Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1845 — Page 4

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niciuoration of the Life and Services or Andrew Jackton, lelivercl tit tlie Vist Trout of the Capitol in the Clijr of Washington, June 27, IS 15. The earn of the American revolution are no more. The age oT crevive power hes passed away. The last surviving sifrier of Iba Declaration of Indcpenpenc bia long LA tV iti WaakinfftAn Ii na e Kia AtaVfi ltW

tomae. arroanded by hi. own f.,ni!y and ecrv.nte. Ad- hi. qoiet, deep-seated, innate. intoi.ive f.ith in -m. tba eofassu. of independence, reno-e. in the rem, freedom, and in tha inalitir.iou. offre dorn. He v

i - i i rat grave yard of hi. native rrgion. Ji fferaon eleeps on the heights of his own Monticello, whence hi. eye overkoked hi. beloved Virginia. M.Jion,lha U.t survivor of the men who made our constitution, w,,, 'n our heart. But who .hall eay that the ber-e, in whom the image of (J.mI hone most brightly, d net live forever !

They were Cited with the van conceptions which called ( America i.ito keine;; they lived fr those conceptions and heir deed, prais them. We are met b cfimroemorate the virtuee of one who ah d hi. blood for otir independence, took part in winning the territory tr.d forming the early institutions of the Weit, and waa imhued with atl the great id :a which e.nelitute the moral force of cur country. On the .pot where be give hi. anlemn fealty to the people here, where he pledged himself before the w?r!d to freedom, to the constitution and to the lawi we meet to pay our tribute to the memory of the last grrat nan, which gather, round itaelf all the associations that form the glory of America. South Carolina gave a birth-place to Andrew Jjckson. On it. remote frontier, far up on the forest-clad kink, of the Catawba, in a region where the .etiler were just beginning to cluster, bi. eye first aaw the light. Theie hi. infancy .ported in the ancient forest, and hi. mind was nursed to freedom by their influence. He waa the youngest eon of an Irish emigrant, of Scottish origin, who, two year, after the great war of Frederic of Prussia, fled to America for relief from indieence and oppression. Hi

- w . birth was in 1767, it time when tlic rcuple of our land were but a body of deieiulent colonists, scarre'y more than two million in number, scattered along our immense coast, with w army, or navy, or union ; anJ exposed I the attempt, of England to control America by the aid of nit-try force. II is boyhood grw up in the mid dt of the content with Great Uritaiü TK fir., .t f..l.t..l iruih that reached bis heart, was that all men are (Vee and equal ; the first great fact that beamed on hi. understanding, waa hia country, independence. The strife, a. it increased, came near the shades of hi. own upland residence. A. a boy of thirteen, he witnessed the scenes of horror that accompany civil war ; and when but a year o!der, with an elder brother, he shouldered his musket, and went forth to strike a bl w for bi country. Joyous er& tor America and for humanity ! Cut for

hirh, the orphan hoy, the event, were full of agony and grief His fuhcr was no more. His oldest brother fell a

victim to the war of the revolution ; another, bi. compan

ion in arm., died of wound, received in tlu-ir joint capti

vity ; hie mother went down to (he grave a victim logrirf

- and efforts to rescue her sons; and when peace came, he

wa. alone in the woi Id. with n kindred to cherish hint .and little inheritance but his own untried powers. The nation which emancipated iUelf from British rule organises itself t the confederation ctvf s way to the con

stitution: the perfecting of that ronsliturion that grand

event of the thousand years of modern history ts accom

plishc! ; America exists a. a pcopfe, gains unity aa a gov

ernment, and take, its place as a nation among the po era of the earth.

The next office to be performed by America, is the tak

ing possession of Ihe wilderness. 1 he magnificent we.

U-rn valley cried out to the civilization of popular power,

that it must be occupied by cultivated mm.

Behold, then, nur orphan hero, sternly earnest, conse

crated to humanity from childhood by sorrow, having nei

ther father, nor mother, nor sister, nor suiviving brother.

so young and yet ao solitary, and therefore hound the more closely to collective man beho'd him elect for his

lot to go forth and assist in laying the fouudalioni of so

ciety in the great valley of the Mississippi.

At the very time when Washington wa-t pWg'ng bis

own and future generations to the support of the popular institution, which were to bv the light of the human race

at the time when the institutions of the old woild were rocking to the centre, and the mighty fabric that bad come

down from the middle ages wa3 failing in the adventur

ous Jackson, in the radiant glory and boundless bope and

confident intrepidity or twrnty-one, plunged into the wil

dWne&s, crossed the great mountain barrier that Jivi le

the western waters lion the Atlantic, followed the paths

of Ine early hunters and fugitives, and, not content with

the nearer ne'ghborhooj to his parent State, went tili fur

ther and further to the west, tilt he found bis home in the

most beautiful region of the Cumberland. There, from the first, he was recognised as the great pioneer ; under hia courage, the Coming emigrant were sure la fjnJ

a. shield.

The lovers of adventure began to poür themselves into

the territory, whose delicious cluuaie and fertile s il in- : . i .t r . . . ....

ivu iiw iirnc ui man. J no iiunler witn His

nfle and bis nxe, attended by his wife and children ; the

herdsman driving I lie few calth iriat were (o multiply is they browsed ; the cultivator of the soil all came to this

inviting region. Wherever the bending mountains oin

d a pass wherever the bufljlocs and beasts of ihe forest! ' bad made a trace, these sons of nature, children of humanity, in the highest sentiment of personal freedom, came to occupy the beautiful wilderness whose prairies blossomed everywhere profusely with wild flowers -whose woods in spring put to shame, by their magnificence, the cultivated gardena of man. And uow that these unlettered fugitives, educated only y the spirit of freedom, destitute of dead letter erudition, but sharing the living ideas of tbe a je, had mails their homes in the West hat would follow! Wou'd ther degrade themselves to ignorance and infidelity ? Wou d they make the solitudes of the desert excuses for licen' tiousness 1 Would the doctrines of freedom lead them to lire in unorganized society, destitute of laws and fixed institutions 7 At a time when European society was becoming brok en in pieces, scattered, disunited, and resolved into iis element, a scene ensued in Tennessee, than which nothing more beautifully grand is recorded ia the anna's of the race. These adventurers in the wilderness longed U come together in organized society. The overshadowing genius of their lirf70 inspired them with good designs, and filled them wrfh the counsels wf wisdom. Dwellers iu the forest, fret of ibe free, bound in the spirit, they came op by their representatives, on foot, on horsback) through the forest, along ibe streams, by the buda'a traces, by the Indian paths, by the bin d forest avenues, to meet in convention" among the mountains of Knoxville, and frame for themselves a constitution. Andrew Jackson was there, the greatest man of then all modest, bold, determined, demanding nothing r himself, and shrinking fro n no- . thins; that bis heart approved.

1 ae convention came together on the eleventh day of January, 1796, and finished its work on the sixth day of

February. How had the wisdom of the Old World1 vainly tasked itself to frame constitutions, thst should, at least, be the subject of experiment; the men of Tennessee, in less than twenty-five days, peifocted a fabric, which, in it essential forms, was to last forever They came together, lull of faith and reverence, of love to humanity, of confidence in truth. Io the simplicity of wisdom, they framed their constitution, acting under higher influences than they were conscious of They wrought in sad sincerity, Themselves fruo God they cow! J not free '. They boil Jed better than they knew; Tbe conscious stones lo beauty grew. In the Fnstrameot which they Ira med, they embodied theit faith in God, and in ibe immortal nature of man. Tbey gave the right of auftrage to evtry freeman ; they

vindicated the sanctity of reason, by giving freedom of

speetb and or ins press ; tiiey reverenced tbe voice of (Jod.

a. it speaks in the soul of man, by aserting tbe indefeasible right of man to worship the Infinite accoidin to hia

conscience ; they established the freedom and equality of

elections ana mey ueina:ided iro n every future legis'a

tor, a solemn oan -never to consent to any act or thing whatever that shall have even a lendency-to lessen the

jights ol the peop e. These njtic lawgivers, wiser than the Solon., and

v im null, iiiowio. iinu i nese proplietic founders of a täte, who embodied in their consti

tution the sublimest truths of humaiiity, acted without reference to human praises. Tbey keep no special record of iheir doing ; they tok

no pa ns lo vaunt tbrir deeds ; and when their work was done, knew not that they hid finished one of the sublimes! acts ever performed aroorg men- They left no record, as to whose sgeney was onsj.icu u, whose eloquence

.W.J.-U, whom generous will predominated : nur hnuld we know, but for tradition, confirmed lj what followed among tbemselve.

i ne men or j ennesaoe were now a rrrop'e . ,nj Wewers to send forth a mm to stand for them in the Uongress of the United States that avenue to g'ory that horn of eloquence Iba ciUJrl of popular Kwer ; and with one consent, they united in selecting tbe foremost nis-fi amonj their law-giver -Andrew Jackson. The Ive of the people of Tennessee followed him to the American Congress ; and be had revved but a single term when the State of TeDnensee m de hiiu one of the repr. senUtives of the American Sonate, where he sal under the ae pices of Jeflurson. Thu, when be wss scarrcly more thsn thirty, he had puided the settlement of the wilderness; swayed the deMersiion of a people in esisl-lisbtng iu fundamental laws, acted a. the repr. tentative of that people, and agiu as the

rAtiLlnnfMcntiÜM c( hi orranixed State, disciplined to

knowledge of the people and the power oi tne oiaies; tne asaocia-e of republican statesmen, the friend and companion of Jefferson. . ..., The men who framed the constitution of the United States, many of them, did not know the innate life and ..ir-nre-rvinrenerirv of their work. They feared that

freedom cou'd not endure, and they planned a strong goveminent for iU protection. .

During bis short career in Uongre-, jacason snowwi

Duman

was ever,

bv his voice and opinions, found among those who bad

ennfi.lrnca in DummUT; inu Ml mo gfca uuiwuu

minds thia child of the w.vlland, this representative of

forest life in the west, was found modestly and firmly on the side of freedom. It d d not occur to him to doubt the

right of man to tie free development of bis power ; it d d not occur to him to place a guardianship over the people ;

it did not ocrur lo bim to seek to give durab.tity to popu

lar initiation, by giving to government a sireng h inde

pendent of popular will.

From the first, be was aliscne.i to trie mnuamemai uoctrines of popular power, and of the policy that favor it ; and though his reverence for Washington surpassed his reverence for any human being, he voted against the ad

dress of the House of Representatives to V ashington on his retirement, because it. language appeared to aanction

the final policy which he believed h.ntile to republican

freedom.

Durinz his period of service in the Senate. Jackson was

elected major general by the brigadiers and field ofliceis of

the militia of I ennessee. Kesifrmng his place in tne Benate, be wss made judge of the Supreme Court in law and

equity ; auch was the eonßJence in his integrity of pur

pose, bis clearness of judgment, and his vigor of will to

deal justly among tne turbulent woo crowded into tne new

settlements of 1 ennes?ee.

TbuS in the abort p ri.d nf nine years, Andrew Jackson

wa. signslized by as many evidences of public esteem as

could fall to the lot of man. 1 he pioneer of the wilder

nets, the defender of its stations, he was their law-giver.

the sole representative of Ihe 3' ate in the tento. ttie

highest in military rotnmand, the highest in judicial of

fice, lie ieemod to be recognized as the tir.t in love 01

liberty, tbe first in tbe science of legislation, in judgment

nd inleeritv.

Fond of private life he would have resigned the jodi

cial ottice, out tne wnoie country uemanou nis service

".Nature," they cried, nevei designed that your powers o

thought and independence of mind should be lost in re

tirement. But after a few years, relieving himself from

the carea of the bench, he gave himself to the activity and the independent life of a husbandmin. Ho carried into

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retirement the fame of natural intelligence, and was rher-

ished as a "prompt, frank, and ardent soul. His vigor

of character constituted him first among all with whom he

associated. A private man a. be wa, his name wa. familiarly spoken round every hearth stone in Tennessee.

Men loved to discuss bis qualities. AH discerned bis power; and when the vehemence and impetuosity of his nature were observed upon, there were not wanting those who saw, beneath the blading fires of his genius, the soli

dity of bi. judgment.

His hospitable roof sheltered tbe emigrant and tbe pio. 1 . 1 . i . I . . L I

neer ; and, as tney maue tneir way to tueir new unmrs, they filled the mountain aides and the valleys with his Praise. . - . . . . m m m . 'II t

Connecting biraself, for a season, wiin a man oi busi

ness, Jackson soon discerned the misconduct of his asso

ciate. It marked nis character, that ho insisted, nunseii.

on paying every obligation that had been contracted ; and rather than endure tbe v:sssla?e nf debt, he instantly

parted with the rich domain which his early enterprise

had acquired with his own mansion with the field.

which he himself bad first tamed to the ploughshare with the forest whose trees were as familiar to him as his

friend and chose rather to dwell, for A time, in a rude log-cabin, in the pride of independence and integrity.

On all great occasions, Jacksons influence was deter

red to. When J-fTerson bad acqomd tor the country the whole of LouUians.and there see med some hesitancy ,on the

purl of Spain, to acknowledge our possession, the services

ot J season weie so icncn ny me national auininistraiion, and were not called into full exercise, only from the

peaceful termination i f tbe incidents that occasioned the ummons.

In the Idiig series of aggressions on ihe freedorfl of the

neas, and the rignts oi tne American nig, jatKSon waa on the side of his codmry, and the new maritime codn of re

publicanism. In bis inland home, where Ihe roar of tbe Weaken was never beard, and the mariner was never seen, he rescn tod the continued aggression on our commerce and on our sd lors. When the continuance of wron compelled the nation to resort to arms, Jackson, led by the instinctive knowledge of bis own greatness, yet with a uiodesly that would have honored Ihe most sensitive delicacy of n iturc, confessed his willingness to be employed on the Canada frontier ; aod it is a fact, that he aspired lo the command to which Winchester wss appointed. We may ask, what would have been the result, if the command of ihe northwestern army had, at the opening of the war been intrusted to a man, who, in action, was ever so fortunate, ttiat his vehement will seemed Id have inido destinv capitulate

td bis designs 1

The path of duty led him in another direction. On the declaration of war, Iweuiy five hundied volunteers had risen at his word to follow his standard ; but, by countermanding order, from the sest of government, the movement was without effect. A new and great danger hting over the West. The Indian tribes were to make one lal clTlirt to restore it to its solitude, and recover it for savage lib. Tbe brave, relentless Shawnees who, from time immemorial, hid trolled from the waters of the Ohio to the rivers of the Alabama were animatrd by Tec dm sen and his brother the Prophet, who spoke to them as with the voice of a Great Spirit, and roused the Ciei-k nation lo desperste massacres. Who has not beard of their terrible deeds, when their ruHhlefs cruelly spired neither aex nor a?e i when the infant and its mother, ihe planter aod his family, who had tirfd for refuge to the fortress, thegsrrison thai

capitulated all were slain, and not a vestige of defence

was left in the country 7 J he cry of the west demanded

Jackson for its defender; and though his arm was then

fractured by a ball, and bung in a khnj, be plüced him

self at ihe beaJ of the volunteers of Tenne.-s.-e, and resolved to terminate forever the heredi'ary Struggle.

V bo can tell tne horrors of that ca i.paign I W bo can paint rightly the obrtacbs which Jackson overcame mountains, the scarcity of untenanted forests, winter, the

failure of supplies from the settlements, the insubordina

tion of troops, mutiny, menaces of desertion 7 Who can

measure the wonderful power over men. by which his per

sonal prowess and attractive energy drew them in midwinter from their homes, across the miunt ii .a and morasses, and through trackless deserts 1 Who can descrilte the personal keroism of Jackson, never sparing himself, beyond any of hia men encountering toil and fatigue, sharing every labor of the camp and of the march, fore moat in every danger; giving up bis borre to the invalid soldier, while he himself waded through the swamp on foot 1 None equalled him in power of endurance ; and the private scfdier, as they found him passing them on the march, exclaimed, "he is as tough a. the hickory," "Ye," they cried" 6rre to another, "there goes Old Hicko-

will? Behold the savior of Louisiana, all garlanded with

victory, viewing around bim tbe city he itad preserved, the maidens and children whom bis heroism bad protected, Und in ibe presence of a petty judge, who gräti

ges his wounded vanity by an abuse ot ins judicial pow

er, r.very breai in lite crowded aunience neavea witn

ndif nation. He, tbe passionate, the impetuous he

whose power was to be bumbled, whose 1

a as as a a B r

presupposes tbe dinusion ot ireedoni organized me in all the parts of the American body politic, aa there is organized lifo in every part of the human system. Jackson was deal to every counsel which aoueht to subject general labor to a central wilt. His vindication of Ihe just

principles oi tne constitution uenvea its suoiimity irom

into retirement Dwelling amongst you, he desired your prosperity. This beautiful city, surrounded by heights the most attractive, watered by a river so magnificent, the borne of the gentle and tbe cultivated, not less than the seat of political power ; this city, whose site Washington

bad selected, was dear to bis alieclion ; and if be bad won

his deeo contiction mat mis stncl construction is renuirea , k , j,..:n,

-j . . Tour craieiui aiisiuuicu ""-a vH.nor nuition- bv tbe lagtins welfare ol the treat labonn tlassea of the i ..i.i;.,; i;. i

ed, whose laurels tarnished, alone stood sublimely serene ; L nited States.

architecture, by establishing iu credit, and re

ihe tribunical power or, ' bur,en h regretted only that be bad not the the decisive action of opportunity to have connected himself still more inttmately

of useful

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ml when the rrnvaii uitlt? trcmüica. anu laurrra. ana i io inn enu, iti3uW ic-.-eu i

. I - 2 ., .wL-..nl t . ttnA firm l.nsa dim f ! i a c to' ami exerted it arninst

ucu u, r-a'u" ".- ' I."- - " 71 ... .7 .. with vour nroswr ilv

take counifl. and stood by the law even in tne moment bolli orancnes oi winjrew, again, me votes, me n -.sues, i j w ,'... it , . . .t. when the law was made the instrument of insult and the entreaties of personal and political friends. "Show As be prepared to take b.s final leave of the district, the

wrong on bi.nsell-at tbe moment of bis most perfect n.e," was bis reply to them, "show nie an express clause mass oi tne popii.at.on o ... . i..y. u.e

claim to the hübest civic honors.

Hi. country, when it grew to bold many more million

the generation that then vcas coming irt, has risen up to

do hotntt to the noblo heroism id tuat hour. Woman,

whose fueling is always right, did honor from tbe first lo the purity i( bis heroism. Tbe people of Louisinua, to ihe latest hour, will cherish bis name as their greatest

benebtctor.

The culture of Jackson's mind had been much promot

ed by bis services and associations in the war. His discipline of himself as ihe chief in command, bi intimate

relatione with men like Livingston, the wonderlul deeds in which he bre a part, all matured his judgment and

mellowed bis character. Fence came with ita delighte ; once more tbe country rushed forward in tbe development of ite powers; once

more the art of industry healed the wounds that war had

I in tbe constitution authorizing Congress to take the buoi s. ness if Slate Legislatures out oi their bands." Yoi

" ... saaa - a. a -IS.

will ruin us all, cneo a urin partisan inena, "you w in the can ruin your patty and your own prospect." "Providence," lifted bi answered Jackson, "will take care of mc ;" and be per- ' bead, u

had gathered from around, followed his carriage in crowds. All in silence stood near kim, to wish him adieu ; and as

cars stsrted, and be displayed bis gray baira, as be

is hat in token of farewell, you stood around with

nroverrd, too full of emotion tot-peak, in solemn

severed. silence cszinz on bim as be departed, never more to be seen

In proceeding to discharge the debt or the Lnited : .our midst.

States a measure thoroughly American Jackson fbl- jjehold the warrior and statesman, hie work well done, lowed Ibe example ..f b.e predecesrs ; but be followed ; . . , ,he iiermiUMi lo hold converse with his forest..

it with the lull consciousness that he was rescuing the ., , L tround him hosnitablv bis

country Irom tbe artihciaJ system oi nnence which had i i. . l tr. ... .. ,.,

.revailed throughout tbe world; and with bim It formed , "I". . , V ' , .i V. , '7

1 - .. .f . n. I. u kl. li Amntlpan l.alclitlnn u... try OI Uie American CVpiB. SI l lcrIU lUUUgUII, IHDIIT

separate itself more and more eflVctuatly Iron, turope.n uttered, sti 11 rptead the flame of patriotism through the precedents, and develope itself more and more, accord- American breast ; his counsels were still listened to with

mc to the vital principles of our political existence

The disrbnrge of the debt brought with it, of necessi-

iufiicted ; and from commerce and agriculture and manu- ly, a great reduction of tbe public burdens, and brought, r.rinri.1 wlil. vunbed abundantly under tbo free activi- of necessity, into view, the nuestion, bow far America

i. rP ..nroctrnined enternrise. I should follow, ol choice, the old rei

And Jaeknnn returned to Lis own fields and his own hieh duties, under which Europe bad oppressed Ameri

nursiiits. to cherish his plantation, to care for his servants, lea ; or bow far she should rely on her own freedom and

to look after Ms stud, to enjoy the affection of a most enterprise and power, defying the competition, and seekkind and devoted wife, whom he respected with the gen- ing the markets, and receiving the products of the world, liest deference, and loved with an almost miraculous ten- The mind of Jackson on this subject reasoned clearly, .torn... ahd without passion. In the abuses of tbe svsietn of rev-

And thero be utoodjike bne of the mightiest forest enue by excessive imposts, be saw evils which ihe public trees of his own West, vigorous and colossal, sending its mind would remedy ; and, inclining with the whole

The Battle of Abouklr. Having landed Buonaparte and Lis army, Brooyf. lay moored in the form of a orescent, close alonjj shore. His vastly superior force and the. strength of the position (protected towards the northward by dangerous ehoals, and towards the westward by the catles and batteries,) made bim consider that rjoeitioa impregnable. He wrote, on the ttrcngth of this conviction, to Taris, to eay that Nelson purpoeely avoid

ed him. Was he undeceived when llood, in ine eious, making signal that the enemy waa in sight, a cliecr of anticipated triumph burst from every ship in the British fleet that fleet which had swept the as with hurstin" sails for six long weeks in search of Us

formidable foe, and now piwed to the battle as eagerly as if nothing but a rich and easy prize awaited them 1 Nclfon had long been sailing in battle-order, and he now only lay-to in the offing till the rearward ships should come up. The soundings of that dangerous

Bay were unknown to him, but be knew that wnere there was room for a Frenchman to be at anchor, (to swing,) there must be room for an English ship to lie

alongside (on either eide) or bim, and the cioeer uie

better. As his proud and tearless Beel came on, ne

bailml Hood, to ask his opinion as to whether he

reverence ; and, almost elone among ststesmen, be in bis thoui. ;t would be advisable to commence the attack

retirement was in harmony w.lh every onward movement , t hi and eivinr, answer that he longed f li tie. Ilia snraavaiilin ir. fl ilanM at mi at 1 tn at vac at aa I O . . . ... .

. ... , . ;- . : j - r0, he gijrnai for "close battle" new I rum ms masi

neiehrirs; nsuon to uesire to snere our institutions ; nis ' . , , , tn fKja 7lll,ia

should follow, ol choice, the old restrictive system of Mr heard the footsteps of the cominr millions; and his " , . V VTl . "IZT'T ..v.

. r - . i - is tiiA me n ti-iii ar nntrivi vim iiiiur i i n " at a.w

eye discerned in the dim distance the whitening sails that M" 1VU -""" " , , C't', .;eto enliven the w.ler. of the Pacific with the social the fs 1, and anchored by the stern

sonndsof ur successful commerce

Age had whitened bis locks, and dimned his eye, and

spread aronnd him the infirmities and venerable emblems of many Tears of toilsome service t but his heart beat ak

summit to the skies, and rrowins on its nniive son in

wild and inimitable magnificence, careless "of beholders

From all parts of the country he received appeals to Iii political ambition, and tbe severe modesty of his well balanced mind turned them all aside. lie was happy in bis farm, happy n seclusion, happy in hia family, happy wiiliin li!mi '.l. .

Dut the passions of tbe southern Indians were not al

layed bv tbo peace with Great Uriiain ; and foreign emis

saries were still among them, to inflame and direct their malignity. Jackson was called forth by bis country to restrain the cruelty of tbe treacherous and unsparing eminoles. It was in tbe train of the events of this war that he placed tbe American eagle on St. Mark e and above the ancient tower of St, Augustine. Ilia deeds in ihnl war. of themselves, form a monument to human

power, to the celerity of bis genius, to the creative fer tility of his resources, his intuitive sagacity. As Spain

in bis judgment, bad committed, aggression, lie would have emancipated her islands; of ike llavana.be caused

the recnunoissance to be made, and, with an army ol five

thousand men, he stood ready to guaranty her redemption fS'in colonial thraldom. But when peace was restored, and bi. office was ac

complished, bis physical strength sunk under the pesti

lential influence of the climate, and, fast yielding to dis

ease, be was borne in a Inter across the swamps of r lor

ida towards bis home. It was Jackson a character that

be never solicited aid from any one ; bvt be never forgot tho4e who rendered bim service in the hour of need. At

a tlii.'o when all around bim believed b!m near his end,

his wife hastened to his side, and, by her tenderness and

Hortons rare, her patient assiduity, and the soothing in

fluence of devoted love, withheld bim Irom the grave.

He would have remained quiotly at bis home in repose, but that be was privately informed, his good name was

to be attainted by some intended congressional proceed

ins ; he came, therefore, into the presence of the peo

ple's representatives at Washington, only to vindicutc bis

i name; and, when that was achieved, he was once more 1 communing with bis thoughts among the groves of the

Hermitage.

It was not his own ambition which brought dim nsain

to the public view. Tbe affection of Tennessee com

polled bim to resume a seat on the floor of the American

Senate, and, after years of the intensest political strife,

Andrew Juckson was elected 1 resident ot tue United

Suites.

Far Horn advancing his own pretensions, he always

kept them back, and had lor years repressed the solicita tions of bis friends to become a candidate. He felt sen

siüly that he was devoid ol scientinc culture, aud little

familiar with letters; and he never obtruded his opinions

or preferred claim, to place, uut, whenever Ins opinion

wns demanded, lie was always ready to pronounce it; and whenever hi' country invoked hia scrUces, ho did not shrink even from the station which bad been filled by the moet cultivated men our nation liad produced.

Uebold, then, the unlettered man ot tho West, tbe

misht of bis enereelic nature to tbe side of revenue du

ties, he mnde bis earnest but tranquil appeal to the judgment of the people.

The portions or country that sullered most severely from a system of legislation, which, in its extreme character as it then existed, is now universally acknowledged to have been enequal and unjust, were less tranquil ; and rallying on the doctrines of freedom, which made our government a limited one, tbey saw in the oppressive

acts an assumption oi power wincii was nugatory, be-

alongside the second 6hip, thus leaving to Hood the

first. The latter exclaimed to my informant, "l bant God, he has generously left to his old friend still to

lead the van." blowly and majcetically, as Uie even-

cause it was exercised, as tbey held, without authority

from the people. t .

The contest that ensued was the most momentous in

our annals. Tbe greatest minds of America engaged in

the discussion. Eloquence uever achieved sublimer tri

umphs in the American Senate than on those occasions.

The country became, deeply divided ; and the antagonist

elements were arrayed against each other under tonus of clashing authority menacing civil war; the freedom of

Ibe several states was invoked against the power of the United Stales ; and under the organization of a State convention, the reserved rights of the people were sum

moned to display their energy, and balance tbe authority

and neutralize the legislation of the central government.

The Staiea were agitated with prolonged excitement ; the

friends ol freedom throughout the world looked on with divided sympathies, praying that the Union ol the States might be' perpelurl, and also that the commerce of tbe

world might be free. Fortunately for the country, and fortunately for mankind, Andrew Jackson was at the helm of State, tbe re

presentative of the principles that were to allay excitement, and I'd restore the hopes of peace and freedom.

lit nature, by impulse, uy education, by conviction, a

friend to personal freedom by education, political sym

pathies, and the hied habit cf his mind, a friend to the rights of the States unwilling that tbe liberty of tbe States should be trampled under foot unwilling that tbe consli ution should lose its vigor or be impaired, be ral

lied for the constitution t and Ih its name be published to the world,,4THE limns: it mist bk r-RESiRvib." The

words were a spell to hush evil passion, and to remove - tt a a - ,i

oppression, tinder nis guiaing inuuence, the lavored in

terests, wlucn Had struggled to perpetuate unjust legisla

tion, yielded to the voice of moderation and reform ; and

every mind that hnd for a moment contemplated a rup

lure or the states, discarded , it , forever, ihe whole in fluence of the post was invoked in favor of tbe conetilu

tion ; fiom the council chambers of the fathers, w ho

moulded our institutions from the ball where American

independence was declared, tbe clear, loud cry was ut

tered ' the Union : it must be preserved. 1mm every

battle held r! the revolution irom Lexington and linn

ker Hill from Saratoga and Yorktown from the field

of l.utaw from the cane-brakes that sheltered the men

of Marion the repeated, long prolonged echoes came up "ilie Union it must be preserved." From every

valley in our land Irom every cabin on the pleasnht mountain sides from tbe ships at our wharves from the

warmly as in bis youth, and bis courage was as firm as it ing fell, the remainder ot the fleet came on Dencatn a hsd ever been in the dsy of battle. But while bie aflee-l cloud of sail, receiving the fire of the Castle and the

lions were still for hie friends end his country, bis thoughts batteries in portentous silence, only broken by the were already in a better world. That exalted mind, which crash of ppars and the boatswain's whistle, as each in ective life had alwaye had Unity of perception and will; vu furled her Rails calmly as a sea-bird might fold

which in action bad never faltered from doubt, end which win"- and elidln tranquilly onward till she

in council bad always reverted to first principles and gene- founj )icr destined foe. Then her anchor dropped

ral laws,

Infinite.

ence, from conviction

dimmed the lustre of his mind. Froud philosopher! will

you smile to know that Andrew Jackson perused reverently

his Psalter and Prayer book and Bible! Know that

s, now gave itself up to communing with the asl and her gre burst frora her bloody decks with . He w.e a believer ; . from feeluiff, from expert- Tehemencc that showed how sternly it had been re-

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The leading ships passed between the enemy and the shore, but when the admiral came up he led tbe

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Andrew Jackson had faith in the eternily of truth, in the remainder Ol me neer. aiur, u.e seavaru eiutr-nu imperishable power of popular freedom, in the destiniee of doubling on the Frenchman s line, and placing it in a humanity, in the virtue, and capecity of the people, in hie defile of fire. The sun went down aAer Nelson an-

couniry s institutions, in the being and overruling Provi- cborea ; ana ins rearwara snips were oniy guweu denre of a merciful and ever-living God. I through the darkness and the dangers of that formt-

The last moment of his life on earth is at hand. It U I dable Bay by the frenchman's fire flashing fierce wel-

the Sabbath of the Lord; the brightness and beauty of I come as each enemy arrived, and hovered along the summer clothe tbe fields around bim : nature ia in ber I line, coollv scrutinizin!? where he could draw most of

glory; but the subiimest .spectacle on that day, on earth,

wa. the victory of bis unblencbing spirit over death itself.

When he first felt the band of death upon him, " May

my cnemiee, ne cnea, nnu peace : may the liberties of

my country endure lorever.

When his exhausted system, under the excess of pain,

sank for e moment, from debility,4 Do not weep," seid he

to his adopted daughter ; M my sufferings are less than

those of Christ upon tbe cross; for be, too, as a disciple of the cross, could heve devoted himself, in sorrow, for

mankind. Feeling hia end near, he would see all bis

nursling of the wild, the farmer oi the Hermitage, little tents ol the hunter in ur westernmost prairies from the

versed in books, unconnected by science with Ihe tradition of the past, raised by the will of the people to the

highest pinnacle ot honor, to the central post in the civ

ilization of republican freedom, to the station where all

tue nations oi tne cnrtii would watcli nis actions where

his words would vibrate through the civilized world, and

bis spirit be ilia moving star lo guide llie nations. Wim

ixdicv will he oursue? What wisdom will be brin With

luin from the lorest ? What rules of duty will be evolve

liotti the oracles ol Ins own mind f

The man of the West came as the inspired prophet of

tllo Vest : lie came as one tree Irom the bonds ol liereditary or established custom ; bo came with no superior

living minds of living millions of American freomen

from the thickly coming glories of futurity the shoot

went up like the sound t many wateis, "the Union : it

muft be preserved." The friends of the protective ys

lern, and they who bad denounced tbo protective system Ihe statesmen of the TSorth, that had wounded the constitution in their love of centralism the statesmen of the

South, whose minds had carried to its cxtrehie the theo

ry of fetale rights all conspired together ; all breathed r . A - .1- ....

prayers tor tne perpetuity or me union, under tne pru

dent firmness of Jackson under the mixture of justice and general regard for all interests, the greatest danger to our institutions was turned aside, and mankind was en-

but conscience, no oracle but bis native judgment; and, couraged lo believe that our Union, like our freedom, is

true lo ins onzin ana nis eoucation true to tlie conoi- l impensnaDie

tion. and circumstances of bis advancement, he valued

riwlit mnra I Ii i n lion n u lia rxkvorlod Cmtt tlm .if

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established interest to the energy of first principles.

We tread on ashes where the fire is not yet extinguish

cd"; yet not to dwell on bis career as President, were to

The moral of the great event, of tho.e days i. this

that tbe people can discern right, abd will make their

way lo a knowledge of right; that tho whole human

mind, and therefore with it the mind of the nation, lias a

continuous, ever improving existence ; that the appeal

Who csn narrate the terrible events of the d uMe battles of Emuekfaw, or the glorious victory of Tohopeka, where tbe angtr of the (Jenersf against the fdlteiin; was more appalling than the whoop end the rifte of the eiv aje t Who can rhiiy conceive tfto feld of Enolochopco, where the Ceneral, as be attempted 10' draw the sword to cut down a fiying colonel who was leading a regiment from th3 field, broke sgiin the arm which was but newly knrt together; and, quietly reptacift it in the slinp, witfe his commending voice arre.u-d the Might of the troops, and hirrrsetf led them bark to victory I In six short inooths of vehement action, the most terrible Indien wer in our enuets was brought to a close ; the prophets were srfenced? the conwcraled region of the Creek netion reduced. Through scenes of blood, the svrxging hero sought only the psih of peace. Thus Alabams, a part of Afississip.!, a pH.I of hia own Tennessoc, and the highway to the Florida., were bis gift, to the Union. These were bi. tropin.. (J.iiiu. a. extraordinary as military events can call forth, was summoned into action in this rapid, efficient, and most fortunately conducted war. Time would fail were I to track our hero down the watercoursea of Alabama to the neighborhood of Pennacole. How he longed to plant the eagle of hi. country on ita balilcmenls ! Time would fail, end word be wanting, whcie I lo dwell on tbo magicel influence (if his appearance in New Or leans. His presence disipjteJ gloom and d spelled elsrm ; et once he changeJ Iho expect of despair into a confidence of security aod a booe of acq-iiriog glory. Svery man kno'V) tbe tale of tho heroic, sudden, and yet deliberate diring wliieh led him, on the night of the twenty-third of Dece.olx-r, to pre-ipitle his lit'le army on his fes, in tha thick darknes, betöre tht-y grew familiar with their cncampmciif, scaltcri g disfnaj llir-ugh veteran regi menu of KitgUnd, and d Tt-aiin j them, sod arresliug their progress by a far. iofeiior force". Who shall recount the counsel of nrütlence, tho kindling words of eloquence, that gtishfd fiom bis lis to cheer Ins soldiers, Iiis skirmudtfes' nod taula, till that eventful morning when tbe day at Bunker's Hill bad fulfilment in Ilm glorious battle tf New Orlemnj and American independence stood before the world in the imjwsty of victorious power ? These were great deeds fir Ibe nation : for himself he did a greater. Had not Jckon been rertdwnerfhi the vt-hemeni impeluoeity of Ins paserons, for tiis defiance of others authority, aud the unbending vigor of hie" self-

leave out of view tho grandest illustrations of bis mag- from the unjust legislation of to-day must bo made quiet itanimiiv. I ly 'earnestly, perseveiinelv. to the more enlicblened cot

The legislation of the United States bad followed the I leclive reason of to-morrow ; that submission is due to

precedents or the legislation of Luropean monarchies ; the popular will, in the confidence that the people, when

it was tne oiuce oi Jackson to lilt tlie country nut ol the European forms of legislation, and to open lo it a career

resting on Amerv:an sentiment and American freedom

lie would hvt freedom every where freedom under

the restraints of right ; freedom of industry, of com

merce, of mind, of universal action; freedom, unshack

led by restrictive privileges, unrestrained by the thral-

Uom ol monopolies. The unity of his mind and bis consistency were with

out a parallel. With natural dialects, he developed the political doctrines that suited erfcr? iftttrcency. with a

precision and a harmony thai no theorist could hope to

equal. On every subject in politics I speak but n facthe was thoroughly nod profoundly and imtnovHl.lv radi

cal ; and would ait for hours, and in a continued Uow of

remark make the application of bis principles to every interpretation of the constitution. -

His expression of himself was so clear, that bia influ

ence pervaded not our land only, but all America and all mankind. They say thai, in the physical world, the

magnetic fluid is so diflused, that its vibrations are discernible simultaneously in every part of the globe. So it

is with the element ol freedom. And as Jackson devel

oped its doctrines from their source in the mind of bu

uianilr, the popular sympathy was moved and entitled

throughout the world, till hie name grew every where to

be the symbol ot popular power

Himself the witness of the ruthlessness of savage lift,

he planned the removal of the Indian tribes beyond tbe

limits ot the organized stales; and it is t

the res.'jlt of his

determined policy that the region east of tbe Mississippi

has been transferred to the exclusive possession of culti

vated man.

A pupil of the wilderness, his heart was with the

nioers or American lila toward, the setting sou.

American statesman bas ever embraced within his affec

tion, a scheme so liberal for the emigrants as that of Jack

son. He longed to secure lo Ihem, not pra-emptmo ris-li

only, but more than pre-emption rights. He tunged to

invite Juüor to take possession ol the unoccupied fields without money and without price ; with no obligation

except tne perpetual oevotion oi iisell by allegiance to

its country. Under the beneficent influence ot his opin

ions the eone of misfortune, the children of adventure.

I" find their way to the uncultivated west. There in soma

wilderness g'ude, or in the thick forest of the fertile plain, or where the prairies most sparkle with flowers. . i ki . is t i .... .

iney, ne too wira uoe, which seta I Hern the example of industry, may choose their home, mark the extent of their possessions by driving strikes or blazing trees, shelter their log cabin with bough, end turf, and teach the virgin" eril to yield rtifyT tcrthe ploughshare. Theirs shall be the soil, theirs tlie beautiful farms which they teach to bo productive. Come, children of sorrow ! you on whom the Old World frowns; crowd fearlessly to the forests; plant your homes in pnnfidencc, for the country watches over you ; your children grow around you ns hostages, and the wilJfcriiess of your bidding, surrender, it. grandeur of useless luxuriance to the beauty and loveliness of culiure. Vet beautiful and , lovely as is this scene, it stilt by for fall, short of the idcat which lived in the atlectioni or Jackson. His heart was ever with the pioneer, bis policy ever favored Ibe diffusion of independent freebold, throughout tbe laboring classes of the !Vuf. It would be a sin npuinst the occasion, were I to omit to commemorate the deep detotodneps of Jackson lo the cause and to the right, of labor. It wa. for the welfare

ol Hie l.iooring cl.ta-M-n Hint he di-fled all the

luteal hostility

ol its own industry: and he unciai.iilv onnofirl

syslatn which tended to lessen tlnJr reward, ur which exosed thcin to be defrauded of lleir dues. Tho laborers may bend over bij grave will aflectionate sorrow ; for never, in the tide of tune, iirl a statesman exit nx.ro heartily resolved to protect them in their rilna r,

advance their happiness. For their bencfit.be nnnniml

partial legislation ; for thfcir beneCt, he resisted all artificial methods of controlling labor, and subjecting it to carvital. It waa for their bene Et tlint lie loved freedom in all it forms freedom of tbe individual in personal independence, freedom of ihe Stales as separate sovereignties". He never would luden lo counsels whir h tended to

the centralization of power". The tiue American system

storma nf on-

lle lonjed to soiruro to labor the fruit

in error, win amend ineir aoings; mat in a popular cov

ernment injustice is neither to he established by force,

nor to be resisted by force; in a word, that the Union

which was constituted by consent, must be preserved by love.

. It tarely falls to the happy lot of a statesman to receive

such unanimous applause from the heart of a nation. Do

ty to Ihe dead demands that, on this occasion, the course

of measures should not pass unnoticed, in the progress of

wnicn, ins vigor oi cuaracter mosi cieariy appeared, and

bis conflict with opposing parties waa most violent and

protracted.

From his homo in Tennessee, Jackson came to the presidency resolved to lift American legislation out of the forms of English legislation, and to place our lawa on the Currency in harmony with the principles of our government.' fie came to the presidency of the United States resolved to deliver the government from the Bank of the United States, end to restore the regulation of exchanges

to the rigntiui depository oi mat power tlie commerce

oi toe counuy. lie uau uesigned to declare nis views

on this subject in lue inauguial address, but wee persuad ed to relinnuith that purpose, on tbo ground that it be

longed rather to a legislative message. When the period for addressing Congress drew near, it Wae still urged, that to attack the bank would forfeit Iiis popularity end secure

his future defeat. "It is not," he answered, "it is not for

myself that I care. It was urged that baste was untie

cesary, as the bank bad still six unexpended years

chartered existence. ! may die," be replied, "before

another Congress comes together, and I could not rest

quietly in my grave, it I failed lo do what I bold so es senlinl lo the liberty of my country." Ahd his first an

nual message announced to the country that I fie bank was neither constitutional nor expedient. In this he was in

advance of the friends about him, in advance of Congress

and in advance or his party, ibis is no trmo for tbe analysis of measures or the. discussion of questions of po-

"".n timuiiijr - in preseoi uicwiun, we iiavetocon

template tue character of the man

Never, from the first moment of his administration lo the las', wse there a calm in the strife of parties on the subject of the currency, and never, during the whole period

uid ne receue or lauer. Always in advence of bis party

alweve having near him friend, who cowered before the

hardihood of his courage, he himself, throughout all tbe

conte.t, wee unmoved, from the first snggestion of the unconstitutionality of the Bank, to the moment when he himself, first of all, reasoning fiom the certain tendency of its policy, with singular sagacity predicted to unbelieving friend, the coming insolvency of the Institution. The storm throughout the country rose with' unexampled vehemence. His opponents were not satitfied with eddreesing the public, or Congress, or his cabinet; they threw their whole force pmonslly on bim. From alt parts men pressed around him, urging him, entreating him to bend. Congress wes flexible ; many of bia personal friends faltrred ; the irnpt luous swelling wave rolled on, without one sufficient obstacle till it reached bis presence; but as it d.ished in its highest fury et bie feet, it broke before his firmness. The commanding majesty of his will expelled bie opponente end revi'ed his friends. He, himself, had' er proed consciousness that bis will wss iodomitable. Standing .over the rocks of the Rip Kaps, and looking out upon the ocean, u Providence," said he to a friend, ProviJenc ms change my determination ; but man no more can do rt than he can remove these Hip Raps, which bate misled the tolling ocean fruft the beginning of lime." ".And Iholigh a panic waspreading through the land, and Ihe whole credit system ss it then exiteJ was crumMii g tj pieces and crashing around bim, he stood erect like a massive column, w hich the beaj a of falling ruins could not break, nor beud nor sway frora its filed foundation. At ibis point Mr. Bancroft turned lo e-J dress the Mayor of ihe city of YVeahington ; but finding bim not present, he proceeded. People of the District of Columbia : I should fail of a duy oo tb's occasien. if I did not give utterance to your sentiment of gratitude which followed General Jackson

that fire on himself. The Bellerophon, with eallant

recklessness, fastened on the gigantic Orient, and was

soon crushed and scorched into a wreck by the terri

ble artillery of batteries more than double the number of her own. But, before she drifted helplessly to lee

ward i she had done her tcork the French admiral's s-hip was on fire ; and, through the roar of battle, m

whisper went that for a moment paralyzed every ea

ger heart and hand. During that dread pause the"

tight was suspended the very wounded ceased to

family once more, and he sDake to them.nne h. n in .nr.l. trroan yet the burning ship continued tp fir$ broadr

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of tenderaef-s end ellection. If is two little grand children 6iacs irom ner naming aecua, ner gaiiam crew aione were absent at Sunday school. He asked for them, and unawed by their approaching fate, and shouting their

as they came he prayed . for them, and kissed them ; and own requiem. At length with the concentrated roar blcfsed them. His servants were then admitted: tbey of a thousand battles the explosion came; and thö gathered, some in his room, and some on the outside of column of flame that shrt-upward into the reif Ay tbe house, clinging to the windows, that they might gsxe for a moment rendered isible the whole surrounding

and hear. And thai dying man, thus surrounded, in a scene, from the red flairs aloft to the reddened decks guh of fervid eloquence, epoke with inspiration of God. below the wide hore,with all its swarthy crowds

of the Redeemer, of salvation -through tlie atonement, of

immortality, of heaven, l or be ever thought that pure and undefiled religion wes the foundation of private bap-

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pincss anu tue ouinarit oi republican institutions. Having spoken of immortality in perfect consciousness of his own

sppioacbing end, be bade them all farewell. M Dear chil

dren," such were his final words, "dear children, servant!,

hnd friends, I tiust to meet yon all in heaven, both white

and black all, both white and black." And having borne bis testimony to immortality he bowed his mighty head, and without a groan, the spirit of the greatest man of his

age escaped to the bosom of hie God. i:r t. L - , - .. ..

in uie, uis career uau pecn ijkc tne Diaze oi tne eun in

and the far-off glittering sea, with the torn ami dismantled fleets. Then darkness and silence camo again, only broken by the shower of blazing fragments in which that brave ship fell upon the waters. Till that moment Nelson was ignorant how the battle went. He knew that every man was doing his duty, but he knew not how successfully ; .he had been wounded in the forehead, and found his way unnoticed to the deck in tlie suspense of tlie coming explosion. Its lijrht was a fitting lamp for eye like his to read

He saw bia own proud flag still floating every-

by.

where, and at the same moment his crew recognized

the fierceness of its noon day glory; his death was lovely their wounded chief. Ihe wild cheer with which

as the mildest sunset of a summer's evening, when tbe sun they welcomed him was drowned in the renewed roar

goes down in tranquil beauty without a cloud. To tbe majestic energy of an indomitable will, he joined heart

cepable of the purest end most devoted love, rich in the trnderest affections. On the bloody battle field of Topoeca, he saved an infant that clunj to the breast of its

dying mother: in the stormiest moment of bis Presidency, at the imminent moment of decision, be paused in bis wav

to give goou counsel io a poor supplicant mat had come

up lo him for succor. Of the strifes in which he was engaged in hia earlier life, not ore sprang- from himself.

but in every case be became involved by atending forth ae the champion of the weak, the poor, and the defenceless,

to shelter ibe gentle egeinst oppression, to protect tbe

of Uie artillery , JanU Uie light continued until near dawn.

Morning rose upon an altered scene. The Run Lad

set upon as proud a fleet as ever sailed from the gay shores of France ; torn and blackened bulla now only marked tlie position which they had then occupied;

and where their admiral's ship had been, the blank sea sparkled in tlie sunshine. Two ships of the line) and two frigates escaped, to be captured soon after

wards ; but within tho Bay tue tri-color was flying on board the Tounant alone. Aa the Theaeas approached to attack her, attempting to capitulate, she hoisted a flag of truce. "Vour battle-flarr, or none,"

emigrant against the avarice of the speculator. His gene- I wa3 t" Bteri replyi -s her enemy rounded to, and th

rous soul revolted against the barbarous practise or duels, matencs giimmcreu uer tier ne oi guns, swwiy . . ...... r M . i - .1 ii i .1.1

and by no man in tbe land bee eo many been prevented,

The sorrows of those thet were neer to bim went deeply

into his soul ; ana at the anguish of ihe wife whom he loved, the orphans whom he adopted, he would melt into

tears, and weep and sob like a child,

ISo man in private life so possessed the hearts of all around him : no public man of this century ever returned

to private life witn sucb an abiding mastery over the affections of the people.- No man with truer instincts received American ideas; no man expressed them so completely, or eo boldly, or so sincerely. He was ae sincere a man as ever lived. lie was wholly, always, and

altogether sincere and true.

and reluctantly like an expiring hope that pale flag fluttered down from her lofty spars, and tbe next that floated there was the banner of Old England.

From the Salem (Wetl Jersey J Standard. A Sccuc in Kcal Lite. When the bard cf Avon denominated the world a stage, and the people its actors, he merely spoke with his usual truthfulness.' How many Utile dramas are every day enacted in private life that need no touches of romance; no gas lights and tinsel to give them absorbing interest : but which become obvious frora the fact that all are too deeply engaged in the parts

do. He united oersonal courane änd mor.i lutir "w n P'V w S"-e P' VT Ke imeresi sum

r I riorir xn vii im t ri -w a it vnniw vr v s-i vu- m

ViVtll V aUW VVI lUWv WA kUlt A1VJL U VV Om

beyond any man of whom history keeps a record. Before the nation, before tbe world, before coming ages.

be stands lortn tbe representative,' for his generation of the American mind. And tbe teeret of bis greatness is this by intuitive conception he shared and poesessed all the creative ideas of his conntry and hie time.

He expressed them with dauntless intrepidity; he enforced them with an immoveable will ; he executed them with en electric power that attracted and t vayed the American people. The nation, in bis time, had not one great thought, of which he wee not thd boldest end clearest expositor. History does not describe the man that equalled him in firmness of nerve. Not danger, not en ermy iu bettle errey, not wounde, not wido spread clamor, not ege, not the anguish of disease, could impair in the least degree, the vigor of his steadfast mind. The heroes of antiquity would have contemplated with awe the unmatched hardihood of his character ; and Napoleon, had be possessed bis disinterested will, could never have been vanquished. Jackson hever wes vanquished. He wes alwaye fortunate. He conquered the wilderness ; be conquered the savage; he conquered the bravest veterans trained in the battle fields of Europe; he conquered every where in statesmanship ; end. when desth came lo get the mastery over him, be turned that last enemy aside as tranquilly as he hid done the feeblest of his adversaries, end escaped from earth iu tbe triumphant consciousness of immortality. His body has iu fit resting jilace in the great central valley of the Mississippi; his spirit rests "npon our whole territory ; it hovers over the vales of Oregon, and guards.

in advance, tae frontier of the Del Norte. The fires of

party spirit are quenched at bia grave. Ilia faults and frailties heve perished. Whatever of good be bae done lives, and will live forever.

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observed, but generally eo disconnected as to cause but a passing remark. One of these fragments from a life replete with misfortune and poverty has recent! been tbe occasion of come conversation in this town and we give it to our readers as it was told to us : A family of Catholic Germans, consisting of the parents and four small children, settled in Salem last year and from disinclination to permit their wants to be made known, existed through the winter in the most abject poverty. About the commencement of Spring the husband sickened and died, and the family thereby became reduced to the last extremity of wretchedness. The grief of the widow at her bereavement was intense, and for a time she refused to be comforted. Alone, in a foreign land, and (with tlie exception of her helpless children) surrounded by none but strange faces, it seemed as if the last crowning misfortune had rilled her cup of misery to the brim. As there is no Catholic Cemetery in this neighborhood, the Friends, with' their usual tindnesa, offered the body of the deceased a resting place in their burying ground. This was gladly accepted, but av new difficulty arose. The widow, stongly imbued with the principles of the sect to which r?be had always belonged, would not consent to its interment without the formula of the Catholic burial service. There being no priest of her persuasion at band, she applied to a worthy citizen to perform tlie ceremony ; but he replied that be could not conscientiously act in the matter. Misconstruinghis scruples, ehe exclaimed with earnestness" Ob. do ! The Tope will absolve you 1" He endeavored to prevail upon her to appy to some one else, but without effect. At length he as-Ied, if it waa not, under the circumstances, entirely requisite that a priest perform the ceremony, why being a good Catholic could not act on Uie occasion T After a few moment's consideration, during which she appeared to be forcibly struck by the suggestion as something that had not before occurred to her, she consented to undertake tlie sad office. An eye-witness of the interment and accompanying ceremony speaks of the scene as most affecting. A number of fellow-countrymen of the deceased had collected round the grave, when tlie widow, with a sense of duty amounting to enthusiasm, and rising above the intense grief which had convulsed her, stood forward, and taking the earth upon a epade proceeded to consecrate it. She then went through wits' . the solemn burial service of tins Catholic Church in a manner.so impressive as to bring tears from tie eyes' of many present long unused to the melting mood. The ceremony was coueluded by tlie widow'slTering an appropriate and extremely eloquent prayer for" the rest of kr departed husband; and !ie turned fromthe grave for her desolate home and starring children, apparently with every epark of hope extinguished iu

hit iwsuin. But it is said that the darkest cloud has ever a bright star near itt and she found that her home waa to be desolate and' Jie'r children etami! no longer. He who hearkens to the cry of the widow and the" fatherless had raised them up friends in the hour of, their extremest need. The death of the husband and' the peculiar circumstances attending his funeral, directed public attention to the family, when its destitute . condition became known and immediate relief afforded.