Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — Almost Regretted It. [ARTICLE]

Almost Regretted It.

Gen. Jackson had won the battle of New Orleans. “Just as likely as not,” he reflected, "it will turn out that I’ve committed a monumental blunder. I ought to have let Pakenham have his way, and take the whole Mississippi River. It would have been cheaper. Now, this country will have to improve the blamed old stream itself!” Years afterward, however, he changed his mind and decided that it was best for .the victors to do the spoiling.