Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-02-27
FROM TIE RICHMOND WING.
THE EIGHTH OF JANUARY-DEATH
OF JACKSONISM.

OF JAChfcONlSM. En-
This triumphant anniversary does not APP
pear to have been celebrated in any quarter or
town of the country. A motion in the House
of Representatives to observe il as day fes-
tivity, received 10 votes noes I63, and that
with 4 Locotoco majority! We'll might Mr..
Stanly congratulate the country that "the days
of gloriication were passed. Jacksonsm may
almost be-spoken ofas Chateaubrand spoke Of
the memory of Leonidas at Sparta. When
he visited the spot where old Sparta stood, the
Frehch traveller says he saw no living soul; in
the enthusiasm of his feelings he assembled
mound, in the midst of what was once Sparta,
and thrice shouted aloud the name of Leon
idas. "Not an echo returned my voice." and
Sparta herself seemed to have forgotten the
name of her Hero.
Such has been, will be, the fate of all; soon
est and most Justly the fate of those whose
fame rests upon no solid benefactions 10 man
kind, whose abilities and whose opportunities
have been misdirected and perverted to ad-
vance the f1eeting interests of parties and OF
individuals, and the hour, instead of the gen.
eral and the permanent good. Never the man
! lived in this Union since the Father of his
country, who had so much in his power for
good or evil as Andrew Jackson, popularity
equal TO all eXigencies-a devotion TO his per-
son almost idolatrous in its extent, but which
a Washington knew how, in parallel case,
to appropriate to the good of his country
How did this vulgar Hero use the powerful
position in which the caprice of fortune had
placed him! Let the melancholy history OF
his most disastrous dynasty, and that of the
, successor whom his Nepotism installed, give
the answer. The destructive viciSsitudes OF
commemorative proStration OF the mercantile
class, as necessary to the body polite, as the
hand to the body corporeal-the inroads OF
faction-the long sway of the grossest and vi
lest demagoguism-the fatal tendency to ar
: ray the ignorant against the intelligent, the
poor against the rich, the worthless against
the worthy-the most deadly inroads upon the
6 tor their having been brought into premature
life, and many others, to this mob Hero, who
). neither deserved the elevation which he at
5 tanned, nor knew how to employ it, either TO
promote his country, or preserve reputation
for himself!
His influence is already accordingly, dead.
Even the mob which worshipped him, worship
him no longer, since his power has departed.
: Shout the name of Jackson now, as Chateau
= BRAND did that of Leonidas "a Hero OF an
: other stamp and echo gives no answer. The
: People not only beat him in Tennessee by
l. immense maiorities, but they beat him two to
one in his own precint, where he votes him.
self and exercises the little personal influence
l. which pertains to an Ex-President of the Uni
n ted States! Is not this just! Is it not glorious
for the American PROFESSIONALLY for the
q People of Tennessee! 1t is an extent and lat
n itude of glory which no People have trans
Is cended. Had we the Treasures OF the Me-
N dicis, they should primarily be devoted, hrst
IN to erecting a monument to little Vermont, the
rs only State which never trucked to Jackson
n ism. even in its attitudes; secondly, to mon
ument to Tennessee, who so promptly dscar-
a. ded her citizen when she found him to be
OF mere pretender to the virtues he never pos
sessed, and the patriotic and constitutional
st principles, of which his ignorance precluded
him even a just conception.
'st acknowledgements ship--is dead! Let
patriots rejoice. That pcrnicious influence
which has ruled our destnies for the best part
es, of generation, and ruled them IN every In.
stance to the detrment OF what every gooo
9ar man and good citizen should most cherlSh' Is
ell extinct at last. Not even holiday can now
In be obtained upon the strength OF his once all
conouerinr name-not even holiday In Con-
oo gress, where his disciples yet predominant
but are soon to predominant no more.
81 these indications do not convey Joy to the
hearts of that well-tried and faithful band o
Patriots, who for IL years have been fighting
w wild beasts at EpheSus, we know what ough
LOT to do.
The future is uncertain. Our hopes of ben
eft from the late Revolution may all be chm
81 erical ano doomed to disappointment; but
no good shall be accomplished, as surely WI
be. at least there is cause for virtuous exults
ton, in having finally extinguished Jackson
ism, the scourcc as we'll as the disgrace OF OF
ear.
The Frenchcr over NdPoleon'S dust--Whe
the remains of Napoleon were carried throug
oc the streets of Paris, the cry of the people WI
"Vioe PEmpereurl" All! he could not IL
, 81 again! That inanimate dust is no more
! Is heave with the impulses, passions and asPlr
tonsof life!
, or II Is however remarkable circumstan