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MOOEE’S EUEAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGEICULTU UAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL 
GEN. WASHINGTON. 
In looking over the New Aunual Register for 
1780, published in London, we find an excellent 
“ Sketch of the Life and Character of Gen. 
Washington.” The following extract is truthful 
and interesting: 
“General Washington having never been in 
Europe, could not possibly have seen much mili¬ 
tary service when the armies of Britain were sent 
to subdue the colonies; yet still, for a variety of 
reasons, he was by much the most proper man on 
the continent of America, and probably any where 
else, to be placed at the head of an American ar¬ 
my. The very high estimation he stood in for 
integrity and honor, his engaging in the cause of 
his country from sentiment and a conviction of her 
wrongs, his moderation in politics, his extensive 
property, and his approved abilities as acommand- 
er, were motives which necessarily obliged the 
choice of America to fall upon him. That nature 
had given him extraordinary military talents will 
hardly be controverted by his most bitter enemies; 
and having been early actuated with a warm pas¬ 
sion to serve his country in the military line, he 
has greatly improved them by unwearied industry 
and a close application to the best writers upon 
tactics, and by a more than common method and 
exactness; and, in reality, when it come3 to be 
considered that at first he only headed a body of 
men entirely unacquainted with military discipline 
or operations, somewhat ungovernablo in temper, 
and who at best could only be styled an alert and 
good militia, acting under very short enlistments, 
PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES OF THE PRESIDENTS.— NO. 7. 
ANDREW JACKSON. 
The Jackson family were of Scottish origin, and a portion of them emigrated to Ireland in the 
reign of Henry Vllth, whence the parents of our subject removed in 1765 to Waxhaw Settlement in 
South Carolina. Here Andrew Jackson was born on the 15th of March, 1767, his father dy¬ 
ing a few months afterward. The war of the Revolution commenced when he was nine years 
old, fixing the natural turn of his mind for a military life, which he commenced in his fourteenth 
year, IIis brother died, and also his mother about 1783. 
Left thus, alone in the world, in his 18th year, Andrew commenced the study of law, and in two 
yearn was licensed. Shortly afterward, he was appointed Solicitor of what is now the State of 
Tennessee and in 1788 removed there. Settled at Jonesborough, ho performed several journeys to 
the infant settlements on the Cumberland river, to repel the attacks of the Indians, going on several 
regular expeditions against them. By his gallantry on these occasions he made himself greatly 
feared by the Indians, and at the same time became very popular with the settlers. In 1791 he 
married Mrs. Rachel Robards, an amiable woman who had been previously divorced from her 
husband. 
In 1795 he was chosen a delegate to the Convention for forming a State Constitution. The 
new State of Tennessee was admitted in the Union in 1796, and Mr. Jackson was elected its 
first representative in Congress. The next March he was elected by the Legislature of Tennessee to 
the United States Senate, where he remained a year, and then resigned. Whilo in Congress he 
acted uniformly with the Democratic party. Soon after his resignation as United States Senator, Mr. 
Jackson was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of the State which office he filled till 1804, 
when he resigned and retired to private life. In 1812, upon the breaking out of the war with Great 
Britain, Jackson, at the head of the local Militia of Tennessee, achieved several brilliant victories 
over the Indians, and in 1814, was appointed a major-general in the United States Army. 
But the most glorious of his battles was that of New Orleans—too well known almost, to need re¬ 
capitulation. Suffice it to say, that with an army of six thousand men, intrenched behind cotton 
bales, he defended the city against twelve thousand, losing only thirteen of his men—while General 
Packenham was slain, with twenty-five hundred of his army. In the Florida campaign of 1818, 
he was also engaged as the commanding officer. But we have no room for details. 
In 1821, savs the Phrenological Journal, from which we derive the facts of our sketch, he was 
appointed Governor of Florida, but resigned in 1822, to receive the nomination of the Democratic 
party for President. The next year he was sent to the United States Senate. The Presidential 
canvass having terminated in the election of Jonh Quincy Adams by the House of Representatives, 
the opposition concentrated upon General Jackson, and in 1828 he was elected by a larrge majority. 
In 1832 he was again elected, and at the close of his second term retired to his beautiful seat, “ the 
Hermitage,” on the Cumberland river, where he died on the 8th of June, 1845. The political 
events of his administration are still too fresh in public remembrance for us to dwell upon them, 
or even to allude to them in detail. Suffice it to sav, that if they have been bitterlv denounced. 
GEORGE WASHINGTON. 
“First in War, —First in Peace, — First in the Hearts of his Countrymen.” 
To all who venerate the great and good, it will seem most proper that, on the Anniversary of 
American Independence, mention should first be made of him who was,-emphatically, “First in 
War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of his Countrymen.” At such a time, it is a sacred 
vet pleasant duty for Americans to revert to the history of the early days of the Republic to cele¬ 
brate, in an appropriate manner, tlie Glorious Events which gave birth to our now prosperous and 
The occasion is one which will naturally arouse the love of Country, and 
quicken the pulse in every patriotic heart¬ 
ing for the priv 
On such an occasion, next to a proper v 
idely extended Nation. 
•inducing emotions of joy, cong 
-ileges vouchsafed to the people of this highly favored land. 
■eneration for Him 
he held in sacred remembrance the memory and deeds of the man who combined the best traits of 
the Hero, the Statesman and the Christian—who is, and will be for all time, the Patron Saint of 
America—the immortal Washington. To recount, here, the history of one whose exemplary life 
and noble deeds are familiar to almost every reader, would perhaps be a work of supererogation. 
And yet, did space permit, we would gladly trace the career of him of whom, it has been well said, 
“ God ordained he should be childless, that the Country might call him Father.” Indeed we hold it 
to he the duty of the Journalist to omit no proper occasion, like the present, of commemorating this 
illustrious man—of recapitulating the events of the “times that tried men’s souls,” and enjoining 
enth year of his age; he is a tall, well-made man, 
rather large boned, and has a tolerably genteel 
address. His features are manly and bold, his 
eyes of a blueish cast and very lively; his hair a 
deep brown; his face rather long and marked with 
the small-pox; his complexion sunburnt and with¬ 
out much color, and his countenance sensible, 
composed, and thoughtful. There is a remarka¬ 
ble air of dignity about him. with a striking de¬ 
gree of gracefulness, lie has aij excellent under¬ 
standing wiLliout much quickness; is strictly just, 
vigilant, and generous; an affectionate husband, a 
faithful friend, a father to the deserving soldier; 
gentle in his manners, in temper rather reserved; 
a total stranger to religious prejudices, which have 
so often excited Christians of one denomination to 
cut the throats of another; in his morals irre¬ 
proachable; he was never known to exceed the 
bounds of the most rigid temperance: in a word, 
all his friends and acquaintance universally allow 
that no man ever united in his own person a more 
perfect alliance of the virtues of a Philosopher, 
with the talents of a General. Candor, sincerity, 
affability, and simplicity, seem to be the striking 
features of his character, till an occasion offers of 
displaying the most determined bravery and inde¬ 
pendence of spirit.” 
who governs and controls all, should 
ig generation. 
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, January 17th, 1706, and the son of Puritan parents.— 
is father followed the business of tallow chandler, and Benjamin learned the trade of a printer; 
whore he commenced a newspaper which soon became one 
He held the offices of Government Printer, and City Post- 
iupport, and leisure for philosophical pursuits, and 
Subsequently, he held the office of Postmaster General. He 
England, for five years from 1757, and for ten years to 1775, 
lie was one of the committee 
and of the immortal band of its Signers. 
finally settling himself in Philadelph 
of the most popular in the Colonies 
master—the income arising from which, gave him 
the advancement of the public good, 
was resident agent of the Colony, ii 
when be returned and was elected to the first Continental Congresi 
which drafted the Declaration of Independci 
Franklin was President of the Convention forming the State Government of Pennsylvania— 
negotiated the Treaty of Alliance with France, signed 1783, by which our Independence was first 
acknowledged by a foreign power —returned to the United States in 1785, when eighty years of age 
_was soon elected Governor of his adopted State, and was also a member of the Convention which 
formed the present Federal Constitution. In 1790 he died, in the 84th year of his age, and not only 
GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT. 
Win yield Scott is a native of Virginia, born 
near Petersburg, June 13th, 1786. Of his early 
life the accounts are few and meagre. He stud¬ 
ied law at William and Mary College—but com¬ 
menced a military career on the reception of the 
news of the battle of the Chesapeake, in 1807.— 
In 1808 he was commissioned a captain of light 
artillery, and has remained in the army ever since 
—rising from one grade to another until he has 
reached the highest—that of commander-in-chief 
of the United States Army. 
Among the early battles in which he particular¬ 
ly distinguished himself was that on the plains of 
Chippewa, in which with nineteen hundred men, 
he encountered, routed, and pursued a superior 
force of some of the best regiments of the British 
service. He wasat this time a Brigadier-General 
The battle of Lundy’s Lane—within sight of the 
Cataract of Niagara—three weeks after, was still 
more decisive of the courage and discipline of the 
Amt-ricans, and the superior generalship of then- 
commander. 
The Mexican war is so recent, and the part which 
Winfield Scott had therein, so well known, 
that we need not hero particularize his achieve¬ 
ments, or recount his busy life from the close of the 
last war until that poriod. “ Beginning ” says one 
of his biographers, “ his military course at Chip¬ 
pewa, he attained during the late war a renown 
for bravery, skill, and generalship, as flattering as 
it was singular; and his recent unparalleled cam¬ 
paign in Mexico has confirmed all former opinion 
of his merits, proven his efficiency in planning 
and executing a series of protracted operations, 
and placed him before the world as one of the 
ablest Generals of the age.” 
Few men, says Hunt, lurmsli a Happier subject lor me mograpner man mis great rnuosopner 
and Statesman. It is not merely that the history of Benjamin Franklin is intimately interwoven 
with that of one of the mightiest political movements which the world has ever witnessed, and 
that it was in part by his hands, that the foundations were laid of a powerful and flouiishing Republic; 
if this were all, his life, to the generality of readers would be rather a tale of wonder than a lesson. 
But the achiever of such high political results, was not more remarkable or interesting as a public 
character than as a private individual; and in the latter capacity the record of his progress from boy¬ 
hood to old age, is full of instruction for all. 
But in our limited space we have no room for even the briefest details of his eventful life. Nor 
need wo repeat them, for no American is unacquainted with his name and fame. 
“ The thunders of a mighty age. 
May drown the voices of the past. 
But thou, the Printer and the Sage 
Shall speak thy wisdom to the last.” 
The War of the American Revolution 
taught monarchs and statesmen a great, moral 
lesson, universal in its application, and valuable 
beyond estimate. It taught them to respect the 
inalienable rights o f the governed, and to regard 
political freedom as the pillar of the throne. It 
taught them to respect opinion ; to eschew intol¬ 
erance ; to receive with caution, and view with 
scrutiny, the pharisaical teachings of creeds, 
whether religious or political; and to regard the 
race as a unity; children of one father ; co-heirs 
in the inheritance ol those prerogatives which 
God alone can bestow, and which God alone can 
withhold.— Lossing. 
WINFIELD SCOTT. 
[For a brief Biographical Sketch of Gen. Scott, the reader is referred to next column.] 
