President Jackson's Reminiscences 245 



Mr. Van Buren obeyed orders promptly, as the timer 

 had done a moment before. 



This was one of the anecdotes current among the stump- 

 speakers of Tennessee in the Presidential canvass of 1836, 

 between Mr. Van Buren and Judge White, to illustrate 

 Gen. Jackson's fatherly protection of Mr. Van Buren. 



Lady Nashville and Bolivia were next brought out, 

 and demeaned themselves in a most becoming manner. 

 The trials were highly satisfactory and greatly pleased 

 the General, whose filly, Bolivia, a descendant of his 

 favorite horse, Truxton, was to run in an important sweep- 

 stake at the coming meeting at Washington. He left 

 the course in the finest humor, and on his way to the 

 White House he gave us, in a torrent-like manner, his 

 early turf experience in Tennessee. 



He was the most fluent, impressive and eloquent con- 

 versationalist I ever met, and in any company took the 

 lead in conversation. Nobody ever seemed disposed to 

 talk where he was. On this occasion I found him especially 

 interesting going back to the race of Truxton and 

 Greyhound at Hartsville, in 1805, and coming up to the 

 great match between his horse Doublehead and Col. 

 Newton Cannon's Expectation, which was run about 181 1 

 over the Clover Bottom Course, 4-mile heats, for $5,000 

 a side, Doublehead being the winner. 1 



1 NOTE BY J. D. A. In his racing contests Jackson seems to 

 have been more successful in defeating his enemies than his friends. 

 Newton Cannon was a member of the jury that acquitted Magness 

 (or Magnus) indicted on the charge of murdering William Patton 

 Anderson in Franklin in 1810. Whereupon Jackson, who had taken 

 an active interest in behalf of the prosecution and had testified for 

 Anderson, informed Cannon that he was a "marked man." In the 

 race referred to by Peyton, Cannon lost all his hard-earned savings 

 and had to begin life anew. In spite of Jackson's "marking" and life- 

 long opposition Cannon achieved distinction as one of the strong men 

 of his time. He served several terms in Congress and was Governor. 



