 The Cavalcade of America, presented by DuPont, maker of better things for better living, crew chemistry. Story tonight, we bring you Andrew Jackson as a hard-fisted young lawyer in the wilderness, and his fight for the American way of life with equal justice under the law on the frontiers of our expanding republic. Our play, suggested by the life of Andrew Jackson, was written by Robert Talman and Eric Barno for the Cavalcade players. Starring in the role of Andrew Jackson is John McIntyre, the orchestra and the original musical score are under the direction of Don Boorys. DuPont, maker of better things for better living, through chemistry, presents John McIntyre's Andrew Jackson on the Cavalcade of America. Lord Cabins in a wilderness clearing called Nashville in a section of Indian territory known as Tennessee. A young lawyer is nailing his siren over a cabin door. Out here practicing law some day. You're a dude. I just finished riding the circuit, Andy. Taking it easy for a while. Only two murders and 10 robbers here in Nashville this week. So you're a real judge now. Let me have a look at you, sir. Well, don't seem to give you no gray hair yet. Don't give me time, Andy. Give me time. But, Andy, listen. Now, Nashville's not like Salterbury. Law's no picnic here. Fact is, I come over to warn you. Jean Sal, seen you come past the tavern totin' that sign. Now, he's gettin' up a gang to come over here and welcome you. Well, that's mighty nice of him. Who's Sal, then? Runs one of the biggest trade and posts in this Tennessee section to engine territory. Why don't he like lawyers? I'll tell you later, Andy. Here they come now. Grab a rail off that fence there, Andy. You need it. What for? Now, don't ask foolish questions and listen. Don't use the rail on the heads. They won't even feel it. Use it like a bathroom ram and aim for the mid-riff. But, Sam, I... Well, well. See, the judge got over here in a hurry to welcome his fellow crook from the east. I don't know what you're aiming at, mister. But I suggest you go on back where you come from. Peaceable. Peaceable, you hear that, boy? Now, listen, Mr. Hocus Pocus. We got a stomach to judge here on the count of the governor appointed them. We do want no more, you eastern fellows, comin' messin' around here with your law books. We got our own law out here in the wilderness, see? Well, I reckon I can practice your kind of law till you see the point about mine, stranger. Grab that rail out in his hands. Now, then, put up your fists, stranger. I'm prosecuting my first case, national fashion. Go on, Charles Keller. Watch me, boy, let's watch me. See, I hate to hit a kid, but I ain't got no choice, judge. I'll fan him out easy like that. You call that a blow, man? Just hold that pose for a second. That's it. Have to do better than that, Mr. Saul, if you aim to win any cases from me. Saul, he's not cold. I guess you're wild in the stock after all. Yeah, you're welcome to Nashville. Thank you, Gene. That's I, Andrew Jackson. So this is the law. Judge, how about finding me a place to lodge till I can get the shack cleanin'? Yeah, sure, Andy. Know just the place, family name at Donaldson. You like it there, Andy. I mean, Donaldson's a fine man. Talk like there's some other reason I might like to Donaldson. Well, they got good food there. Donaldson's daughters are fine cook. Yes, uh, Rachel's a mighty fine cook. They're all in one week. Jackson will keep his health. Good day, gentleman. Good day, Miss Rachel. Hey, ma'am. We get too fast around here to suit our purposes, Blimey. He's nosy, too. And? Yeah. The Indians coming up to my trading post. But he ain't found out nothin' yet about our deals with the Spanish to keep the territory out of the states. But he will if he stays on here and keeps snoopin'. How'd he aim to run him out? Uh, him and the judge ride circuit next week. If there's a few scalpens here in Nashville whilst he's gone, then if we let it be known that his talk is ridin' up the Indians againis. Well, so? You're a pole catcher. Shake, Jean. Shake. Mr. Jackson, you've been in Nashville a month till you like it by now. Can't complain, Rachel. Can't complain. Except I hear the Cherokees are collecting muskets. I got a notion they ain't doin' it for fun. Do you think there'll be trouble? At least they'll be gettin' you all upset, Rachel. I tell you, there's nothin' like gettin' back to Nashville in a piece of your elderberry pie. Wonderful, Rachel. Wonderful. Can I catch another quarter, Mr. Jackson? No, Rachel, thanks. I'd not. You know, Mr. Jackson, you clean up a pie as quick as a case in court. Well, I'm a natural enemy of scoundrels and a friend of good pie. I can love as good as I hate, Rachel. I was goin' to the spring now. Would you come with me? I'd feel safer. Madam, my guns are at your service. Well, let's go then. Mr. Jackson, do you think you'll ever succeed in establishing law in these wild regions? Let's don't talk about law, Rachel. Look at this beautiful fall day. Breathe the air out here. Indian summer. I'm sorry, Andy, it's so hard to forget. The Indians killed that green little girl just beyond the spring there. Paid them for the land, Andy. Why must they come back to murder our children? I think the Indians, Rachel. The Spaniards, the New Orleans, given them arms and stirred them up against. They want to scare us into joining Spain for safety. Andy! Andy Jackson! What, Adam Campbell comin' from the North Trail? Andy! Hank, it's turnin' you all back. Speak up, Adam, what's happened? They just found the McKay family, murdered in their beds. All of them. What are you all fixin' to do about it, Adam? There's a posse foreman now at the courthouse. They want you to lead them. We're gonna find this scoundrel that's been given arms to those Indians and string them up. Well, now, look here, Adam. I'll do all I can to help you find the senior after, but whoever it is, will you find him here. You're first gonna bring him here to that log courthouse for a fair trial. Fair trial for that scoundrel? That varmint? When we lay hands on him? Look here, Adam. You've got a bunch of men up in arms over this. More important work to be done than a lynching. Maybe gettin' the wrong man. The Cherokees are gettin' together out in the western country. If we don't stop them at the border, they'll be in Nashville before we know it. Adam, you're gonna get your men together. We're headin' to Cherokee country tomorrow morning. How can we do that ourselves? The Governor will north-rights the militia. Andy, are you sure it's the right thing to do? Remember Zeb Green's little girl? Yes. Yes, Andy, I guess you're right. But Andy... Yes, Rachel? Uh, before you go, I want you to give me a likeness of yourself. Well, Rachel... I want to carry it in this locket. Ma carried part there doin' the revolution, and she swears it's what got him back alive. The numbers of the legislature? I've called you here, the course words just come, that Andy Jackson and his men are on their way back from the Cherokee country. It's up to you to decide what we're gonna do with those fellows. Mr. Speaker, I suggest we strike off some medals and pin one on every man of that party. Mr. Donaldson, Mr. Donaldson, you don't understand that Jackson led those men against the Cherokees, contrary to the will of this legislature, and against my official orders, committed an act of aggression against New Spain. They've got to be punished. The Tennessee will never say it's going to be a free member of a free union of states. Listen here! Any fool can see what's wrong with that. We should have joined Spain, placed ourselves under a weak-kneeed nincompoop. It should be punished for the expedition against the Cherokees. It'll be put to a vote. What you doin' here? Mr. Speaker, Captain Jackson's other member of this body has no right on this floor. Lead the case out here. I speak myself to my men. This legislature, I say the same thing. Andrew Jackson and his men. The legislature's adjourned. I should have made my speech a little longer. I should have told them, I think I'm on the trail of the traitor here in Nashville, at last. I wouldn't be too sure of that if I was you, Jackson. You know there's only one trouble with this fair trial of yours. There ain't no guarantee a fellow will live long enough to present his case. Kevin, you're home safe again. The enemy was nothing compared with my countrymen in the legislature. Well, I hope you'll stay home long enough to appreciate my cookin' this time. Frater came, Rachel. I'm not even unpacking my kit. I'm going to Natchez. You're not going to Natchez alone. I'm going with you. Well, your father wouldn't allow it. I won't allow it, Rachel. Then I'll have to follow you without any escort. They say you've made the trail safe the whole way and I've always wanted to see the Mississippi so there. But this is different, Rachel. I've got a very special reason for going to Natchez. It's not going to be safe for me anyway. You're wasting your breath, Andy Jackson. Well, if you won't listen to those reasons, there are plenty of others. Think of the scandal you'll leave town with me. There won't be any scandal. We're going to be married by the justice of the peace before we start. Rachel, Rachel, you really mean that? Yes, Andy. I really mean that. I'm sorry we're nearly there. These have been such wonderful days. I never knew this Western country could be so beautiful. Neither did I, Rachel. I've seen it before. Andy, listen. You think of it, I never heard anything sound so much like a hoot owl. A little too natural. What do you mean? There's a Cherokee and camp near here. That may be the one I'm looking for. Rachel, I'm going to get you to Natchez quick and I'm coming back here. You can't come out here alone at night. I won't have to, not at Sam Bauer's in town. Sam Bauer and Natchez? But what for? Same thing as me, Rachel. Same thing as me. I don't know where they're coming from, Natchez. Indians have ears like mice. Isn't that English? They're speaking? I'll give you for nothing. Only because I'm your friend. And what a sea event. I'm your people. We only want to take this train up back so we can punish them. Secure it once more for maintaining the dignity of the court. Thank you, Judge. I've done this for the dignity of the court. I have to skin the hide-off every scoundrel in Tennessee. By that tunnel, I mean it. Another dynamic force in America's progress. For it was here at the very beginning of the trail he was to blaze to the presidency that Andrew Jackson began his great struggle to enforce justice and freedom in the building of our American nation. John McIntyre and the cavalcade players for their performance of the story of young Andrew Jackson on the cavalcade of America. And now DuPont brings you news of chemistry at work. If you own a car, you've no doubt wondered what's the best way to take care of the finish or the paint, as some people call it. The finish on your car is probably a lacquer or a synthetic resin enamel. Practically all cars today are finished in either one or the other. These finishes are bright and shiny when they're new and they keep their luster a remarkably long time. But if you neglect them, they will eventually grow dull and faded looking. Due partly to an accumulation of traffic film and partly to a slow microscopic erosion or weathering of the surface. You will understand weathering better if you remember that a car finish is made up chiefly of two materials. A powder called a pigment used to color the finish and give it body and a binder to hold the finish together. 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DuPont polishes have been scientifically formulated and tested by the men chiefly responsible for the modern car finish. They represent another contribution of the chemist who brings you, in the words of the DuPont Pledge, better things for better living through chemistry. And now the star of next week's program, Agnes Morehead of the Cavalcade Players. Next week we're doing the story of a girl, an almost legendary girl who became the sensation of an era for her crack marksmanship. A favorite with American audiences at Wild West shows, Annie Oakley became one of the most famous women of her generation. In tribute to her marksmanship, the entertainment world still calls passes or tickets with holes punched in them, Annie Oakley's. We hope you'll listen to her story on Cavalcade next week. In support of John McIntyre on tonight's program with the Cavalcade players, Agnes Morehead was Rachel, Ray Collins, Soral and Carl Swenson Judge Bowers. On the Cavalcade of America, your announcer is Clayton Collier, sending best wishes from DuPont. This is the National Broadcasting Company.