AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY SEVENTY YEARS AGO 313 



venture to disregard. The recollection of it had much 

 to do with setting men's faces in the right direction in 

 the early days of 1861 ; and those who lived through 

 that doubting, anxious time will remember how people's 

 thoughts went back to the grim, gaunt figure, long 

 since at peace in the grave, and from many and many 

 a mouth was heard the prayer, O for one hour of 

 Andrew Jackson ! 



