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!Kg. | piclures from ‘‘ANDREW JACKSON—An Homexpun.” by Gerald W. Johnson, courBalch and Company. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE announcement of the purpose of the Democratic party this year to revive the annual Jackson day dinner after a lapse of some seven years has, whatever its political significance may <be. more than passing interest for all Americans. For it recalls once more an American hero of long ago whose name has ociateu not only with certain political it in a broader sense with something 1 in the government of this Republic, ind fame ar. also recalled in a book, ackson—An Epic in Home.pun,” by Johnson, recently published by Minton, iompany of New York, which reviewers ig among the outstanding biographies v day is JanuaiT 8, the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans. Not only is this en'gagement unique in history, in that it was fought after peace had been declared between the two nations concerned in it, fc but it is important in/i American history for at least two reasons. them, as set forth by the new Jackson biographer, declares that-in'winning this battle “Old Hicljory” “saved the self-respect of the country.”/ He elaborates on that theme as follows: After three years ofc calamity and disgrace, here at last was victory wrth honor. An American force had met a larger British force and had b“aten it fairly afid squarely. Every nation has some bad generals, lose it an army or a campaign, now and then.' But as the War of 1812 dragged to its dismal end, Americans were apparently fa’< ed with the intensely humiliating necessity of having to admit that their generals were all bad Harrison, indeed, could beat a horde of naked sav-■ ages, and even a mixed -force of British and Indians; but he was the best we had to offer on January 7. 1815. It was not proved that there lived a single American officer who could stand up against a British regular officer commanding regular troops. But January 8 proved that one man could stand 'tip. Andrew Jackson craved no faVers. Andrew Jackson could face the troops that broke Napoleon—more, he could give them odds of two to one and beat them. ’ V ’ . To a country that had almost completely lost faith in itself, to a country that had almost learned to cringe, this news came like a reprieve ■to a man upon the gallows. It was literally crazed with joy, and In its delirium it flung the name of Andrew Jackson against the stars. More than that, this same country did not forget its hero a few years later when a President was to be elected and so the second reason for the importance of the Battle of New Orleans Is that It put Andrew Jackson in the White House. The significance of that Is summed up in a recent editorial in the New York World as follows: * Andrew Jackson was a victorious geneial and a man of honor, but his chief contributions to his country rest on neither of these fact. He will be remembered partly because one of his first presidential acts was to free the country from the tyranny of bureaucracy and to establish democracy. When he entered the White House, he found the government dominated by a bureaucracy of constantly increasing numbers and expanding powers. It was his task to set things right Being a soldier and hard-boiled, he showed succeed- , ing generations of Americans the only method of doing sa.. He fired job holders. He may have been harsh and merciless, but he satisfied a great need. When he was through, the country was restored to its original plan, and the all-powerful bureaucra y was an nnplffr’nt memory But *lf It is difficult for us to realize the heights to which the hero worship of Jackson Tost a century ago. »or even if we are not especially impressed by Jackson's' connection with the origin of certain political traditions in this country, we, cannot fail to be interested in the story of his

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career. For an amazing career was that of this hero or what the new biographer happily calls “an epic in homespun.” Both North Carolina and South Carolina claim him as their own. since the rude log cabin in which -he was born stood near the line between tin two colonies and there has long been a dispute as to whether it stood on the North or South Carolina side of 'that • boundary. This dispute was revived only last November when news dispatches carried the story about the finding in an old trunk in an attic in Craddock. Ya., of a letter, signed by Jackson in 1820, f in which he declared defini ely that he was born in South Carolina. Tennessee, too, her own, since it was she who sent him forth to the wars in which he won glory, who ‘gave him to , the nation as its President and who, today preserves his home, the Hermitage near Nashville, as her dearest shrine. Louisiana also has a claim on him and the celebration of his greatest triumph on its anniversary,, which is a legal holiday in that state, is one of her most-cherished traditions. But because Andrew Jackson was what he was and did what he did he belongs to all Americans, and for that reason January 8 is more than a date to be observed by one state or by one political party. It should,be a red letter date bn the calendars of all citizens of the United States. Familiar as are most of us with the school book facts of Jackson’s career, there is yet much for us to learn about Jackson, the man, in the light, of new interpretations of his career. In the first chapter of Johnson’s biography, which tells “How Mr. Jackson. Contrary to AH Known Rules. Persists in Living.” such an interpretation is offered in these words: The man is a popular hero in the strictest sense of the word. He is the hero of the people, not of the intelligentsia. The people still delight in the legends of his prowess, of his lurid language, of his Imperious and dictatorial temper. The tale of his usurpations does not appal them, but delights them, for Americans have always ibved a really masterful man. If Jackson’s spiritual heir should appear now. there is every reason to believe America of the Twentieth century would hail him as rapturously and follow blip as blindly as it hailed and followed the hero of a hundred years ago. Therefore, he repiainS a significant figure. His faults stand out with startling vividness. His errors are plain to the purblind. His weaknesses are obvious,-his follies patent, his egregiousness inescapable, But the man will not colfajtse. His fame is still dear to the hearts of the people, therefore, the prudent man will search diligently for some residuum after the faults, errors and follies have been taken into account. For if another appears with such qualities, even handicaps as gigantic as those under which Jackson labored can not prevent his sweep to power. And the wise men of that day will be those who recognize him early and align themselves w'th him. not against him. It is this that gives him a severely practical significance in the century that has succeeded his own. But to the impractical idealist, to the dilettante, to the curious seeker after the bizarre, the quaint, the colorful, Jackson makes as powerful an appeal as to the student of public affairs. For he was above all else vivid. He was a great actor and on the national scene he staged the most gorgeous, colorful" and romantic show in American history. . . When he first came to Washington certain senators were" informed by alarmed friends that he had sworn to cut off their ears He left the city pensively regretting his failure to either shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun. Yet during his tenure of power he committed neither homicide nor may'htm. Americans have never known how to resist a man who could talk like a pirate and act like a Presbyterian ana jacKson could do both to a perfection not approached by any of his successors until the days of Theodore Roosevelt. And he had one great advantage!*over Roosevelt, namely, a record. Before he came to the Presidency Jackson had both hanged and shot men. and

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all the while he was in the White House it was thrillingly uncertain when he might carry out some of his threats literally. He was a canny man, and it is possible that there never was a moment when he actually would have hanged Calhoun; but there were several moments when the country believed that if the President could but lay hands on the vice president, the latter’s days would be numbered. , . Yet the rejoicing galleries had more serious, if perhaps no better, reasons for their plaudits than simply the entertainment purveyed to them by Andrew Jackson He did throw down the h»rs that hedged them from effective participation in the conduct of their own government. He did destroy a sinister alliance between politics and finance »he* was swiftly reducing them to economic serfdom He did shatter the NulPfication movement thereby postponing for twenty years the day when half a million of them had to die for the preservation of the Union. All these works were impermanent. no doubt, but they were effective for the time and the place. He richly earned the loyalty that common men gave him. Jackson, as a small boy, comes reeling Into American historv with a sabre cut on his head and as the years father upon him they gleam v-ith steel and blood. It was a roaring career, resounding to the roars of cheering multitudes of musk-try of artillery. It was a theatrical career in the style of Gallic romance, astonishingly the carter that Rostand imagined for Cyrano de. Bergerac. . . He was a great duelist a great soldier and a great lover. He was fiery, quixotic, honest and loyal. He was curiously romantic and incessantly dramatized himself and his surroundings, often to the exquisite embarrassment of more prosaic men. So we see Andrew Jackson, in the perspective of a hundred years, cutting and slashing his way to power, a raucous fellow- an explosive, heavyhanded fellow, but -withal a man who had a code and lived up to it. He hated and loved and swore with a magnificence beyond, all American experience. But he did not cringe, he did not fawn, he did. not carry water on both shoulders. When he lost —and he lost heavily and frequently—he paid without whimpering. He loved a woman and lost her, and of all his innumerable wounds that hurt worst and longest. 3 Against admiration, respect and pity one must pile up mountains of crime if they are to inspire no affection. Affection for Andrew Jackson is impossible to avoid if one knows his story; for let his enemies sav what they will, here was one American who carried himself with a-t air. unlettered. uncouth, unskilled in the graces of polite / society, but none the less a chevalier He is almost the only man who has figured :n American public life of whom it is imaginaole that ne might have quit the earthly stage wish the thea-frical grace of Cyrano’s closing lines: "When I enter God’s house my salutation shall sweep the blue threshold with something free from creases, free from stains, which I shall carry in spite of all of you—my plume!” Although this biographer writes of events and personages of a hundred years ago. in the light of present political and eeonomk ‘conditions in the nation, the career of Andrew Jackson, as he suggests, has a “severely practical significance” today. If we believe that history repeats itself and that great events occur in cycles, as some believe they do. then it may be no f idle prophecy that “if Jackson’s spiritual heir should appear now. there is every reason to believe America of the Twentieth century would hail him as rapturously and follow him as blindly as It hailed and followed the hero of a hundred years ago.” Is there somewhere in the United States, still in obscurity perhaps—but no greater obscurity than that which once veiled Andrew Jackson—a “hero of the people, not of the intelligentsia.” whom the United States will send to the White House because “Americans have always loved a really masterful man”? Who knows but that the United States in this year 1028 is on the eve of as great a change as it was in 1828 when the frontier democracy put one of its own kind in the White House and that another type of democracy may arise to give us a new conception of a government for the people by the people and of the people.

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