The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-06-07

DOM IOVeu tneir companions IN arms
were grateful for favors, but far from being
equally sensitive to the severity of impeach
ment from the tongue Of rumor. An ac.
cusation that would throw Gen. Jackson
into paroxysm of Indignation, would on.
ly begin to stir the sensibilities of Harri>
son. Bodness, ardor, burning patriotism
characterized the one-caution, resolution
steady love of country the other. The
moral was probably equal TO the military
courage of each. Neither understood fear.
Neither gave up hope in the darkest crisis.
Neither could tolerate blunders, weakness
or WaverlDg. when the enemy was nigh.
Jackson could never speak of BLddens6urg
with patience. "With that old MILL" said
he, 'on the bank of the river for fort. and
four hundred men, would have beat the
rascals off," He declared that all the A.
mericans wanted at any time was leader
and some discipline. Both these men re-.
posed after the storm of war and the ia.
tigues of a campaign. with deep delight, on
the bosom of domestic love. They were
fond and devoted husbands. AS the de-
parted wife of the one is held in sacred re-
membrance by her husband, so the depart
ed husband of the other is cherished by his
surviving widow, in whose affection a no.
ton was afflicted. As intellectual men,
they were both strong, but while education
had polished the mind of Harrison, it had
done little for that of jackson. In litera-
ny composition he is quite deficient, while
Harrison was the best belleslctier scholar
and the most popular speaker in his class
at College. The full, strong, and volumni.
ous voice of Harrison was heard by So.
600 people at his Inauguration. Probably
not five hundred heard that of Jackson on
Il similar occasion. In money matters, the
one was free. generous, even prodIgal.-
The other is careful, saving, just before
generous, abliors beggars, and thinks it
dangerous TO encourage them. Harrison
would eject from his pocket the last eagle
for the destitute and suffering. Like Mon
roe, Harrison could not die rich. Like Van
Buren,, Jackson would with the greatest
difficulty die poor. In the bosom of both,
love OF country burned with inexlinguisha-
bic ardor, and they constitute, like Wash
ington, each the rare case of the highest
Office in the world seeking them in dig
nifed retirement, instead Of their seeking
it. The one, apparently feeble. outllved
his double Presidential term, tempestuous
and disastrous as it was the other, appdr-
emily strorg, died on the very Threshold of
his labors and responsibilities.
What an event was that death it thrill
led the heart of the nation. When il was
announced to the astonished people, who
was not taken by surprised
Those that were distant from the scene
imagined many things. Those that were
near saw and felt things almost surprising
imagination.
There might have been deeper sublim-
lily in the grief of the people, as the melan-
choly news travelled from city TO city and
from village to village in this fair land, but
its strength and righteousness could not be
greater than in the hearts of those who
were near the departed President; who had
expected from him no favors, and who were
doomed to no disappointment. The peo-
pie, old and young, crowded around his cof-
fin, as in solemn majesty the body repo-
sed in the ante-room of the White House.
No soldicrs-no sentinels were necessary.
OF the thousands who visited that room, all
seemed under the influence of secret, ST.
lent, invisible law, proceeding from the
PROVIDENCE OF Cop. that dispensed with
the necessity of all human vigilance. The
chief of seventeen millions of people had
fallen. Death could do no more Many
were the carly, blooming flowers lain on the
bier by the hand of affection. Many the
natural fears shed over that illustrious form.
| saw some Of the plainest and poorest, that
appeared TO have lost father and friend
with those that were near, it seemed not
so much the death of the President as of
the man, yet ga prince and great man ="
in our political Israel.
/ THE FUNERAL-was there ever such
one? The nation went into mourning on
that day. No gorgeous externals were
needed to excite public attention. The
simple velyeted coffin with ITS precious
charge was born along in the centre of that
immense procession, which outnumbeTed
the triumphial procession of The 4th of
March. Then rushed upon the mind Sc
ries Of contrasts. iiow different from the
Inauguration day. Then the joyful roar
of the artillery welcomed the living Chief
Now the solemn minute gun proclaimed
the funeral honors of the illustrious dead.
J Then The national banners streamed aloft
: 10 the winds of heaven. Now they were
I furled 10 the staff, and bound with the bad.
ges of mourning. Along the whole length
I of the main avenue the white handkerchiefs
waived from a thousand fair hands greet
ing the President elect as he passed on the
Fourth, but now they who held them look
ed on in fearful silence. The spirit STIR
ring notes of the bugle were heard on the
one dav on the other. the wall of the mar
iial trumpet, as the body was removed fIom
the house. This procession of thousands
was not moving to the Capitoline Hill 10
install the chosen Leader in his great of
: fee, but to the mausoloum of the dead to
entomb his mortal remains where the cares
and honors of the State are alike unknown.
could not help calling to mind the fine
C,p,n haIl nm tho fu1ar,l