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GEN. JACKSON’S INAUGURALtcOl1(The Venerable Augustus Reed, t, When a Roy, Saw the Great ;1Event. iuProbably He is the Only Living Man in Indiana Who Was j|J I Present.t.( ! 1A CEREMONY LACKING IN POMP.u•' -.1□* t:Among the moat precious »-emem-:e 1 branch of the aged former Oomrais- j i sinner, Augustus Reed, of Blue Lick, is the memory of the inauguration ot the hero of INew Orleans, President Andrew Jackson, which took place \ March 4, 1829. Mr. Keed was then a fourteen year obi boy. He bad been Hying in Louisville, but at the request of hie grandfather, Hon. John Roan, member of Congress for the rtapp*bannock district, of Virginia, he whb brought East by Hon. Cbarlea WycElitfe, member of Cin-gieas, afterwbrda Governor, of Kec-i tucky. Tee party traveled E«st on horseback, by boat and by stage, jthrough the then sparsely settled5\It country ami a her nearly a month (.'spent on the rod, arrived safely anti iIwithout adv.n*ure at the capital,^ wnlch was at the time nothing like :the tnaguificftut city it now is. This { occurred some time, before the inaug- j urafion and ihe young man was put j | to school in Washington, hoarding at 1a house where in.-.ny cf the notables Iof that day were lodged.fiin1arIWhen the inauguration took place, jlt; be vaa to be with the party,ot which i 1 his grandfather formed a member,'I but somehow he strayed from it in j 1 the press and stood oufside the barrier, crying about it, when Col. Eaton, aide-de-camp to President Jackson, eame along and, knowing the boy, asked him the cause ot hia distresses. Being intormed, Col Katon took him by the hand and led J i him to a place almost immediately j I at the feel of “Old Hickory,” and, I there the youth sat through the in- i ] augural, deeply interested and de-i: lighted. j fIhe inaugural took place in the'i front portice of thecapitol, the President-ek-ct standiug on the upper steps, while around him were gathered the members of Congress, Chie justices and officers o' the Govern-! meut. In fiont surged a great mass ot people, who hbd come to see the great event. The ceremony was1 simple and lacked the pomp which ha* since characterized the inaugu-1 rals ot the chief magistrates of the ^ Nation, Alter being sworn info the high duties of bis office Gen. Jacksonmade a brief inaugural address, butof this, naturally, Mr. weed does not j remember anything. {He is probably the only livinglndiwnian, who attended the inaugural ceremonies of “Old Hickory.’,
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Jeffersonville National Democrat
Jeffersonville, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 11, 1898
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