I deem it an honor to join in todays celebration. A forceful. at times violent personality. Jackson continues to provoke controversy among historians. who see in him reflections of both the best and the worst tendencies of the new Republic. Jackson was a southwestern parvenu who combined a sense of roughhewn egalitarianism with the gentlemanly honor typical of his class. Born In the Carolina backwoods to an immigrant farming family from Ireland. he fought In the Revolution and was captured and imprisoned by the British. By wars end. all but one member of his immediate family had died in connection with the conflict. A teenager alone and adrift.
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