From the Maryiander.
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The active. partizans Of General Jackson. seem |
determined to impose the belief upon those who
have not had opportunity OF studying his charac ter
that he is second Washington. With all their ef
frontery, however, they have not been able to show
in what the resemblance consists.


Gen. Washington never charged his country dol
lar more for his services than his actual expenses
while engaged in her employment; and retired to
his estate as soon as the objects for which he drew
his sword were secured.


General Jackson says in his letter to Gen. Swart-
won't, that he retired after the peace but let see
in what manner he retired. lie did, to be sure,
leave the army, and retire to his farm in 1915,
where he remained until 1921 But during the
whole of that period, he was receiving the full pay
and emoluments ola Major General, although, with
the exception of his campaigns against the Greeks,
and in Florida, he was not at all engaged in actual
service While General Jackson was residing at
home, attending to his own private concerns. he
drew upwards of FORTY THOUSAND DOL
LARS from the public Treasury. Parts of this
amount were made up in charges of rent for his dwell
ling house, and for the hire of his own horses and
servants engaged in his private affairs.


WASHINGTON, says Ihatcher'S Military Jour
nal, after the capitulation of CORVALLIS and his ar
my, ordered that all those who were under arrest
or in confinement, should be Immediately pardonet
and set at liberty.


GENERAL JACKSON, fourteen da 5s after de
ieating the Brtsh--on the very day of his triumph
ant entrance into the city of New Orleans--signe,
ali order approving the sentence of Court Martial
which consigned SIX of his then late brother soldier
to an ignomiuous DEATH and ONE HUNDREi
AND EIGHTY SEVEN others chiefly to a mos
tllsgraceiul punishment--to have their hair shave
ciosc of their heads, and be drummed out OF CAM
SVe will not dwell upon this contrast but asl
wherein the resemblance is to be found.