Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . CHAPTER V. COMMENCEMENT OF THE CREEK WAR. E now come to anew and import-ant era in the lifeof Jackson. Theprolonged aggres-^ sions of GreatBritain upon themaritime rights,commerce, and honour of America, effectually arousedthe spirit of the American people. Hostilities becom-ing unavoidable. Congress, on the 12th of June, 1812,declared war against the United Kingdoms, and au-thorized the president to accept the services of fiftythousand 92 COMMENCEMENT OF THE CREEK WAR. General Jackson, though watchful of events, andkeenly alive to their bearing,
Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . CHAPTER V. COMMENCEMENT OF THE CREEK WAR. E now come to anew and import-ant era in the lifeof Jackson. Theprolonged aggres-^ sions of GreatBritain upon themaritime rights,commerce, and honour of America, effectually arousedthe spirit of the American people. Hostilities becom-ing unavoidable. Congress, on the 12th of June, 1812,declared war against the United Kingdoms, and au-thorized the president to accept the services of fiftythousand 92 COMMENCEMENT OF THE CREEK WAR. General Jackson, though watchful of events, andkeenly alive to their bearing, had retired from publichfe, and was engaged in the calm pursuits of agricul-ture. The sound of war was welcome in his seclusion,for it summoned him to a deathless renown. It cameto his quick ear like a long wished-for permit to avengethe wrongs of those, for whom he was ever ready tosacrifice, without stint, his repose, his fortune, and hisblood. The war-cry of his country scarcely vibratedon the breeze, ere he echoed it back as music, withwhich every chord of his soul was in unison. On the25th of June, thirteen days after the declaration ofwar, he left his ripe harvest drooping for the sickle, andoffered to the general government, through the execu-tive of Tennessee, his services, with those of twenty-five hundred brave men, who had flocked to hisstandard on the first certain sound of war. On the 12th of July, the Secretary of War wrote tothe Governor of Tennessee, The tend
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