Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . on of yourgenerals thanks is feeble, but the gratitude of a coun-try of freemen is yours—yours the applause of anadmiring world. The Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi troopsthen took their departure; and General Gaines beinginvested with the command of the southern depart-ment. General Jackson soon left New Orleans forNashville. The good wishes and friendship of thepeople followed him; and he carried with him a con-sciousness of having done his duty. A tedious jour-ney of eight hundred miles brought him to Nashville,where an innnense concourse was collecte
Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . on of yourgenerals thanks is feeble, but the gratitude of a coun-try of freemen is yours—yours the applause of anadmiring world. The Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi troopsthen took their departure; and General Gaines beinginvested with the command of the southern depart-ment. General Jackson soon left New Orleans forNashville. The good wishes and friendship of thepeople followed him; and he carried with him a con-sciousness of having done his duty. A tedious jour-ney of eight hundred miles brought him to Nashville,where an innnense concourse was collected, to greethis return, and welcome his arrival. They had longknown him as among the number of their best andmost respectable citizens; but now curiosity had anew incentive. Until now, they had not beheld himas one, who, to protect his country, knew no difficultytoo great to be encountered,—who, by his firmness,and unconquerable perseverance amidst surroundingdangers, had shielded her from foreign and intestine 364 NEW Return to Nashville. foes. An elegant address, drawn up and delivered byMr. Grundy, welcomed his return. Having receivedthis further display of public confidence, the moregrateful because from those who were his acquain-tances, neighbours and friends, he returned home, toenjoy that repose, to which, for eighteen months, hehad been a stranger. Thus did General Jackson put an end to the secondwar with Great Britain, and return to his into consideration the comparative strengthof the two armies, and the comparative loss, there isno battle on the pages of history which will comparewith that of New Orleans. It was this battle thatcrowned the military career of Andrew Jackson ! Itwas this battle that gave him a ftime and reputationimperishable in all future time. And now that his JACKSONS MILITARY REPUTATION. 365 name and his acts have become the property of hiscountry, the voice of emulation and discord is hushedfor ever—that full justice wi
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