Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . onal quarrels, the sword. The battle of Lex-ington had been fought, and the echo of its din hadreached the wilds of the Waxhaws without excitingimmediate alarm. Later, the defeat of the British atCharleston had been borne to the distant cottajxe of ourheros mother, on the wings of rumour, and had broughtthe cheering assurance that for the present her fire-side would be safe from the brutality of British came the news that Independence was declared;and the young heart of Jackson exulted in the con-sciousness that he had a country. No longer a mer
Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . onal quarrels, the sword. The battle of Lex-ington had been fought, and the echo of its din hadreached the wilds of the Waxhaws without excitingimmediate alarm. Later, the defeat of the British atCharleston had been borne to the distant cottajxe of ourheros mother, on the wings of rumour, and had broughtthe cheering assurance that for the present her fire-side would be safe from the brutality of British came the news that Independence was declared;and the young heart of Jackson exulted in the con-sciousness that he had a country. No longer a mere HOSTILITIES WITH ENGLAND. 19 colonist, he was destined to be a free citizen of the soilon which he was born; and when the din of arms camenearer, and the foot of the invader was already onCarolinian ground, he had become old enough andstrong enough to shoulder the partisan rifle, to mounthis horse, and become one of those wild rangers of theforest whose ubiquity and valour were alike the dreadof Tarleton, Rawdon, and
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