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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1845
Tea Ferniest. Oasvon.—Our first page, this week,
is occupied by the Funeral'Oration delivered by the Hon.
13C5JAMIN F. Brrian, at New -York. It is the best
tribute to the Old Hero we have seen, and does credit to
B.'s head and heart. The funeral obsequies—of
Ulrich this was a part—were performed in magnificence,
and Constituted an imposing and impressive ceremonial.'
sr-President Van Buren and Governor Wright, with
many distingnisheti members of the Administration, were
present, and the appearance was greeted by warm de-,
bonstrations of popular esteem. The procession, which
Was 'estimated at 50,000, Was three hours and fifteen
Inientes in passing a tivOn voila. The address was
.Nreildbed with a very limited notice.
A B, ti3 zlv or Lira ii Ctrtss.—lfit Were not that we
find the " t h o f the following acconnt In amender 'reach
;xi for by the mvecta Se editor of one of the most respect
hie Magazines our conn:ty can boast—we mean the
"New York Knickerbocket"- - we would not have be
lieved it. Even now, for the honor a human nature,
end especially the Boston portion of it—we trust this
. ,
~. Charcoal sketch" has been largely embellished. universal heart ; It promotes the formation of
-
" The following affecting sketch comes to us in the - a true national di° ratter; it softens the asperi
hand-writing of a correspondent in Boetow.th whose pen ie.s of party ;it incites to a virtuous emulation.
our readers have been indebted for many a pleasant corn- lieN l , in purity and m,?etness, to the thanks
girivg which we owe the God who gave, and
in 'cation. We call upon our friend for the name of
guided, aud.sustained them, is; the. feeling of
the prosecutor in the case referred to. We desire to as 1
sist in handing it down to perpetual infamy : There are !
1 grateful reverence we should over cherish to
wards those w, 4 to are the instrument: of His
scenes necsning sitn9st daily In F ur Police Court that goodness. To th" claims of our great ine;.l, of
I are well worthy of more than a passing record, if but for every age and - thus. of every sect and party,
the glimpses they give us of poor humanity under some let us then be faithful. Let history transmit
slits more melanchOly phases. A week or two since, I to other generations, the tore of their lives;.
happened to be present when as Irishwoman was brought I let the canvass and the inatide perpetuate the
before one of oar police justices on a charge of stealing. image of their forms ; let prwttry and music
She was young, had a pleasing and rather a handsome breathe forth their names in hyton.s 3lld khartno
countenance, was clad very tidily, and altogether looked vies ; let the united voice of their countrymen
like bee who had seen better days, and still in her pover. echo their praises to the remotest eta Tee - -so
my preserved some of the pride of that more happy period. that wherever an American footstep sha ll trNad,
In her arms she held a little boy of some three or four or the lever of American liberty be found, there,
greatness . shaq abide—
joy of all the
years, with a profusion of light curly hair clustering
too the memory of their
about his temples, but-whose pale cheek and sunken a beauty and an excellence--the
lustrous eyes told too plainly that Disease and pinching earth ! The facts. and incidents which belong
Want had even thus early marked him for their own. to the romantic and eventf
ul
.life of Andrew
the Jack s on are to numerous to allow net, on the
The mother was charged with stealing bread from the present occasion, to attempt. any extended bin
door of a grocer. The complainant a hard featured,shresvd < graphical sketch. After a brief notce of his
looking man, with a long nose, and sharp, restless eye, early life. 1 shall, therefore, confine myself to
was called to the stand. He told a straight-forward, cir- a general view of such portions of his more ac
comstantird story, the substance of which was, that his tive career, as seem to me heat calculated to
baker was in the habit of leaving bread for him at the Illustrate the prominent features of his charac
shop door before it was opened in the morning. For se- I ter, and hismore important services to his coon
vend days past he had missed part of it ; sometimes a try. He was the son of respectable parents,
whole roll, sometimes more, and once or twice only part belonging to the most hardy, virtuous and Use
of a roll. In order to put a stop to these depredations fat of all orders of society—the greet middle
on his property ;he one morning lay in. wait for the class. His parents, as is well known, were
natives of Ireland, though some of their ances
trespasser; when, about daylight, he saw the prisoner
tore were originally from
_Scotland. ;They
come out of her miserable under ground abode, leading
l
her sickly boy by the band. Passing by where the wit-
emigrated to South Carolina in 1765. -p i e was
h
new was concealed, she stopped at his door, took up a
born at the Waxaw settlement, in that'iState,
on 1767. He a
v H i n e a d h i e e e d n o n s S a u r
end
roll, and breaking it in two pieces, gave one to her boy, , day, l
t e h e l 5 8 1 thh of
day a March.
of J
ti
and restored the other to its place. She then turned to the good old age of more than ' 7B ear l : re
back, when the complainant seized, and hurried her ins- taming to the last, in a remarkable de y gree; his
mediately to the watch house; taking care, in the mean . extraordinary intellectual power's, Hs ardent
time, to snatch from the half famished boy the moiety of affections, and his deep interest in the happy.
•the loaf he was so eagerly devouring. The witness here ness of his friends and the welfare of his coon-
produced the piece of bread, and pointed to the marks of
the child's teeth, in part corroboration of his testimony.
After hearing the story, the judge turned to the woman
and asked her if she had any thing to say in denial of
of the truth of the charge. " Nothing, nothing, your
Honor," replied the poor woman, laying her face on her
boy's head, and,straining him to her bosom, while her
body swayed ER and fro in the agony of shame and grief;
" I am guilty, guilty ! But it was not for rneself I took
it. Ab, Sir! I'm a poor lone woman, and Work hard
when I tan get work. But for the last ten days I have
had nothing to du, and my money was all gone ; and
since yesterday morning we hadn't had a morsel to eat.
am used to it meself ; but I could'nt hear little Dennis
I cry for bread, and not give it to him !" The Judge was
evideutlitouched by the woman's distress, and turning to
the complainant, asked him if, under the circumstances,
he should persist in the prosecution. "-If' said he "you
will withdraw your complaint, it will be pc:for/Mug an
act of mercy which I should be very glad to second."
Vain appeal Though the eye of every man in court was
fixed upon the prosecutor with looks that pleaded fur hie
victim, no emotion stirred the repose of his hard and ad
fish features. He kept no account with Mercy. The
right of property had been violated, in his eyes the most
sacred of human rights, and he claimed the penalty of
the law. "This is a cruel case," said the the Judge;
"and really, i feel extremely iothto punish thispoor wo•
man for an set so venial, crime though it be in the eye
or -the law. Bet although this plaintiff might have pur
sued a very different course, without doing any injury to
the muse of justice, or impairing in the leastdegree what
ever title he may have to the love and respect of his
fellow men, still my duty in them.. in imperative; the
the law allows me no discretion. I would it were other
wise. Ptit her down for one " month do the house of
Correction Mr. Clerk." " Oh, Dennis, Dennis !" exclaim
ed the poor woman, in a paroxysm of grief, as she strain
okher boy still closer to her bosom, and bathedlim with
tears; "what'll you do 7)020, my poor child, when you've
no mother to look after you, and keep you from that
harm's way I" " Don't grieve yourself about that, Mrs.
Mc Ginnie," said one of her own country women, who
had hitherto stood in the back ground, but now came
forwerd, and took the prisoner by the hand ; " don't grieve
for the likes of that Ma'am ; I'll take care of your boy ;
and while Pee a platy in the pot, he shall have his
month falL "God bless you!" exclaimed the mother,
winging the woman's hand ; " try the holy Virgin
smile an you !" "Come, step along' Maras," said the
offsier, as he, put the minim ax in his pocket: "don't
stand growling here ; the cart is waiting for, you."
The wcaUdaloirly and mechanically obeyed, followed
by little Dennis, with one hand clasped in that °lbis new
• friend,and the other Pulling at the skirts of his mother's
dress. Arrived at the outer door, the little fellow was
assigned *with many tears" to the care of his kind pro.
lector; the mother went alowly and droopingly down
steps, without again lifting her head, or lookiiag beck
aping' her half weeping, half Wondering boy ; and: in a
iitOment lane she *slanted in the covered heanse.like
wagon that was to carry her aerate the " bridge of sighs"
to the felon's home."
THE BRADFORD :REPORTER
I &
The Funeral Oration,
Delivered by non. B. F. Buller of New
nournfdl but pleasant, friends and fellow
citizens, is the service in which we are en
gaged. Andrew Jackson upon chose bed of
sickness and suffering have been sci intently
fixed the filial and solicitous regards of the
millions of America, is no more.' Hie great
soul has ascendedffo its Author; his venerable
form has sunk into the grave. To iliat grave,
with swelling hearts and tearful eyes, and sad
funeral rites, a nation is repairing. We have
come to it to-day. While we linger within its
sacred precincts, the praises of the Hero we
reverence, the Magistr 4e-we honored, and the
man we loved, rise instinctively to our lips.—
To their free utterance, affection prompts, duty
enjoins, nature compels us. It is fitting, it is
right, that such tributes should be paid to those,
who in council or in camp, have advanced the
gNory of their country and the welfare of their
kind, TheAustage thus bestowed is at least
disinterested. For the dead who are its ob
jects, rosolosible alike to praise and to blame,
can make no return to the living who proffer
it. it exert,: a humanizing influence on the
try. The peculiarities of his character are in
harmony with his extraction. The martyr
blcod of Scotland, blended with that bf the
Emerald Isle. and modified by the residence
of his ancestors in her genial clime, coursed in
his veins ; and no man, probably, eter lived,
"who united, in a higher degree, the firmness
and perseverance of the one race with the quick
and ardent temperament of the other. 'Depriv
ed, soon after his birth, of his father; his eldest
11 - rother slain during the war of the revolution.
by British troops, himself eninpellel. by the
approach of the enemy, to abandon. at the age
14. the academy at which he had been
placed; freely offering himself, with his sole
surviving brother, to the military service of his
country ; both soon after captured by the ene
my ; both assaulted and wounded, because
scorning to submit to personal indignity ; the
other of the two brothers dying of the wounds
thus received ; his mother soon after pressed
by -fatigue and grief into an untimely grave ;
was ever an ardent and susceptible youth plac
ed in circumstances more likely to make a
deep and tasting impression on his character ?
" he child," (to use the words of a great poet
of our own time,) " the child is father of the
man.". And when we consider the baptism of
blood by which Andrew Jackson, in the spring
time of his youth, was dedicated to the service
of his country, can we wonder at the undying
faithfulness, or the burning zeal, with which,
from youth to age, he presented himsell a liv.
ins sacrifice at her altar ? Passing over the
intermediate space, we find him, at the age of
twenty-one, established in the practice of the
law, in what was' then one of the back settle
ments of North Carolina. It was a region . of
' restless activity, of stirring interest, of wild ad
venture. The scanty population, thinly scat
tered over an extensive territory, was constant
ly exposed to the inroad" of powerful tribes of
Indians, still the occupants of its primeval for
ests. They bad been subjugated; during the
war of the Revolution, by the American arms,
but were ever ready, when occasion tempted,
to surprise the incautious traveler, and to cut
off the unprotected family. In the' border con
diets which grew out of this condition of the
territory, Jackson renewed the instructions in
the drill and muster which he received in boy
hood, and added to them lessons' to the war
fare of the . lndiane,,beth destined' to be after
wards employed on 'a-yeider theatre and for in
finitely greater ends. Intestine feuds also dis
tracted the inhabitantri.many,iof their number
were rude in ruanneretkratutricle ofthem.reck
less in character; the,ceitlec on of nebta, by
force of law, .was a ;,litskof;litriculty 'and of
danger, and the lawyer arti undertook it need
ed 'activity of body as Welt **pi intellect, firm
ness of nerve as welk.rur -p fps% vigor of
arm as well as of ewlp sot ding. Jackson,
bringing with him an Res reputation; was
immediately employed i nrifes; of . this son;
and he entered on the d' arge of his pules.;
atonal duties with the a e promptitude and
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energy, so often displayed by him in matters
of higher and more extended interest. In these,
and other professional efforts of the like nature,
i
lie s beset by opposition, and embroiled in
collistene,- which might have proved fatal to
one less honest and courageous ; but his man
lyl bearing and his inflexible pursuit of justice,
in' despite of every impediment, establish his
reputation ; and professional success is the
necessary consequence. Another result is,
that be becomes universally known as one of
the first citizens, in point of character and in
fluence, of the young community, now rapidly
increasing in numbers, and about to be organiz
ed, with the consent and by the cession of
North Carolina, as a Territory of the United
States. This even takes place in 1790, and
Andrew Jackson receives from George Wash
ington, then President of the United States, his
first appointment to office—that of Attorney of
the United States for the. new Territory. In
the short apace of six y ears the territorial go
vernment is superseded by the admission into
the Union of the State of Tennessee. Jackson'
is a member of the Convention which forms
the constitutton, and he takes an active part in i
the preparation of that instrument. 'lt contains
some peculiar provisions which deserve a mo
ment's notice. The members of the Legisla
ture are chosen for two years, and meet only
biennially, except when called together on ex
traordinary occasions. This arrangement is
founded on the idea, while annual meetings of
the legislative body are indispensable in coon
tries having a hereditary executive, the like
necessity does not exist where the executive is
chosen by, and responsible to, the people ; and
that the people themselves are the beet conser-i
raters of their rights. The bill of rights in this
Constitution is one of the most liberal and
comprehensive adopted by any of our States.'
It asserts, in the strongest terms, the inherent
and uncontrollable sovereignty of the people,
and th-ir right to instruct, as well as to peti
tion, theirrepresentatives ; it denounces per
petuities and monopolies as contrary to the
genius of a tree State ; and it forbids the grant
of any hereditary emoluments, privileges, or
honors. From the subyquent life of Jackson,
i t is Cagy to see that he must have assented,
with a ' , warm heart, to all these provisions.--
Immediuteli on the admission of the new State
into the Union, Jackson is chosen one of her
delegates in the [rouse of Representatives ; and
the next year he is appointed one of her Sena
tors in Congress. He nerves in this distingu
ished body, over which Thomas Jeffersob was
then the presiding officer, until 1799, and thus
enjoys opportunities of form'ng a personal
friendship with a statesman and political phi
losopher, with whoie sentiments his own en
tirely concur, and for whose genius he cherishes
the highest admiration. In 1799, he retires' by
voluntary resignation from the honorable post.
Most unexpectedly to himself, he is immediate
ly appointed a Judge of the Supyme Court of
his Slate, a station which he accepts with re
luctance, and from which he withdraws at an
early day. He does so with the design, which
he then supposes he may be permitted to ac
complish, of spending the residue of his days
in the quiet retreat of a country life. Little
does he dream of.the brilliant destiny that
awaits him. In the mean time, as another
preparation for that destiny, the field officers
of one of the divisions of the Tennessee militia,
no strangers to his lofty patriotism, or his
martial spirit, had chosen him without consul
tation with, or notice to him, their Major Ge
neral. This commission hey retaitie - d until
1814, when he received the like appointment
in the army of the United States. We are
now to contemplate Andrew Jackson in the
new and - conspicuous theatre in which he
attracted the regards not only of America. but
of the world. Rallying to his•standard at the
first moment when the action of the govern
ment enabled him to do so, the gallant spirits
of his division. 'he dedicates their persons and
his own to the service of the nation. From
November. 1812, to the cessation of the hos
tilities, he is constantly employed in creating
and leading the armies, fighting the battles,
and vanquishing the enemies of his country.
It is not my purpose to enter into the details
of his military exploits. Of all and of each it
may be said that in' each and in all he acquitted
himself as no other man but Andrew Jackson
could have done. With his first touch of the
marshal's truncheon; the hand of one borne to
command at will the energies of his troops, to
intule into them his own daring spirit, and
successfully to cope in any and every field
with the most skilful and Courageous of his
enemies, is evidently seen. Throughout his
whole military career he exhibits in felicitous
combination all the great qualities of a great
commaeder—comprehensiveness and accuracy
of view, genius to devise, skill and courage to
execute, coolness and self-possession in every
emergency, perfect command of his resources,
sagacity' to discover and ability to defeat the
plans of his opponents. In his campaign
against the Greeks, so formidable by their ,
numbers, their obstinate bravery, and their
proficiency in all the arts of sagage warfare he
adds to the hardihood, the patience and the
the self-denial of a Ilannibal—the vigor t thee'
celerity, the'succese of a Cwsar. When he
plants, upon his own reeponsibility, the Amen>
can Eagle on the forts of Pensacola,statesmen
see that the instincts of a heart and wilide
voted to the public weal, 'can anticipate the
rules of public law ; and the nation recognize
and honor the clearness of his judgment not
less than the pm:aptitude e.fa energy of his
conduct. In his compand at New Orleans,
from his arrival at the beleaguered city until
his departure froittlt, we seem to follow some
heaven-appointed and heaven-assisted warrior
of the aecieotilispensation, rather than a chief
tain of modern times. Such superhuman
Such. assumption and exercise of pow
est, Such chisalroul daring and cogpummate
address in striking the fi rst blow in thTunequal
conflict;' such cautious preparations for the
'final. struggle; such perfect success , in its
triumphant issue; such frightful havoc in the
troupe of the enemy and such shnostmtracu•
haus preservation ,of his own ; . , who, in these
things,:thies not lee the' band of God, On
York.
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QVARTER."
and by his energy and renown our national
character is raised to a height of glory never
before attained by the American Republic. In
the meantime Jackson has been involved at
hoot,. in Conflicts protracted and severe. Fired
with the love of democratic liberty, end filled
with zest for the constitution, he pursed sys
tems of policy, and adopts s course of measures
which bring on violent collisions with the in
terests, passions and prejudices of men in dif
ferent quarters of tne Union. In the midst of
the outhrusts of party, produced by these col- ,
lision, he is re-elected by a vote of thtee to one
over all the other candidates, although the
State of his nativity, formerly foremost in his
support, withholds her approving voice. Op
position to him is followed; on her part, by
resistance to the laws; the integrity of the
Union . is threatened ; and the nation is exposed
to the dangers of a , civil *sr. 'Now* is, that
Andrew . Jackion,•soperior tithe &eget, and
equal to the remedy It requites, by
agency of an instrument ordained, prepared,
and guided by Himself ?' 1 must content my
self with the briefest possible reference to the
war with the Seininoles, in 1817-18. If the
exploits of Jackson' in this campaign had con
stituted his whole title to military renown,
they would have been amply sufficient to place
him high on the roll of fame. How does it
enhance the estimate of his former achieve
ments, when it is constlered that the Seminole
war is scarcely thought of in the comparison;
and that Jackson is seldom named in connec
tion with it, except by those who refer to it
(or the purpose of denouncing him for the exe
cution of Ambrister and Arbuthnot ! Having
ponied this incident, I fie! it right to state my
entire conviction, that in this. as in every other'
act of his public life, he proceeded under a
deep sense of whit he believed to be the in
junction of duty ; and duty was ever to him
as the voice of Heaven. "My God would not
have soiled on me," (was hie characteristic
remark, when speiking of this affair to him
who addressed you)" had I punished only the
poor, ignorant savages, and spared the white
men who set them on." The hour has at
length come when Jacksjon believed he may a
second time retire to rural occupations, without
danger of any further call to engage in the
service of the Union. The nation is at peace
with all the world ; the Indian tribes have been
reduced to submission ; peace reigns in all
our borders, and tranquillity throughout the
land: He resigns his commission in the army ;
reluses the appointment of minister to Mexico,
conferred on him by President Monroe, not
only because he desires no office of emolument
or honor, but because he will not countenance,
by his' presence at the court of iTIMBIDE, the
substitution of O'monarchy in place of a repub
lic, nor the mean by which it has been effec
ted. Other reasons concur, to enforce the
step he has taken. Incessant toil in the various
duties of his command—exposure to the hard
ships of military service in the warm climates
of the South. and especially in the swamps and
morasses of Florida—have undermined his
constitution; and retirement seems as needful
to the preservation of his own life, as it is to
the happiness of those who have so long been
denied the pleasure of his society. He does
not deem it inconsistent with this feeling, to
accept the office of Senator in Congress, again
conferred, on him by hie beloved Tennessee ;
for this honorable and comparatively easy ser
vice will still leave him, the greater portion of
the year. an inmate of the Hermitage. But
his mission is not yet ended,
" Peace bath her victories,
No less renowned than war."
And many such victories he is yet to win.—
By spontaneous uprisings of the people. in his
own and other states, he is presented to the nit
:ion as i candidate for the highest trust.—
Th.ough not first invested with the dignity.
his three competitors, each long and honorably
identified with the civic service of the Union,
lare left behind him in the race. In due course
,of time another contest ensues. Ile is raised
to the Chief 141a0tracy by more than two to
one of the electoral rotes. In surveying, from
this high eminence, the field of duty to which
he has been called, he perceives that with ma
ny foreign Stales we have unsettled subjects
of dispute. growing out of claims to justice
tong deferred, for spoilations of our commerce,
during that reign of lawless violence which, in
the beginning of this century, disgraced and
barbarized the.maritime wars of Europe. Ile
sees that unless speedily adjusted, they tt ill
expose us to the alternative either of sacrificing
our national honor or of vindicating by the
sword of our unquestionable rights. He re.
solves that this state of things shall not con
tinue ; that no needless delay, no evasive sub
terfuge shall be allowed; that he will proceed,
with all possible despatch, in the prosecution
of his duty, "asking nothing that is not right,
and submitting to nothing that is wrong;" and
he believes that if this course be steadily and
wisely pursued, peace will be preserved, and
justice be obtained. The result shows the sa
gacity of his conclusions. One after another,
treaties are made and ratified by which these
• objects of irritation, so grave and so danger
ous, are all, at length, happily disposed of.—
In one case' only is there any serious delay ;
but this is the most important of them all ; for
it is our ancient ally, the beautiful, the brilliant
France of our own Lafayette, that neglects the
performanCe of her duty. Jackson does not
hesitate or waver in his course. Ile deals
with the greatest and most honored as he
would have dealt with the weakest and mos
humble ; he sees to it that while the respec,tf ii
courtesies due to so distinguished a delinquent
are sedulously observed, no jot or tjtle or the
national honor is lost or comprothyted. In the
end justice is secured ; the faithlif treaties vin
dicated ; the peace of Empiyeti preserved ; and
France herself. on a full s understanding of his
course, does honor, with characteristic chivalry
and grace, to the • , ,,tife de fer"—the_ iron will
of the stern oll,tfian.
..His name :through Europe rings,
Fillitureach mouth with envy or with praise,
And all her jealous monarchs with amaze,
, A 4 rumors loud that daunt remotest kings;
his firmness and his wisdom, achieves.the
moat splendid and most enduring of his victo
ries; averting from his country the stain and
curse of fraternal blood ; and giving .to his
memorable pledge, " OCR FEDERAL UNION*- ,
IT SIM DR PRESERVED," the strength of a fix
ed resolve, and the majesty of a perpetual
truth. While the plaudits which now rise
from every quarter of the Union are yet sound
ing in his ears ; when by mere inaction in re
spect to other sources - of political convulsion,
he 'could have secured for the remainder ulhis
official term a larger degree of personal repose
and general approbation, than was ever enjoy
ed by any of his predecessors, he is again
compelled, as he believes, to a clear and tnexo.
table duty, - whose execution he well knows
will revive anew the animosity of party, in
volve in bitter and painful conflict the remnant
of his public life, and bring upon himself, per
haps, the censures of many whom he loves. and I
with whose good opinions he would not light
ly
part. Inferior minds would have shrunk
from this new trial. So did not Jackson.—
What efforts were made to drive him from his
purpose—with what inflexible' resolution he
adhered to his position, and how the people
sustained him in this conflict also, is it not
written in the history of the times, and fresh
in the recollections of all who hear me In
teference to this, as well as to every other de
bateable portion of his public life, I purposely
refrain, lest I should transgress the just bounds
of this occasion, from any attempt to vindicate
their expediency or their rightfulness. Only
one claim in his behalf do I now think it need
ful or becoming to assert ; that if in any of his
official acts he erred, his errors were of the
understanding, not of the heart; and that in
them all, he acted from hottest, disinterested,
and patriotic motives. On this point he thus
speaks. in the lofty tone of conscious integrity,'
in one of his recorded vindications. "Id vain
do I bear upon my person enduring memorials
of that contest in which American liberty was I
purchased—in vain have I since periled pro
petty,
fame and life, in defence of the rights
and privileges so dearly bought, * • • • I
if any serious doubts can be entertained as ti4l
the purity of my purposes and motives. * •
In the history of conquerors and usurpers, ne
ver, in fire of youth, nor the vigor of manhood,
could I find an attraction to lure me froth the
path of duty, and now I shall scarcely find an
inducement to commence their career of ambi
tion, when gray hairs and a decaying frame,
instead of inviting to toil and battle, call me to
the contemplation of other worlds, where con
querors cease to be honored, and usurpers ex
piate their crimes. The only ambition I can
feel, is to acquit myself to Him to whom I
must soon render an account of my stewartship,
to serve my fellow men, and live respected and'
honored in the history of my country; No;
the ambition which leads me on, is an anxious
desire and a fixed determination to return to the
people unimpaired the sacred trust they have
confided to my charge, ' • * * * •
to persuade my countrymen, so far as I may,
that it is not in a splendid government, sup
ported by powerful monopolies and aristocrati
cal establishments, that they will find happi
ness. or their liberties protection ; but in a
plan system, void of pomp—protecting all. and
granting favors to none—dispensing its bles
sings, like the dews of Heaven unseen and un
felt, save in the freshness and beauty they con
tribute to produce. It is such a government
that the genius of our people requires—such
en one only under which our States may re
main for ages to come, united, prosperous and
If the Almighty Being, who has hitherto sus
tained and protected me, will but vouchsafe to
make my feeble powers instrumental to such a
result. I shall anticipate, with pleasure. the
place to be assigned me in the history of my
country, and die contented, with the belief that
I have contributed, in some small degree, to
increase the value and prolong the duration o
American liberty." Andrew Jackson has ow
retired to the sequestered shades of pripte life,
with the benedictions of a grateful people and
the respect and admiration of the/world. He
enters his loved and peaceful Ilirmitage, at the
appointed limit of human i fistence, with an
enfeebled frame ; the vie o f mof complicated and
incurable maladies. which leave him little res
pite from pain, anOio strength or relish for the
pleasures of GNI(*) life. - Yet' has,this been, in
many respect‘ the happiest and not the feast
useful portinn of his rootlet career.
Feeling that he has fulfilled with fidelity and
zea,l-the course of public service to which Pro
ence had directed him, conscious of the sin-
gleness and purity of his motives, and happy
in the belief that the great mass of his political
opponents dcrhim justice in this respect ; thrice
happy in the knowledge, that the principles by
which he has been guided, are warmly.cherish.
ed by a great majority of The people ; receiving
continually, and in a thousand forms, proofs
of affection and esteem from all classes of his
countrymen ; full of faith in the vitality and
perpetuity of our system of government, State
and federal ; anticipating, with delight, the ad
vancing glories of his country, and surrounded
by a family he loves, and by each member of
which he is held in the profoundest veneration;
the retirement of Andrew Jackson, notwith.
standing hie bodily infirmities. is all that wis
dom or patriotism can desire. and such as fen ,
statesmen and heroes in the history of Mankind
have been permitted to enjoy. For more than
eight years he is spared to our affections, and
though for the last thtee of them he seldom
quits his dwelling, except to bow filmset( in
the Noose of God, his mental faculties remain
unimpaired, nor ate they idle for a day. His
correspondence, whether of friendship ; or of
private or public busitiess, ie kept up with
steadiness and aetititt. Alive to everything
that concerns his . belo'ved country. and taking
daily note of her struts. he Founds from his
lone watch-tower the voice of counsel of of
warning, according to the Vision which lie Fees,
and to the message which has been given him.
And though at times adall eat is, turned to his
most
prophesying.. yet in eases. and (epeeist
ly to the latest, his wads have been clothed
With their aneietit lifter over the minds and
actions of his fellnwei - . • •
. ~
If there be any to whoin these Otte:anent .I
seem futile and needless, they will yet allow I,
that each of them breathed the language of thi /I
heart, and is manna with teat for the glory and I
happiness of Arnerica. But it ili Aril to the ,
public cause that all his , thoughts are giien.--; ji
Weighty and instant as, are the dunes of •the
citizen to his 'country, ANDREW hiatuses —re. I,
members that he owes to his Maier higher I I
and more solemn responsibility.. This semi..
meat had been implanted in his youthful bread
by a mother's lessons and a mother's loye.e--
It had been nourished by the example of a wife
—one of the excellent of the earth ; brprovi-
tlential deliverances and favors, by the perusal II
of the Book of God, and by the instructioni of
the pulpit. II td r the circumstances in which
he is now placed, these influences acgitirenetg,
and by Divine blessing, decisive force: They
lead him to the Garden and the Cross; he seeks
and obtains the 'orgiverfess of his gins ; he
avows before the world the hopes he has re
ceived,
and publicly enlists in the army of the 11
faithful. Henceforth he addicts himself, with
a child-like docility, tb the,duties and piiiilee
gee of the Christian life. He findo in thee) his
chief enjoyment, and they produce in biro their
appropriate effects—peacm with God, fortitude
in suffering, patience and resignation in the
midst of pain, serenity and hope in the pros:
pect t f his departure. And tells Mit length the
final hour has come, hew does it illustrate the
humility of his charactei, the warmth Of his
benevolence, the sincerity, the vigor of his
faith ! W A prayers for household; his friends,;
his country, with the words of love and imitrueJ
lion to all around him ; With entire ielianceo I
the merits of his Redeemer. he commits, with
out a murmur or a sigh, his immortal Whit t
the God of hie salvation, his periehing body t
ii
dust from wheneeit came !
siiett, fellovi-citizens, were the last moment
of Andrew Jackson. how unlike those usual
ly assigned by poetry and romance to their fa,'
bled heroes ! And yet, in the soberjudgme4
of enlightened reason, not less sublime and hehl
roic than if passed on the field of battle and the
chariot of victory. The greatest of all tritimphit
is that which is achieved over the lath enemyl,
and this, through the faith which is in Jesu
Jackson was able to achieve. The fifes of th
last day shall consume the laurel wreaths o f
earth ; most of them. indeed, will have!Wither
ed ere it comes ; and all ever worn Or won, ill
the tide of time, would furnish no compensi;
tion for the loss of a single soul. But the
chaplet awarded to the faithful soldiet of. the
Cross, shall be a crown' of glory, " that fadelh
not away." How poor.• in comparison, the
deeth-scenes enacted by the warriors of the
heathen world ! Jackson was a Christian, and .
lie died the Christian's death. In view of this
fact and of its blessed issues, how rich, hOw
unfailing our sources of consolation ! In notes
as melodious and sublime as those which waft
ed to the skies,by the aid of Milton's immo rtal
genius, the departing spirit of the Hebrew mg r:
r
tyr, the chorus of American sympathy se ils
up from our Jackson's bed of death, its rein
of mournful exultation---
" Nothing is here for tears, nothing mini%/
Or knock the breast I no weakness, no contempt,
ii /
Dispraise or blame ; nothing but well and fair, /i 1
• And what may quiet oin a death so noble."/ 11
The Valley of the Mississippi; 114 theitre .
of his youthful valor and his meridian renown'
—the sanctuary of his declirring age— f' idet
within her bosom the ashelyrif. her H.eib- i ll /11
the centre of that young and vigorous state,
whose destinies, oneezhis anxious rare, w a re
long the objects of is satisfied re g ard ; onithe
seen) , banks otzthe Cumberland . where the
strong verdure/Of the VC eat begins reluctantly
to yield to / the luxuriant beauty of the Smith ;
enibosenced in a sacred Solitude, stands ithe
'tom of the Hermitage—henceforth to diide
11,,,
with / Mount Vernon, the respect , the ad I ira
-icon and the reverence of mankind. The g,int
pitchy of his life, the calm dignity Of his death,
are all exemplified by the humility of his grave.
You remember how he rejected the imp l erial
honor that was proffered to his bones. Pi o I
cannot permit my remains to be the firs t , in
these United States to be deposited in a sa i rco;
phagus made for an emperor or s king. I have
prepared an humble depositnry for my mOrtaL
body beside that wherein lies my beloved tire;
where, without any pomp or naiads.. I -ace
requested when my Cod calls me to sleeplWith
my fathers, to be laid ; for both of us the e to
remain until the last trump rounds to cal the
dead to judgment, when we, I hope. steal rise
y i.
together, clothed with that heavenly bed I pro.:
mised to all who' believe 10 our glonotis Re.
f
deemer, who died for us that we inigh live
and by whose atonement I hope fora bl e ssed
injmortality." This was the answer of ihris:
lien Meekness, of Republican simplicity, of-
Ainekican patriotism. Catching the strait:olom
the lips of the dying Hero, we may elo its
lofty inspiration. More than this, w Lamy
give it to-day a new and sublimer signifie nee.
Sleep sweetly, aged Soldier, Statesman,age.
in the grave of kindred and affection. l lmat=
tens little where hia Lady is laid, whose Imerri
ore is enshrined in all our hearts ; the is
mitt of,whose fame is the country that
ved ; the inscription. of whose greatnel
the praises of the world. But if there li
solace in memory ; if any virtue in the
temptation of heroic deeds t_ any purity.
lessens of sublime example ; to the sett!
Of Jeeitsthe let the pilgrimage of haream
made--m the ardor of a generous enthil
the 'eympaitiy.,of a fraternal loge, the co
666' Of a Christian (aid,.
ACCOMMODATING BOTH' WAYS -.rt.
York 'tribune has the following :
Cot 'Graham has Stair ted and Roher
ris naktirted the Postmasteiship. It is sa
Morris, on taking possession, looked atom
Post Oflire m the different doors M:d sal
s. Well Colonel. y'u hare a good Mail
of getting in here."
Yes," answered Graham, and also •
many trays of zellinsr oul."
A Nam"; carrying a sickle through th
accidentally let it fall. whereupon it was r ,
ed that said person evidently had a dr,
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