The North-Carolina standard., 1844-04-03


gappled with the head and front of our Mushroom
noneyed afistocraey, the United States Bank, and
sEangled the hydra not in its YOUTH not In It's old
age. but in the fusty prime ofits golden manhood
tCheers Its defunct carcase has never reeeivedde+
cent burial from the hands of It's friends and
mourners, the wings; but has been left to rot to
purify, and to contaminate the moral atmosphere
of the land. tGroans and hissesI Aye, AM
drew jackson was true to principles true u.s.
and we were true to him. We gave him a hear.
ty and triumphant support, the same support that
we will always give to the man who, elevated bY
our sufrages; conscientieusly aud determinedly
carries out our views. No man ever knew and
no man ever will know the Democracy falter or
shrink in nsustainng our faithful public servants
10 our public men we say----adhere to our princi-
pies and we will spurn you from US. No man.
however exalted by genius and elevated by station,
can do without the people half so we'll as the peo-
pie can do without him. Demagogues are apt to-
forget this truth. They conceive themselves with
their attendant train of satellites and wire puiersy
to be the people. AS long as they merely think
so without acting on the supposton, it is all well
enough. The moment they act under this false
belief, they are undeceived onlyto awake IN utter
and deserved ruin. When men prove recreant to
the trust reposed in them, as among others, Ma
thanfeEP. Tallmadge, present United States Scna-
tor, has done they must expect to have their ears
saluted with such music is made up of the
+ curses of hate and the Kisses of scorn. More
over they are sure receive the wages of poltic-
al death. fE4isses ''for all renegades."l
When our public men are true to us--true to-
those broad principles of equal rights and equal
laws which constitute our democratic cTeed--as
! Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Andrew
Jackson have bcen----and as Richard M. johnson,
Martin Van Bnren, John G. Calhoun and Silas
| Wright arewhenever and wherever they are as
sailed, we will rally around them to a man, and
Hereafter, when men speak of New Orleans and
Andrew Jaokson--when they contemplate his
consistent, disnihed and patriotic course Presi:
dent of the United States--when they CALI to mind
the oblequy and eontumely that poured upon him
as they remember the fact that in the midst Of
all this conflict he was deprived of the wife of his
bosom, she whom he had cherished with an ex-
ceeding tenderness, on whom he had lavished the
wealth of his affections, whom he had loved as
the strong man only can love--and as those me-
u1ories rise before then, they will feel as Halleck
did when he wrote his bea uful lines to the meme
~ of Burns----Fines thai will live forever
! Wiz soft tears dim the eye unsheds
! What wild vows falter on the tongue!
| When Scots who ha' VII Wallace bled, -
| Or auId lang syne is sung.
The sun is setting It's declining rays fall thro'
the easement on the bowed form Of one, who had
Il he been Roman, would have been the nobleSt
Roman of them all. Silent and alone he falls
into reverie. His eyes inVofuntarily close. And
the days of his youth come back upon him. His
countenance saddens as he feels that the voice Of
her, who is in heaven falls no longer on his ear.
Her form fits not by him on its thousand Gus
toned errands of domestic love- He is alone
but he rs not lonely-he reflects on his latter day
He rejoices in the contemplation Of the doctrines
of that holy christian faith which bids US live for
ever He is conscious that his sun is going down
: in peace. The air around him Is laden with the
blessings of grateful people, and every breeze
is vocal with his praises
Alt things wear IN him
An aspect Of eternity-hs thoughts, ~
His feelings, passions, good or evil,
Fl - Have nothing of old age; and his bold brow
Bears but the scars Of mind. the thoughts of years.
Not their decripitude.
When Andrew Jackson dies, he will have Left
i deathless lesson
D. A name which is virtue and soul,
! Which multplies itself throughout all time.
The rich inheritance of his virtues and his glory
/ is ours That inheritance we will cherish and
Idefend for ever Long may he live. But when
his spirit shall ascend to the God that gave it. the
whole land will rise up and call him blessed.
The manhood and the woraanhood Of this Repub-
lie will unite in the heartfelt and trusting prayer,
that when he appears at the bar of Omnipotcnce.
he will receive the salutation of Well DONE good
| and faithful servant" Loud and continued cheer
!: ing) One word more ,Iand have done. spoke
but a short time since of the Baltimore Conven-
ton, and spoke of its nominee; and now let me
speak for the assembled democracy of this fair
J, city, and say that whoever this nominee may be,
we will give him our united, our undivided, our
aIl-conquering support. Whether he be Lewis
Cass, of Mchigan---James Buchanan, of Pennsyl-
vania---the old Kentucky war horse, Richard M.
, Johnson---John G. Calhoun, Of South Carolina
or New York's favorite son, Martin Van Buren,
The principles which Andrew Jackson advocated
t from his boyhood to his more than three score
! years and ten, are once more at stake. Let Us,
E then, from this moment henceforth,
: Forgetting the feuds and the strife Of pasttiEne,
Counting coldness injustice, and silence crime,
! Vow to go into this coming Presidential canvass
with the stern resolve to do our duty-n the lar
e gest and widest sense of the term, and let the
v consequences take care Of themselves. II we do
this-if we fight this battle as it should be fought
e with honesty abiding energy, and an enthusiasm
5 tempered by cool, calm courage, we will tri-
n umph Do this, and even if we fail ; we will have
r no cause for selfaecpsation. And whatever the
result, we have one consolation vonehsafed to US
: and denied to opponents; and that is, the sun
v of Truth never set-the mists of prejudice
may arise and obscure its Faysthe clouds of error
s intervene and hide its beams-the tempests OF
faction and party hate shut out its genial and life
v bestowing. heat; but the mists will arise-the
n clouds will pass away-the tempest roll on aud
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