Produced by Charlene Taylor, Barbara Kosker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) The Riverside Biographical Series NUMBER 1. ANDREW JACKSON BY WILLIAM GARROTT BROWN [Illustration: Andrew Jackson] ANDREW JACKSON BY WILLIAM GARROTT BROWN [Illustration] HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY Boston: 4 Park Street; New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street Chicago: 378-388 Wabash Avenue The Riverside Press, Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY WILLIAM GARROTT BROWN ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. THE WAXHAWS AND THE WILDERNESS 1 II. CONGRESS: THE BENCH: THE MILITIA 24 III. TOHOPEKA AND PENSACOLA 46 IV. NEW ORLEANS 69 V. THE SEMINOLES AND THE POLITICIANS 87 VI. THE WHITE HOUSE 118 ANDREW JACKSON I THE WAXHAWS AND THE WILDERNESS In Lafayette Square, which fronts the White House at Washington, there is an equestrian statue of a very thin, long-headed old man whose most striking physical characteristics are the firm chin and lips and the bristling, upright hair. The piece is not a great work of art, but it gives one a strong impression of determination, if not of pugnacity. Sculptors have not the means to represent the human eye, else this impression might have been made stronger; for the old gentleman whose warlike aspect is here reproduced had a glance like a hawk's. He had, moreover, a habit of gazing fixedly at any one who attracted his attention. When he was angry, as he was quite frequently, few men could meet his look with composure. When he was in good humor, however, as he usually was when he dealt with his friends, or with women or children, his eyes could be very kindly, and his grim lips could part in a smile that was extremely attractive.