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Title: Andrew Jackson

Author: William Garrott Brown

Release Date: January 25, 2010 [EBook #31068]

Language: English

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The Riverside Biographical Series

NUMBER 1.

ANDREW JACKSON

BY

WILLIAM GARROTT BROWN

[Illustration: Andrew Jackson]

ANDREW JACKSON

BY

WILLIAM GARROTT BROWN

[Illustration]

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
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Chicago: 378-388 Wabash Avenue
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY WILLIAM GARROTT BROWN

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. THE WAXHAWS AND THE WILDERNESS 1

II. CONGRESS: THE BENCH: THE MILITIA 24

III. TOHOPEKA AND PENSACOLA 46

IV. NEW ORLEANS 69

V. THE SEMINOLES AND THE POLITICIANS 87

VI. THE WHITE HOUSE 118

ANDREW JACKSON

I

THE WAXHAWS AND THE WILDERNESS

In Lafayette Square, which fronts the White House at Washington, there
is an equestrian statue of a very thin, long-headed old man whose most
striking physical characteristics are the firm chin and lips and the
bristling, upright hair. The piece is not a great work of art, but it
gives one a strong impression of determination, if not of pugnacity.
Sculptors have not the means to represent the human eye, else this
impression might have been made stronger; for the old gentleman whose
warlike aspect is here reproduced had a glance like a hawk's. He had,
moreover, a habit of gazing fixedly at any one who attracted his
attention. When he was angry, as he was quite frequently, few men could
meet his look with composure. When he w