A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . s strongly, and, being always sure he was right, liquors in the State of Maine, was passed. At later dates other Statesenacted similar laws. The result of the temperance movement hasbeen that drunkenness has greatly decreased in the United States, andhas quite lost the respectability which it once possessed. * Andrew Jackson was born in one of the Carolinas (it is not surewhich) in 1767. He was an active, athletic lad, not given to books,and passing a life of adventure. At fourteen he was taken prisoner bythe British,
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . s strongly, and, being always sure he was right, liquors in the State of Maine, was passed. At later dates other Statesenacted similar laws. The result of the temperance movement hasbeen that drunkenness has greatly decreased in the United States, andhas quite lost the respectability which it once possessed. * Andrew Jackson was born in one of the Carolinas (it is not surewhich) in 1767. He was an active, athletic lad, not given to books,and passing a life of adventure. At fourteen he was taken prisoner bythe British, and was wounded on the head by an officer whose bootshe had refused to clean. After the war he engaged in various pursuits,finally became a lawyer, and was sent to Congress in 1796. He dis-tinguished himself greatly in the war with the Creek Indians and atthe battle of New Orleans, and gained popular fame by his dealingswith the Spanish in Florida. After his retirement from the Presidencyhe lived quietly at the Hermitage, his home near Nashville, where hedied in 1845. 20. 300 THIRTY YEARS OF PEACE AND PROGRESS. could not often be moved by argument. He was a firmfriend and a bitter enemy, and had the dangerous weakness of looking upon his personal enemiesas enemies of the country. He had anunyielding will, as his Cabinet officersfound, their influence in the affairs ofgovernment being very slight. His onegood quality was honesty. He meantwell by the country in all he did, andattacked what he thought corruptionwithout a care for who might be in OflBce.—Jackson beganandukw Jackson. j^j^ official Career by inaugurating a newand unwise system of office-holding, that known as rota-tion in office. It was growing to be considered undemo-cratic for public offices to be held long by the same per-son. The offices belonged to the people, men said, andshould be enjoyed by as many of the people as possible. A different view had before prevailed, the former Presi-dents making
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