Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — Recollections of Old Hickory. [ARTICLE]

Recollections of Old Hickory.

As the daughter of the late Senator Benton, Mrs. Fremont’s opportunities to observe and remember date back as far as the Presidency of Gen. Jackson. When Old Hickory and Old Bullion had their talks at the White House, the President liked to have the Senator from Missouri ’’bring his little daughter Jessie, arid Mr* Fremont speaks of these visits with a sweet, tebder arid delicious simplicity. They were accustomed to find the President in au upper room, “where the tall south windows sent in strong breadths of sunshine, but his big rocking chair was :*>■• ■ • i L

always drawn close to the large wood fire.” As Jackson talked with the child's father, he would keep her by him, his hand on her head. “ Sometimes,” Mite. Fremont writes, “forgett ng me, in the interest of d kengsion, his long, bony fingers took an unconscious grip,” but she had been trained not to wince nor tdiow pa n oven if Oen. Ja kson tw sted her curls a little too v'gorously. This description of the stern old soldier President, seated in a rude, old-fashioned rocking cha r in the White House, w th the child by him, wh le he discussed men and affairs with the Missouri Senator, brief as it is, :s a picture.— Philadelphia Times.