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Speeches delivered before the Demo
cratic State Convention.
MARCH 4 til, 1S5G.
; GEORGE W. DREWEIl.
Mr President and gentlemen of the Con
vention : I do not know that I can say any
thing to add to the proceedings that would
brighten the prospects that now sniilo over
the party, "or that would inspire in the bosoms
of that party more devotion fco the principles
heretofore advocated by them, or around
which they now cluster with the resolution to
bear them aloft in triumph as in days gone
by, or to fall proudly with them on the field
of battle. Sir, Pennsylvania, before to-day,
has been the great battle field upon which
the battle of the Constitution of the country
has been fought. She has been tho ground
upon which that Constitution has been vindi
cated, and upon which its purity and its wis
dom have been proclaimed and maintained by
her Democracy. In the approaching canvass,
it is not, Mr. Chairman, simply : a contest of
uiiuor principles or measures, but that great
.palladium of the country, the great ark of the
Union have been assailed, and it becomes the
-jroud duty of the Democracy of Pennsylva
nia once more to rally around it and preserve
it from the hands of the assailant and the
dagger of the assassin. Applause. No
man can hrve witnessed the deliberations, of
this body without pleasure and without pride ;
no oue can have marked the spirit that has
animated its members, or tho results that
have crowned their deliberations, without
feelings of exultation; but, sir, that sentiment
of gratification broadens, expands and swells
into afar nobler emotion, when be looks over
Pennsylvania, the great Keystone of the
Federal arch, and reflect that we, after all,
are a mere handful of men, representing the
masses of Pennsylvania in the advocacy of
Mr Buchanan and his measures.
I have been glad, sir, that it has been my
(pleasure to listen to the dispatch that has been
Tead from New Jersey. It is indeed gratify
ing to see the States of this Union wheel into
line. Sir, the battle to be fought next, fall is
not the battle of Pennsylvania, it is the battle
'of the Union, and the people of tho Union
will form the army, wish Mr. Buchanan to
lead them to victory, and after victory is
achieved, with statesmanship to guide the
counsels of the nation, will be triumphant for
free institutions the world over. Applause.
; ' The Ivuow-Nothings has been called the
Dark Lantern party ; but I think this term is
no longer appropriate They are no longer
the Dark Lantern party. Their lamp has
been extinguished, and their lantern Las been
broken -
Their, numbers have fled,
Their lanterns arc dead,
And all but Sambo departed.
No, sir, we have nothing to fear from that
party. The great principles brought here
from tho old world by our forefathers, who
were driven by tyranny to a waste into an
Eden of joy and loveliness. Our forefathers,
driven here by v.anny and intolerance, bleed
ing with many stripes, have planted those
stripes in glory upon our starry flag, and have
turned the dungeon to which they were ban
ished into a temple where religion can find a
common shrine, and oppression tho safety of
a common asylum. Applause.
Mr. Chairman, while we are cheered by
the prospects for our party, which are as
bright as the sun which now illuminates the
heavens, wc should not forget that we have a
iigh wid important duty to discharge to our
Belves and crar posterity. In our keeping,
sir, is that integrity tho most priceless in
'heritance ever bequeathed to any people in
the world ; and it depends upon the union,
'harmony, and vigor with which the Democ
racy of Pennsylvania shall move in a solid
column in the coming campaign, whether we
'"will transmit this heritage to our posterity
its glory unsullied and its honor unblotted.
"Let us be tmitcd, then. Feeling the import-'
'ance of this contest, let us be animated by
patriotism worthy of Pennsylvanians, worthy
'or the Union, and worthy of the man who is
to lead our troops to victory: It becomes now
the duty of Pennsylvania, through her people
'and .-through the delegates that have been
selected to represent her at Cincinnati, to use
means, to exert every energy of tho bodv
.-and faculty of the mind, to secure the nomi-
Hation'of Mr. Buchanan him, who, in davs
: .gone by, has been the tower of strength
him whose geaius has . thrown around his
country the halo of its ' brightest glory him
whose history is the triumphs of the country
i -wbose integrity, whose elevated purpose,
whose unswerving-patriotism are co-extensive
"with the interests of this great,' mighty and
growing Republic. Great applause. Let
him be placed at the head of the Democratic
army let him be' made the bearer of that
glorious standard that has been carried trium
phantly by the Democracy through - so many
'dark days ; let him whose plume has always
Waved in the thickest of the battle, and whose
..TOiea baa cheered when the ). our k-A darVost
- m mm &e
our leader, and it needs
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no
prophet to predict that Pennsylvania, from
hei green valleys, from her lofty mountains,
from her hills and her dales, will roll up a
majority equal to those that she rolled up in
the days of the immortal and illustrious Jack
son. Cheers.
, And, speaking of that man, that illustrious
patriot whose memory is enshrined in the
heart of every American. I cannot but re
mark that 1 was struck by a notice which I
saw in a Berks county paper some time ago,
announcing the nominations of the party that
met at Philadelphia. I do not know its name
Republican, Free Soil or Know-Nothing
it had "Andrew Jackson" in capital letters,
and " Donelson" in small type, with a small
Vd" very appropriate and significant.
Gentlemen, I will not detain you louger.
We shall not meet agaiwiu this hall before
the election takes place ; but I hope to meet
every Delegate upon this floor, and not only
to meet him, but the great people of this great
State, at the ballot box, where one man is as
good as another and a good deal better.
Laughter Let us meet there, and vindi
cate our principles and support our candidate,
and victory will be ours. Great applause.
genv wm. f. packer.
Gen. Packer was loudly called for, and re
sponded in the following eloquent speech :
Mr. President: I am a little suprised that
whilst we are congratulating ourselves upon
the bright prospects of the Democracy fiom
our own elevated position, that little or noth
ing has been said in relation to the position
and prospects of the party against which our
forces will be turned on the first Tuesday of
next November. What, pray, is their posi
tion at this time ? Where is their platform "?
Our platform has been announced here, and
has received the unanimous sanction of this
body, and wili be received with acclamations
of joy by the great nationalDemocratic party
from one end of this Union to the other. W e
go forth as a unit, with our banners stream
ing, and standing upon a platform to every
part of which the Democracy of the country
will say yea, and amen. Applause. What
sir, is the platform of the opposition ? Where
is it Why, sir, they have been in power
iu Pennsylvania for the last year and a half ;
and what is the history of that year and a
half? They had the last Legislature of Peun
S3'lvania. In the House of Representatives
that assembled in this hall only one year ago,
the dark lantern party had a majority of
nearly forty. They had a Senator of the U.
States to elect, but they met not in Conven
tion as the Democratic party does, with open
doors, and a record of their proceedings fair
ly kept and published to the world ; but wind
ing up that stairway with their dark lantern,
at the hour of midnight, secretly and covert
ly made their nomination, and when that
nomination was made, and their decision pro
nounced, so grossly corrupt, according to their
own testimony, was the entire proceeding,
that one half of their own caucus repudiated
and spit upon their own nomination, and post
poned the election of United States Senator
indefinitely.
What are the distinguishing principles of
the party opposed to the Democracy '! Sir,
they unite in bub- one thing, and that is in
opposition to the Democratic party. They
not only had t.Ris Legislature for the purpose
of electing a United States Senator ; but it
became their duty to carry out the will of the
people in regard to tho license law, which had
beeu directly expressed by the popular vote ;
the question having been submitted to them
by the previous Legislature for their decision,
and they having decided by Eorae thousauds
of a majority against prohibition. Uuderthese
circumstances, what did this party do when it
came to these halls ? Sir, one of its first acts
was to pass a prohibitory law, and to defy the
will of a mighty majority of the people. I
do not object so much to the passage of that
law, as to the circumstances under which it
was passed, and the infamous manner in
which they carried their legislation over the
expressed will of a majority of the people of
the State. It was an exhibition of that kind
of disrespect for the popular will, which finds
a proper channel through the representatives
of the dark lantern party, who here, a year
ago, concocted their wicked schemes.
Mr President, this party not only had the
Legislature of Pennsylvania within the last
year, but that of our sister Stfte, Massachu
setts. So overwhelming was the majority in
that State in favor of the Know-Nothing par
ty, that they had a clear majority over the
Democrats and Whigs combined, of 500 in
the popular branch of the Legislature. And
with this majority, what did they do ? There
is a provision of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States that Constitution which every
member of the State Legislature is sworn to
support, in terms something like these
"This Constitution, and tho laws of the U.
States passed in pursuance thereof, shall bo
the supreme law of the land." One of three
acts of Congress, passed in 1850, which was,
therefore, the supreme law of the land, and
which every member of the Massachusetts
Legislature had sworn to support, prescribed
the manner in which fugitives from .labor
should be delivered up to the person to whom
such service or labor was due. This act the
members of that Legislature, with the Bible
in one hand and the Constitution in the other,
which they had sworn to support, they utterly
repudiated and nullified, by a solemn act of
Assembly. Nay, they went further, and
made it a crime in the State of Massachusetts
for any man to aid in delivering np a fugitive
slave. What do you think, fellow-citizen3
and members of the Convention, of that par
ty, which, in the administration of public af-'
fairs, will take an oath to support the Consti
tution of the United States, and yet will vio
late the plain letter of its provisions?' So
gross an outrage was this to the Constitution,
that Governor Gardner refused to assent to it,
and yet they passed the bill by two-thirds of
a majority over his head, and it stands upon
the statuto book of Massachusetts to-day to
tho disgrace of that old and time-hpnorcd
commonwealthJ What more has this party
done? They have a majority in the lower
House of the National Legislature and has
ever such a scene been witnessed as that
which has taken place there since that party
has had the management of affairs there in its
hands ? Does the so-called American party
plume itself upon the manner in which it
conducts the American House of Representa
tives ? Look at the proceedings that have
taken place at Washington City, and say
whether they do not correspond with the pro
ceedings of the Know-Nothing Legislature
here, and with the conduct of that party
wherover it has been in power. What think
ye of an American majority in an American
llouse of Representatives electing a Speaker
without giving him a solitary vote south of
Mason & Dixon's line ? " Does any man be
lieve that the American people can long be
deceived4!!, - Does any man believe that in the
rrcat contest about to come off, that the
American people will place their confidence
in a party that thus administers the public af
fairs? No, sir : the nominations that we have
made in this Hall will be triumphantly main
tained. I can imagine that I already hear
the trample of our own legions returning from
victory. Sir, I consider the victory has been
gained. Yes, sir,
" Victory's closed in the brant of the fisht, .
And the" day, likea conqueror, bursts on the night;
Trumpet and horn swelling choral along,
The triumph already.. sweeps marching in song."
R. BIDDLE ROBERTS.
Mr. President, I desire to occupy tho at
tention of the Convention by a statement,
which, though not strictly in order, will, I
trust, from its character, be a sufficient ex
cuse for this interference with its regular
business. " ' . '
Sir, a happy omen has just occurred in our
deliberations." Last night it was unanimous
ly proclaimed in this largo and respectable
Convention, that James Buchanan was their
choice now and forever for the Presidency of
this Union, and this afternoon, ere those de
liberations close a telegraphic despatch comes
from the State of New Jersey, in these
words :
Philadelphia, March 5. Despatches have
been received from the Hon. J. R. Thompson,
that the members of the New Jersey Legis
lature have unanimously recommended the
Hon James Buchanan for the Presidency."
Deafejiing applause.
Sir, I have nothing more eloquent than
that despatch. I can say nothing that would
move the hearts or elevate the voice of this
Convention more nobly or more gloriously,
than this wheeling iu of sister State after
State, in favor of Pennsylvania's favorite son.
Cheers. From the Atlantic to the Pacific,
from Georgia to the CaHfomias, State after
State proclaims him their choice, and that
public necessity and the public welfare re
quire the nomination of James Buchanan and
James Buchanan only. Elevated as his name
has been in State and national halls, his late
glorious, firm and dignified stand in asserting
and maintaining our rights abroad, will write
his name in letters of fire on tbehearts tf
the Democracy and the people of this country.
Cheers.
HON.
WM II . WELSH.
Mr. President I did not come here for the
purpose of making a sheech, but simply to
participate in the deliberations of the Conven
tion as an humble member. I came here, sir,
simply to gather with the Democracy of Penn
sylvania around their annual council fires I
came here to perform with them a solemn lus
tration at the pure and limpid fountain of De
mocracy I came here to look with them up
on our old battle flag, that has been so often
crowned with the laurel wreathes of victory,
and to pledge with them my constant and un
alterable devotion to its bright stars and its
red stripes, which have never yet been given
to the breeze, that they did not blend and
mingle in harmony and beauty with the glori
ous stripes and stars imprinted upon the con
secrated ensign of our common country. Per
haps, Mr. President, I have some little right
to speak here to-day, when the name of James
Buchanan is mentioned. I had the honor to
be associated with him for two years, during
his mission in London an honor that any
man might well be proud of and, sir, iu all
my intercourse with him, wherever, the place,
or whatever the occasion, whether in London,
in the Court, or with the people, I can say to
this Convention, and can say to the people of
Pennsylvania, as I hope to have the pleasure
of doing in many places between this and the
next election, that he was in every instance,
wherever he went, under ail circumstances,
thoroughly and entirely an American citizen.
Applause I can say this, that the British
Court never received a bolder rebuke than
when amid their blazonry and trappings, their
gewgaws and goldn lace James Buchanan
walked proudly erect in the plain and simple
dress of an American gentleman. Applause.
We have met here to-day for a double pur
pose for the purpose of selecting candidates
for a' State ticket to be supported in the ap
proaching contest, and also for the purpose of
ascertaining the choice of Pennsylvania for
the next Presidency, and presenting a Dem
ocrat to our party in our sister States, and
asking that we shall no longes be hewers of
wood and drawers of water, but that the long
neglected, claims of Pennsylvania shall now
be recognized in the National Convention.
Applause. I never in my life felt more in
terest in any approaching campaign than the
one now opening before us. I believe honest
ly, that upon the success and permanency of
the Democracy of this Union depends in a
great measure the permanency of our repub
lican institutions. The Democratic party has
always been the party of the people. Every
cardinal principle of its faith aims most stri
kingly at an enlargement of the popular rights.
We have always contended for an extension of
the. elective franchise; battled for tho destruc
tion of monopoly : taught everywhere that the
people are the safest depositories of political
power ; struggled for the reform of abuse ;
taught that the poor mau is on the same equal
ity with the rich man, that his priceless inher
itance! of freedom is the same, and that the
hewe of. wood and drawer of water has as
muchright to be considered in the fashioning
of municipal regulations as those whose good
fortunes have placed them beyond the pale of
labor.! And we have also taught, and have
always taught it with pride and pleasure, that
it matters not where a man first drew the
breath of ; life, nor under what sun he may
have first seen the light of Heaven, if he ful
fils all our constitutional requirements, he can
make a good citizen ; that a man's religion Is
a matter between himself and his God ; that in
this free and happy country, the raiubow, and
not tb?. cloud, surrounds the blessed cross of
our' RedJet- fid thatFfe'w or Gentile,
Catholic or Protestant, he shall not be perse
cuted on account of a faith made dear to him
by the memory of his fathers, and hallowed
by all the sacred recollections of the past.
Applause. .
M r President I have nothing more to say.
I thank this Convention for the honor done
me in permitting me to address it. I to day
enlist in this Democratic army. I will go
forth whenever I am needed in this Common
wealth, from the Delaware to the Allegheuics,
reuderlng any service, that I may be able to
do, not only to secure the success of James
Buchanan, but the success of the-Democratic
party of this Union ; Applause: and if we
all do our duty, and go to work iuanfulby, af
ter the next Presidential election the Demo
cratic standard will be floating gloriously and
triumphantly over' the millions of freen-en
now scattered from the icy waters of Maine
to' the golden sands of the Sacramento
Great applause.
The Hero of New Orleans.
From the Boston Tost.
All our readers have often heard of Old
Hickory, who fought many enemies in the
course of his life ; and among them none was
more powerful, fascinating and subtle than
the National B&nk, with its gold and silver
and paper arms, spreading like the railroad
bauds all over the na.tiou. . Lion-like and in
corruptible, dissimilar to many who had yielded
to its bribes and accommodations, he vanquish
ed the unconstitutional mammoth.
Let us now for a while direct our attention
to an individual much his junior in age; we
mean Young Hickory, who preceded the old
gentleman by many years His ancestors are
traced back to Scotland : and they belonged
to that band of colonists whereby England
designed to establish permanent dominion iu
Ireland, after she had subjugated that ill-fated
nation Young Hickory's grandfather was
christened Hugh. He was a linen draper
near Carrickfergus in the north-east of the
Emerald Isle ; and had four sons, the 3'oung
est of whom was named Andrew. In the
same year that the infamous stamp act was
passed, in 17G5, British oppression compelled
this 3-oungest son, with his family, to leave
their native country. They accordingly em
barked for America, and settled in South
Carolina. . . J
Just eighty-nice years ago, this day, was
born the infant Hickory; and though a native
American himself, ' his unfortunato parents
were nothing but industrious, liberty-loving,
fugutive foreigners ; and worse than this,
they were Irish ! An Irish family in free
America, the only asylum on earth for the
down trodden. Yes, down in South Carolina,
one of our glorious thirteen, this Irish family
settled ; and a poor American Irish 01? Irish
American infant dared to be -born, in two
years afterwards ; and he also dared to breathe
American soil, after he was born. This da
ring child was no less than Young Hickory,
the subject of our brief sketch ; and while a
lad, his father died and left him an orphan,
in no opulent circumstances. His mother
gave his two brothers a common education,
but desirous to see this daring youngster, this
half-Irish orphan, in the church, sent him to
an academy, where he progressed rapidly in
his studies. But the revolutionary war roused
his friends and neighbors, who were also Irish
and Scotch, to join the resistance to Britain.
They were but a few of thousands of Irish
men who helped the colonies throw off the
British yoke. In 1780, August G, at the age
of thirteen, this daring youth, with his broth
er Robert, was fighting under Sumpter against
the English. garrison at Rocky Mount. Noxt
year, we find him battling a party of torks.
(Know-Nothings,) who were endeavoring to
waylay and kill the patriot Lands then shel
tered in our young hero's house. At two
different vollies, three men were shot down
close by his side, while he was firing at these
marauders. In each instance Providence fa
vored this half Irish boy, for he was uninju
red. Shortly after thi3 Lord Cornwallis sent
a detachment of dragoons in pursuit of him
and his comrades. They were successful. -These
reckless soldiers seived the household
property of his mother pretty much as were
the patriot Jefferson's crops, slaves, fences,
barns and live stock, served directly under
the eye of Cornwallis. No effort was made
by the commanding officer to save her proper
ty from destruction. Nor were the juvenile
prisoners treated civilly. This was the same
Cornwallis that, on his return home, decora
ted and enriched hi house with the silver and
other aicveables his myrmidons had filched
from Americans It was Zjord Cornwallis
Young Hickory was sent to jail in Camden,
where he remained till released by means of
his mother, a common Irish woman. How
could she have influence ? Not long after
this, exhausted with her constant efforts to aid
the sufferings of American prisoners at Char
leston, she died. "
When near eighteen he began to study law.
At the are of twenty he was appointed Dis
trict Solicitor for part of North Carolina.
We soon find him aetivej in skirmishes with
the Indians. They styled him "Sharp Knife,"
and ? Pointed Arrow." His legal. practice
became extensive and lucrative. In 1705 ho
was chosen a member of the Tennessee con
vention to frame a consiitution, for he was
then a resident of west Tennessee ; and Dec.
5th he was a member of the llouse of Rep
resentatives. Next year, at the age of thirty,
Nov. 22, he was in the U. S. Senate While
Senator he was chosen Major-General of the
Tennessee militia, which office ho held till
1814, when he took the same rank in the U.
States army. In 1790 he resigned his teat
in the Senate, and was appointed a judge of
the Supreme Court in Tenneee. Hero he
displayed much talent, sound judgment, and
indomitable resolution, even to arrest ing arm
ed ruffians, who kept the Sheriffs at bay.
This office he soon resigned and retired to an
excellent farm ten miles from Nashville, where
he cnjo3"ed himself in agricultural pursuits
for several years.
Iu the war of 1812 he rallied and headed
a body of twentyrfivc hundred volunteers, in
the midst of a very rigoroujt filter, on a march
to Natchez ; but, circumstances shortly allow
ed him to disband them. By this time it will
be perceived that the half Irish boy, the da
ring orphan, had grown to manhood Now,
w e suppose some of our exquisites would call
him a half Irishman. Well, so be it nobody
cares, lie was courageous. The Creek Indi
ans began to commit barbarities on the fron
tiers. Tecumseh was the warrior. Hickory
was called upon to protect our countrymen.
Thirty-five hundred troops tame under his
command. In October, 1813, he was after
the savages, routed them with a loss of 2'J9
warriors, marched his army back to camp,
where he and they endured many privations.
Intrepid and determined, he fought many bat
tles with various tribes, conquering and rou
ting them iu all directions, die was appointed
a commissioner to negotiate a treaty with the
Creeks. The bat tic of Tcbopeka Lad brought
them to terms.
Having accomplished his objects our scar
red veterans proceeded to "New Orleans, and
arrived there December 1,1814. This key
port of the Mississippi ho immediately began
to place in a state of defence, concentrating
an army there. It was a difficult task.
Louisiana was poorly supplied with arms!
Besides, the city was infested with emmissa
ries, traitors and tories, who had been opera
ting upon the fears and prejudices of the peo
ple. Hearing that the cne my had captured
an American flotillo stationed below, and that
three thousand of them were Uiakiug a land
ing about seven miles off, our hero of foreign
extraction suddenly appeared in their view,
promptly and energetically charged upon and
drove them farther down tho river. This was
done by means of militia patriotic citizens
who keep armed, equipped and drilled, ready
for service. Such made Burgoyne surreuder.
Such we have among us to sustain our laws
and keep public peace. It was at this arm of
safety our last Hiss Legislature aimed its scor
pion blow, when they wished to substitute a
police corps in in its place. After the Ameri
can breastworks had been well nigh comple
ted, the British troops, ten thousand strong,
headed by Sir Edward l'ackenham", came up
on our veteran's forces ia solid columns ; but
they were repulsed, shot down by battallions,
and retreated at quick time. Paekeuham,
several oScers, and nearly three thousand of
their men were killed. This was on January
8, 1815. In ten daj s after the enemy re-embarked.
Our half alien Hickory remained
at New Oileans till news of peace reached
him, when ho repaired to bis usual retreat in
Tennessee. There he continued ia private
life for a few years.
Florida was yet possessed by the Spaniards,
and served as an asylum for the Seminoks,
Creeks, and runaway negroes, who were con
stantly ravaging our frontiers. That he had
no milk and water antagonist iu the Seminole
may be collected from the following stanza
descriptive of their inflexible traits :
I loathe ye with my bosom,
I scorn ye with my eve
And I'll taunt vc with my latest breath,
And light ye'till I die,
I ne'er will ask ye quarter,
And I ne'er will le your slave ;
Cut I'll swim the sea of slaughter,
I'll sink beneath the wave,"
In 1819 ho started, under tho orders of the
United States government, fur. tho scene of
action, to suppress these incursions, rented
the aggressors, executed two British instiga
tors, and speedily ended the campaign. Then
he marched at the head of twelve hundred
men to Pensacola, and occupied it with Uni
ted States troops. It seems that its Gover
nor, Callava, had been sheltering the enemy.
Being blamed by the news journals for this
act, he hastened to Washington and explain
ed his reasons in person. Two years aft-r he
was made commissioner and Governor of the
Florida. July saw our athletic hero there
organizing the territory, and in October he
returned to Nashville
It is obvious by this time thathc person-
age we have been sketching Las attained au
age which entitles him to the venerable aud
honorable appeiation or uiu memory iusi
sturdy Ajax
'his name as
of antiquity almost prefigured j
well as his exploits. And his '
eat was no more nor less than the
domestic retreat
famous Hermitage. Iu 1S24 he wa
nouiina-
ted for the Presidency, and received a greater
share of the popular vets than either cf his .
three competitors ; but, tlie elect 10a lulling
a tailing to ;
the House of Representatives, he was bam
boozled out of it bv a coalition of intrigue.
Four years subsequently, however, that da- ;
ring infant had reached an age and a eelebri- (
ty which recommended him successfully to '
the people's suffrages. The half alien Old,
Hickory left the Hermitage for Washington, !
to be President of the American republic, j
How nobly, how ably he administered the '
govcrLtncnt during his double term fur he
was elected twice, and his influence elected
his successor as well as Polk even hi i4it- ;
ical opponents acknowledge. He was dktiu
truLshed for boldness if conception, resolute-
ness of nuinoso. vifor of aetiou. a wide scope
of cc-uf ri;Lenji:a,
r r o .
and a scuu l ju'Icient. In
:uic caused r.y thit eiue
the xziln cf tlie 1
of Mammon, with its Briarean arms. Argus
eyes, and Herculean power the U. States
Bank when the inflated credit system was
crumbling to pieces aud crushing around him,"
the American Ajax 4 stood erect, a massive
human column, which the heaps of falling
ruins could not brea, nor bend," nor sway
from its fixed foundation."
Having completed his second term, the
staunch republican retired from the jbtorms of
publie life to pass the remnant of hi days at
tho Lcai th and in the family circle of the con
genial Hermitage. There he lived iu tran
quility and comfort, the laurelled warrior, tho
statesman sage, the reverend Ex-Presideut till
age had blanched his cheeks, tilrered hn
locks, and dimmed his eye ; till the sable winp
of death fluttered over his .brow and sealed
his mortal sight forever. But death shrinks
from the vivifying - touch of immortality.
Though Andrew Jackson, closed htm earthly
career on the evening of Suudiiy, Juue, 8,
1845,"' his name; his nets, his spirit, ae in
delibly enstamped upon a human tablet which
can never be demobbed, aud in characters
which Time's fiugers cauuyt erase. They are
impressed in the broad aud tenacious memory
of a free aud grateful people. They will al
ways live
To him we look for a political model. ' ' To
his principles we yield humble deference. HLs'
propounded mcaeures and opinions we would
cherish. His glorious example we would
copy. - Far, very far, from us may it be to
euJeavor to create prejudice cgaiust such
patriots as he, or any of their defendants, by
crying "foreigner, alien, Irish; or foreign
extraction." The accident of birth none can
control ; nor has it anything to do with the
true standard of our race, that of our man
hood. It is rather an imperative duty than
otherwise for us to discountenance such exclu
siveness, especially in a county so deeply in
debted as this is for its discovery, exploration,
settlement, and inePpendence, to citizens of
almost every foreign civilized nation. Mod
esty is more" becoming to us than self-conceit.
It was our Minister Plenipotentiary James
Monroe who was in December, 17'JG, thus
addressed by a foreign high functionary :
" The French republic expects that the suc
cessors of Columbus, RaleigTi and Pcnn, al
ways proud of their liberty, will never forget
that they owe to France." For our part, we
cheerfully accord to the illustrious general
and statesman, who was so appropriately styl
ed by his myriads of admirers the Old Ro
man, for his sterling qualities, the meed of
national praise. We venerate the name of
Andrew Jackson for his sincere, and mighty.
iuu. successiui enorts ior our permanent wel
fare, for his defence of the Constitution, and
his invaluable contributions to the perpetuity
of the American Union.
A Beautifcl Inscription-. In Trinity
church-yard, there is an inscription on a tomb,
so singularly and afiectingly beautiful, w e can
not forbear to record it and the emotions it
awakens iu the bosom of a stranger. It is uu
oblong pile of masonry surmounted by a slab
stone, on which arc deeply cut the following
words :
"my mother!
The trvmKt sh-all sound uud the dead sliill
rise."
There are nrs other letters or characters to
be found on the blab or pile. If there is one
inscription in the thousand languages, that
are, or have been, of earth, fitted to retain iu
bubiime meaning through every period of time
up to the resurrection morning, it is this.
The writer seemed aware that names would
be forgotten, and titles fade from the memory
of the world. He, therefore, engraved thu
name ty which ho first knew her who gave
him birth on the stone and the deare.-t of
all names, that of MOTHia, shall sound &
thrill through thy heart of every one who
may ever lean over this monumental pile. If
any shall wish to know further of her, who
La 1 a child to engrave her most endearing
name upon a rock, he is e ublimely referred to
the sounding of the trumpet, aud the rising of
the dead, when may know all. Aew York
Mirror.
A Blcxdir. Most of the. English papers
are frequently ignorant of American affair.-",
and wc have often been amused at jthcir blun
ders when speaking of our politics and geog
raphy. But the most amusing mistake, of
receDt date, is that made by the Iiuhjicnihwc
Bchjer a Brussels jourual, which says, in ref
erence to Mr. Banks, Speaker of the House
of Representatives : "The new Speaker of
tho llouse is a lAack of Massachusetts, who
belongs, his cobjr sujfirit ifjij indicates, t
tho extreme party of abolitionists." What
will Speaker Banks think of this? for, although
! ho belongs to the Black Republican party, he
is certainly not a Hack man.
S" The " Tenth Legion," a sound Dem
ocratic paper published at Woodstock, Va., is
strcnly iu favor of Mr. Blcuanax for the
l'residedc)-, and is of the opiok.11 that, iu the
event of his nomination, he will " assuredly
receive the electoral votes of New York, Peuu
syivania.
New Hampshire, -Maine, Maryland,
Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, .ikansas, iexas, -His-
soun, inn;na, liunois, .uicnigan, lowa, aua
probaLly North Caro'.iua, Tennessee, and New
Jcisey." The editor says further, that ho
" cannot count the same number of States for
3113- oilier candidate" named iu connexion with
ih-i nomination.
The FiiiMrrsEtT a know nothing low.e.
A Kuow Nothiug lodge wa.s burnt out by
the rcceut fire in Syracuse. Their furniture
nveiitoried, according to the Staudard, four
! broku chairs, a three-legged desk, lour vol
' uiacs of The ad rent arts M-tria Movk.'K
1 lot of choice songs composed by Seth,"a
copy cf tne Bible in Hindoo, aud a brazen
;, eagle with silver wings and a blue tuil.
Tne
bird of liberty wes
dettrftTcd.
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