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PEG O'NEAL. 429 Was General Jackson right in carrying his defence of Mrs. Eaton to this extreme ? We may say of General Jackson that he often did a right thing in a wrong way. If he did not succeed in making the ladies call upon Mrs. Eaton, he gave the politics of the country a turn which, upon the whole, was beneficial.