THE LATIN DID IT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 26, 1 July 1909, Page 1037

THE LATIN DID IT

Once before he was President, Andrew Jackson was making a political speech in some obscure campaign in a backwoods Tennessee district (says the St. Paul Pioneer' Press). His? address was very well received, but somehow there did not seem to be exactly the enthusiasm wanted for the occasion. Having vainly tried to ' warm up ' his hearers,, the General was just going to sit down when tho chairman of the meeting plucked him by the coat tail: ' For goodness sake, General, give 'em some Latin I ' he hurriedly whispered in the speaker's ear. ' They wont " think you know anything at all if you quit like this. Smith, the Opposition candidate, talked Latin io 'em half the evening.' Old Hickory rose to the situation. Advancing to the edge of the platform, he extended his arm and thundered out: C E pluribus unuml Sic semper tyrannisX Habeas corpus !' The audience roared with applause, The credit of the orator was saved, and the Jackson ticket won out in that county.