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Hon. Win. Iuihu, Attorney Onnornl.
Hon. T. I.. Norvnl, Associate JtiHtlce.
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Ornoic: Ilea O Htreot, LINCOLN, NKII.
HIS PMOGRESS FROM ODSCltrtlTY
TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
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SON Mill remalliH
the groat horn of
the middle period
of full til Stuton
lilMory- midway
between Washing,
ton and Lincoln,
nnd totally unlike
cither save In hon
iity, llrm attach,
luent to Ills cnun-
try nnd uncomproinlMng devollou to lib
urty. He Is pre eminently the hero of the
common iieople. They now realle his faullH
aM hoy did not for )fiirn after his dent h,
hut they honor htm none the let for his
virtues.
The reputation of an American piesldcut
who accomplishes great things has to pass
through three stages. While he Is lunlllco
or political net Ion Ids enemies assail him
with unrelenting fury, and his friends too
often defend him liy frimtlu eulogy or
weak and nhstiril npologj'. Death Nilenees
the critics mid ciculcs 11 new nnd far mom
cultured class of eulogists, who vie with
each other in piling np rhetorical periods
of praise till the real character Is totally
lost, and the Jackson or Lincoln of popu
Inrsougnud patriotic eulogy is us much a
in) t Ideal character ils Romulus or Lyeur
gus. The third generation comes, swoops
nway both detraction and eulogy, nnd
forms a tolerably just opinion. Wo now
have tills view of Jackson, not yet of Lin
coln. Fifty jean from now Americans
will hold a view of the. hitter which would
lie simply utna.ing to men of this time if
they could foresee It.
Illustrative of this principle Is tho fact
that si. me of the most, extraordinary polntH
In Jackson's composition iilto escaped his
cotemporarlcs, nnd have but lately Ih-cii
made prominent by his biographers. His
parents were Irish, hut not Celtic. For
man) generations they had dwelt near the
famous "Uuck of Fergus," and tho "llluo
l'reshytet Inn" tenacity which Is inherent
In that people showed in every Important
act of Jackson's life. He hail never judg
ing from the evidence at command lead
the life of Cromwell or of any of Ulster's
unyielding contestitntH, yet In every liber
of his being he was one of them. (Unci
L-ncc, even the rudiments, he was amusing
ly Ignorant, and jet of matter within bis
range of observation his judgment was
sclctitillcnllj evict.
He was of southern birth and rearing
ami truly national sympathies. He giew
up iu m rough a school of frontier manners
that his opponents de-crlls'd him as a sav
ago iu clvlli.od clothing, and even his
warmest supporters iu the older states
dreaded the social ordeal for him at Wash
ington; jet the testimony is unanimous
that he excelled In courtesy, was neveralu
loss iu the most cultivated society, and
particularly charmed the ladles of Wash
ington by his suave and courtly bearing.
When the heated campaign of 1SIIJ closed,
no man was more cordially hated Iu New
England than Andrew Jackson. A few
months later, by his llrm action on niilllll
catlou and the claims agulnst foreign pow
ers, he had gained a popularity there
greater than that of Webster a populari
ty scarcely shaken iu his long struggle
with their favorite United States bank.
It adds not a little to our admiration for
Jackson's achievements to learn (and it Is
a fact too often overlooked) that he was
never really a well man. Tho wound iu
his head, Indicted by a British otlicer In
1781, when he was hut 14 years old; the
prison fever and smallpox which fol
lowed, and the unskillful treatment gave
his constitution a shock from which it
never recovered. The smallpox eruption
011 him and his brother Kolicrt was but
started when they had to walk all day In a
colli, drenching rain. In two days Robert
Jackson was a corpse and Andrew a raving
maniac. It (ills one with indignation and
disgust to read the particulars of the
"treatment." There Is a suspicion among
medical men that (ieorgu Washington was
bledtodeath; it Is absolutely certain that
Andrew Jackson was bled and calomeled
to the grave's verge, and only kept nut of
it by an iron will and a Scotch-Irish con
stitution. His physicians completed their work by
instructing him iu tho symptoms, Indicating
blood letting as a remedy mid showing
him how to bleed himself, .Many a time
while In the white House, when he awoke
were often shocked ut Ills meager torm
and furinwod, pallid visage For months
together he would everyday reach his desk
o weak that the mere signing of his name
would throw him into a perspiration. Vet
he lived to 7S, and was tough old Andrew
Jackson to the last
Whoever now examines the ease of
Rachel Donaldson Itohaids and Andrew
Jackson with any rare and candor must
conclude that they cried. Despite a life
time of consistent conduct they mixer
escaped from the consequences of their
error. Capt, Uivvls Milliards was 11 soldier
of a good Virginia family, who lived with
his mother in what was then thought 11
wonderful mansion, Is'lug the llrst stone
hotiso elected in centra Kentucky. Thither
enme aunt her family, the Donaldsons, ami
passed the llrst winter as tenants of Mrs.
Milliards. The daughter Itaehel was at
tractive and gay, ('apt. Robards wan at
tentive; the natural results followed they
were married. Andiew Jackson went to
Kentucky on legal business, and boaided
with the family for a time. After his de
parture Mrs. Robards grew restless, and
when remonstrated with declated her de
termination to go to her mother's In Ten
nessee. There was a period of fruitless
negotiation, and then her uncle took her to
her mother's.
Capt. Milliards grieved over his loss, and
dually went to Tennessee to bring her
home. This was In 171k). There he found
Andiew Jackson living at her mother's,
l'he story that she returned to her hus
band and that. Jackson "eloped" with her
was a "campaign lie." Sutllcelt that early
III UHl Capt. Itobartls began proceed lugs
for n divorce. Kentucky was then but a
county of Virginia, so he had to llrst get an
act passed by the legislature of Virginia
aulhori.lug the Kentucky court to submit,
theeasetoa jury. And right here is where
the eulogists of Jackson have not Usui can
did lie vvasalawjer and a Judge, He
knew that (lie charge of adultery was set
out In tho legislative act and was to Ih
tried, and that then was the I line to protect
Mrs. Milliards' reputation.
lie must have Ik-cii madly Iu love. He
openly assumed the position of defender of
.Mm. Milliards, but being remonstrated
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hock, nneuiln, or general nervous debility.
Tlio larK" provortlon of Ills to which ladles
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(IKS. ANDIIKW JACKSOK.
at night with a feeling of suffocation and
"Muttering In the temples," he drew the
basin near his bed, calmly opened the
veins of his wrist, and, when he "thought
he had bled enough," called for a servant
to aid iu the bandaging. In 18i:i his
physician had just told him he must re
main quiet at least a mouth for his
wounds, received iu a street light, to heal,
when he received the order fort lie Creek
war. Within forty-eight hours ho was iu
the saddle, although, says Dr. May, "we
had to wash him frequently from head to
foot iu solutions of sugar of lead to keep
down inllaiumatlou."
Though over six feet three inches iu
height, lie is said to have weighed when he
won the battle of New Orleans but 111)
pounds. "For thirty years," said lie in ISI5,
"I have never Iks.'ii freiifrmu p.iinoiieenllrii
hour." This dates from the time when his
falsely healed breastbone (shattered by
Dickinson's pistol) reopened, and he bled
almost to death. For eighteen jeers he
was subject to prostrating diarrliieas and
occasional hemorrhage. For both he took
enormous doses of calomel! When the
hcmoirhages ceased for a longer time than
usual lin had that "fullntss in the head
and temples." Then lie bled himself
Strangers calling at the While Hon si
MKs. IIA( lli:i. JACKSON.
with by his friend Col. Overton went to
another place to Isiard, and leased his vis
its to the Widow Donaldson's. Word was
received that Capt Milliards was coming
again, and Mrs, Milliards at once announced
her intent ion of going to Natchez, with one
Col. Stark, who was to run a boat thither.
Then Jackson made his great mistake
he went with them. "The Indians were
threatening," Is the teasoii usually given.
In May he returned. In July, 17111, says
Overton, they heard that Capt. Milliards
had procured a divorce. Then Jackson
went to Natchez, and married Rachel.
Capt. Milliards did not get Ids case before
the jury till the summer term of tint Mer
cer county (Ivy (court iu ITII.'I. The divorce
is 011 record as of Aug. tl, 170.1, about two
years after Jackson's marriage iu Natche..
The rest Is known. The second marriage
of Jackson and Rachel Robards took place
in 17.11, and was at least legal.
Out of this marriage grew the killing of
Dickinson, The story has often been told.
Jackson was always sensitive about his
marriage. A slighting reference to Mrs.
Jackson was, says I'artou, "to Jackson
like the sin against the Holy ('host un
pardonable." Dickinson spoke the word
and was doomed. It U not well to repeat
the shocking details. The street light with
the Iieutous was sanguinary enough, hut
is much relieved by Its ludicrous features
Joel Heutou hated Jackson with f ninth
intensity till the last of his life, but
Thomas II. became his warm admiier and
supporter. While Heutou was In the sen
ate and Jackson In the Wldte House the
hitter had the former's pistol bullet cut
out of his arm, where it had lain so many
years, and the Whig wits suggested that
he have It set and present it to Senator
Denton us a souvenir.
Rachel Jackson faded young. Her in
dignant husband declared thai the Whig
slanderers were murdering her, and hated
them more llercely than ever. She was
very domestic in her tastes, and Jackson
vviih devoted to her to the last No tongue
can tell what she sulTcrcd iu the villainous
campaign of 1KX. Iu these days we war
not on woman. In the "good old times,'
which some folks lguorautly praise, 110
lsuly was spared, She passed hours at a
time iu alternate tears and prayers during
the absence of her husband. On the lTtn
of DccciuIht she fell with a horrible shriek
iu the convulsions of "breast pang." After
sixty hon rs'of such agouj aslsrareljen
dur-d she sank into exhaustion, dj lug on
the 'U.
Andrew Jackson was never the same
man again. He resolutely reformed his
language, and except on a few rare occa
sinus never Used an oath. Her remains He
lcl hi Ids In that tomb which he designed
at the Hermitage. His career as president
was no doubt made more bitter by lemem
bruueo of what she had siilfered, and aftei
his retirement, when he united with the
I'resbyterian church, Ids supreme idea of
heaven was that he would certainly "llnd
Rachel there."
It Is 11 curious fact that some of the act
for which President Jackson was most
vehemently attacked are now approved by
economists of all schools. Ills instinctive
dread of paper money, as it thei was, was
sclent illcully correct, though he -enl about
his reform iu a somewhat headlong way.
The Independent treasury Is mev so much
a matter of course that few peo.de tealUo
the old situation -when the government
depended on a hank for its fiscal trails
actions. Hut Andrew Jackson's greatest
achievement was the making of popular
suffrage iu the United States a living,
practical fact. He broke t lie record. He
overturned the "Virginia dj nasty," and
swept away the rule of "easy succession."
In short he vvasdistlnctlvely audeniphatlc
ally fho People's President.
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