Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1883 — Pulling President Jackson’s Nose. [ARTICLE]

Pulling President Jackson’s Nose.

In the days of “Old Hickory,” the veritable, energetic, irascible Andrew Jackson, it will be recollected there occurred several events of thrilling interest. The old hero’s career in the War of 1812 with Great Britain was marked with events which will long bremembered. His sturdy defense of New Orleans, the grand and successful battle before that city, were eminently suggestive of the terrible energy involved in Jackson’s composition and marked him as one of the foremost men of the then young nation. The people did not forget him, and ere many years elapsed he was called to fill the great office of President of the United States. What he did in That position is so imprinted on ths' historic pages of the country as neyer to be forgotten. They have come aown the years in trumpet tones and J are yet reverberating in the list of celebrities of the land. Andrew Jackson’s civil battle with the United States bank, his stem, unyielding and successful grapple with the secession serpent in the person of John C. Calhoun, and other noted displays of his indomitable will are proud incidents of his history and veritable laurels of his administration. Every true patriot loves to recall them to his mind and record his approval of their value and importance. Of the many incidents occurring duifi ing the life of “Old Hickory” was one which eminently brought out some of the main points of his’character. When filling, we believe, his second term as President, his Secretary of the Navy, on the completion of one of our war frigates, planned an excursion down the Potomac and to some of the Atlantic cities. To this excursion the Secretary invited the President and "his Cabinet. It*proved a pleasant one. While lying at anchor, we believe, at Philadelphia, the people w@re permitted to board the vessel and examine its various points. Among other visitors was one Lieut. Robert A. Randolph, who had been an officer of the United States navy, but had violated some important order and had been dismissed from his office. Gen. Jackson, as President, had signed and approved of the report of the naval court in the case of Randolph. He [Randolph] being of a determined, fearless nature, vowed revenge on the President when opportunity offered. Making his way into the vessel where the President was receiving calls, he impudently improved his opportunity by violently pulling the nose of the aged President. Before, however, Randolph could be secured he escaped to the shore and 'disappeared. At the time of its occurrence, the bold nature of the act of course made quite a stir in the public mind, and without doubt it is yet remembered by many of the present generation. — Excliang e.