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OCR Page 1 of 8SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN OF
MISSOURI AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, ON SATURDAY
EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1941
FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
We are here tonight to commemorate one of the greatest victories of
American arms and to pay tribute to the Commander of our troops at that
victory -- Andrew Jackson, Major General, United States Senator, seventh
President of the United States; the man who really made the Democratic Party,
the Party that Thomas Jefferson visualized. Andrew Jackson gave us Democratic
government, cemented the Republic and firmly established the principles on
which the Democratic Party is founded. The actual control and management
of the Government by the people became a reality under the old firebrand
from Tennessee.
Until Jackson, Presidents had the advantages of birth, education and
social standing. Jackson carved his career out of the wilderness of the
West. He brought home to the Atlantic Seaboard that a very important part
of the nation also lay west of the Alleghenies. The migration into Tennessee,
Kentucky, Ohio and the Northwest Territories had opened up new lands and
created new problems even as the age old ones were still perplexing the Adams
administration. Bank failures, unemployment and the farm problem were just
as lively and perplexing in the days one hundred years ago as they are today.
There was a general feeling west of the Appalachian Mountains that the
Washington government was a long way off and not particularly interested in
the general welfare of the country as a whole. Presidential candidates were
picked at caucuses of the Representatives in Congress. The people were not
considered. The Era of Good Feeling under Monroe and John Quincy Adams was
rather like the Era of Prosperity under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The
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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
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