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mother came in 1765 from Ireland to South
They landed at Charleston and
went 150 miles into the country and built
They had just reared their
cabin, made a little opening in the forest

Carolina.
a log cabin.

and raised one crop, when the father and
husband fell sick and died. This was just
before little Andrew’s birth, and the mother
took the two little boys, placed the corpse
in a wagon beside her, buried the body, and
then from the grave went to her sister’s.

 

ANDREW JACKSON.
1767-1845. Two Terms, 1829-1837.

The mother inafew days gave birth to
Andrew, the child whose fame was to
fill the civilized world. Pen could never
describe the privation and suffering and
sorrow the mother had in bringing up these
children.
told her that one day Andrew Jackson
would be President of the United States,
what hope, what courage might have been

Could some good angel have

given to her, but in this, as in all other

PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

 

things, “‘God’s ways are past finding out,”
and the mother struggled as but few moth-
ers could. Andrew grew up rough, rude
and wild. His features were coarse and
When Andrew went
to school in a log cabin, he learned to

his form ungainly.

read; spelling was something he never
learned. He also learned to write a little
and became familiar with the fundamental
This is about the sub-

stance of his schooling. When fourteen,

rules of arithmetic.

slender and weak from his rapid growth,
a band of Tories made a midnight attack

‘upon the house when Andrew was guard.

As a final result he and his brother
were taken prisoners, not, however, until
they had been seriously wounded. They
were carried forty miles; on the way were
allowed no food or water; were put in a
prison without beds and without medical
attendance. There several days and nights
of misery passed. Small-pox broke out,
and the dying and dead were altogether.
Mrs. Jackson heard of her boys’ suffering
and finally succeeded in getting their re-
lease. Robert, who was the weaker of the
two, she put upon a horse, but Andrew was
obliged to walk all the way home bare-
headed, bare-footed, clothed in rags, so
weak that he could scarcely drag one limb
Shortly after Robert died.
Andrew, however, recovered, but only to

after another.

learn of his mother’s death, as a result of
a fever. We will hasten over what fol-