moneys but bet with only a fifth of its directors appointed by the government it was not under public control when jackson began his nuda audacious clous light 1 at upon the bank it was at the height of its power against heavy odds he vetoed the bill for it took ills his case to the people in ills campaign for election reelection re and scored a complete victory on the strength of that popular verdict he removed the government dep deposits aind I 1 ft the bank to a slow and I 1 ignominious no minious collapse for this action the senate censured him after a bitter fight in which jacksons Jach sons onetime one time antagonist thomas H benton now a senator from missouri sou rl was his champion the resolution was expunged by drawing about it in the records a heavy black line jackson was equally bold and v victorious to in meeting the threat of nullification 1 fi although it came from his own section from his own party and from his own vice president john C calhoun shortly before his ration congress passed the first tariff that was framed for the benefit of the new manufacturing industries which were springing up in new kew england this bestowal of a special privilege aroused the jealousy of the agricultural south at a democratic banquet in washington in 1930 president jackson rose and proposed this toast for federal union it must be preserved then vice president calhoun got up tip and toasted the rights of the states thus tile the two highest officials of the government joined issue across that dinner table on a question which great armies would fight out in another generation two years afterward a convention la in south carolina solemnly adopted an ordinance nullifying the tariff act for that state and forbidding within the boundaries of the state the collection of customs duties under it ft while recommending to congress a modification of the offending tariff jackson appealed to the patriotism of the south Caroll nans in a proclamation which set all the north and much of the south ringing with nith cheers or dereid general scott to the scene of A r 00 5 A it p gi jol U 1 I 1 I 1 RE andrew jackson in old age threatened trouble re enforced the forts of the dissatisfied state dispatched d Is a naval fleet bicet to charleston harbor and 1 united acted for the first overt act of revolt to gle ghe him warrant for arresting calhoun and the other leaders jacksons preeminent pre eminent service to the country was rendered lp in his hattle with nullification the elie tariff was only the pretext lie said disunion and a southern cn c it ohp ra r 1 object the next pretext hlll III lie be the negro thanks to liim him that irre presa lole conflict had been postponed 25 years until a great west should grow up and join hands the tha east in saving the union copyright 1820 2920 by hamem corfu |