Jasper Banner, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1855 — A Valuable Belie. [ARTICLE]

A Valuable Belie.

One of the editors of the Stateman and Democrat, while in the Patent Office, at Washington, the other day, found the letter of Andrew Jackson, declining to have his body entombed in the sarcophagus of the Roman Emperor. From it he makes the following extract: “1 have read the proceedings of the presentation, by you, of the sarcophagus, and the resolutions passed by the I board of Directors, so honorable to my fame, with sensations and feelings more easily to be conjectured than by me expressed. The whole proceedings call for my most gratefull thanks, which are hereby tendered to you, and through you to the President and directors of the National Institute. , But with the warmest - Wsationsthat can inspire a grateful heart, I must decline accepting the honor intended to be bestirred. 1 -CANNOT CONSENT THAT MY MORTAL BODY SHALL BE LAID IN A REPOSITORY PREPARED FOR AN EMPEROR OR A KING. MY REPUBLICAN FEELINGS AND PRINCIPLES FORBID IT; the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. Every monument erected to perpetuate the memory of our heroes and statesmen, ought to bear eyi ; dunce of the economy and simplicity of our republican institutions and the 'plainness of our republican citizens; who are the sovereigns ofourglorious ■Unioß, and whose virtue is to perpetuateit. TRUE VIRTUE CANNOT EXIST WHERE POMP AND PARADE ARE THE GOVERNING PASSIONS. It can only dwell with the people—the great laboring and proil ucing cl ass—-that Jorm the bone and sinew of our Confederacy.”