Republic, whose rights and liberties he ever defended, even at the
risk of his life. He died December 31, 1882.

Well had he fulfilled the hopes and ambitions of his loving
mother, well had he answered the pathetic appeal, "Try to come
home a somebody."





ANDREW JACKSON THE BOY WHO "NEVER WOULD GIVE UP"


"Sir, I am a prisoner of war, and demand to be treated as such,"
was the spirited reply of Andrew Jackson to a British officer who
had commanded him to clean his boots.

This was characteristic of the future hero of New Orleans, and
president of the United States, whose independent spirit rebelled
at the insolent command of his captor.

The officer drew his sword to enforce obedience, but, nothing
daunted, the youth, although then only fourteen, persisted in his
refusal. He tried to parry the sword thrusts aimed at him, but did
not escape without wounds on head and arm, the marks of which he
carried to his grave.

Stubborn, self-willed, and always dominated by the desire to be a
leader, Andrew Jackson was by no means a model boy. But his