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LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON, LATE PRESIDENT OF 

 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



OF the many extraordinary men who have arisen within the last three 

 quarters of a century in the western hemisphere, probably not one 

 has arisen to so great a celebrity amongst foreign nations as the pre- 

 sent citizen and soldier who has just retired from the office of Presi- 

 dent of the United States. 



The history of such a man is the property of the world. Inter- 

 national prejudices are now so rapidly passing to oblivion, and so 

 complete is the reconciliation between the elder and the junior 

 branches of the family of England, that the enthusiastic respect enter- 

 tained for this illustrious man is probably not less upon the eastern 

 than on the western side of the Atlantic. 



With these most cordial acknowledgments we proceed to examine 

 the life of General Jackson, which has recently been published by 

 Mr. Cobbett, being a compilation and mutilation from the work of 

 Mr. Eaton, the brother-in-law and companion in arms of General 

 Jackson. To serve the purpose of bolstering up his own ridiculous 

 opinions upon the subject of paper-money, Mr. Cobbett has inter- 

 polated and engrafted a mass of absurdity and vulgarity upon the 

 fair and gentlemanly work of Mr. Eaton, and this melange he [has 

 dedicated, under pretence that General Jackson was an Irishman, 

 to the people whose religious prejudices rendered them the pur- 

 chasers of some hundreds of thousands of copies of his " History of 

 the Protestant Reformation." We purpose, however, to separate 

 the chaff from the wheat, and accordingly, passing over the preface 

 of Mr. Cobbett and the dedication to his customers in Ireland, we 

 come to the narrative of Mr. Eaton, which commences as follows: 



" Andrew Jackson was born on the 15th day of March, 1767. His 

 father (Andrew), the youngest son of his family, emigrated to 

 America from Ireland during the year 1765, bringing with him two 

 sons, Hugh and Robert, both very young. Landing at Charleston, 

 in South Carolina, he shortly afterwards purchased a tract of land, in 

 what was then called the Waxsaw settlement, about forty-five miles 

 above Camden, at which place the subject of this history was born. 

 Shortly after his birth his father died, leaving three sons to be pro- 

 vided for by their mother. She appears to have been an exemplary 

 woman, and to have executed the arduous duties which had devolved 

 on her with sjreat faithfulness and with much success. To the lessons 

 she inculcated on the youthful minds of her sons, was, no doubt, 

 owing, in a great measure, that fixed opposition to British tyranny 

 and oppression which afterwards so much distinguished them. Often 

 would she spend the winter's evenings in recounting to them the 

 sufferings of their grandfather at the siege of Carrickfergus, and the 

 oppressions exercised by the nobility of Ireland over the labouring 

 poor, impressing it upon them, as a first duty, to expend their lives, 



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