The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . JACKSON- ANDREW JACKSON was thepioneer of the massesof the American peoplein their progress towardpolitical power. Thetraditions of the past,sanctioned by law andcustom, and the estab-lished arrangement ofsociety, had preventedthe full appreciation ofthe liberty guaranteedby the new constitu-tions of the AmericanStates. Until Jacksonarose, the people hadbeen practically treatedas a sovereign in hisminority, and the gov-ernment was administered in its name by a regency, variouslychosen; by the efforts
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . JACKSON- ANDREW JACKSON was thepioneer of the massesof the American peoplein their progress towardpolitical power. Thetraditions of the past,sanctioned by law andcustom, and the estab-lished arrangement ofsociety, had preventedthe full appreciation ofthe liberty guaranteedby the new constitu-tions of the AmericanStates. Until Jacksonarose, the people hadbeen practically treatedas a sovereign in hisminority, and the gov-ernment was administered in its name by a regency, variouslychosen; by the efforts and example of this leader from the wil-derness, the legitimate sovereign was declared to be of full ageand capable of conducting the government according to hisown will. Andrew Jackson was born March 15, 1767, at Waxhaw,a Scotch-Irish settlement just on the boundary between thetwo Carolinas, yet he always claimed to belong by birth toSouth Carolina. His father, who had arrived in 1765, died afew days before Andrews birth, leaving a widow and threesons to struggle with poverty. At the age of thirt
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