The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-04-04

the ways Of Providence! Had there been no Andrew
jackson, there would have been no New Orleans. And
the crueles and wrong Inflicted BY the British Govern
ment upon that poor exled family ultimately Eng
land the saddest field thashe has seen since Bannoc
burn and were expagiaed on the banks of the Misss-
spp in the blood of Eve thousand OF her bravest Tire
mendous cheering and sentorian shouts OF old Hickory
fosever" am not about to enlarge upon the battle of
New Orleans Its history is familiar to you all There
very few here who have not heard its stbr told elo
qnenty and well by Major Davezac. ECheers9 He |
was eyewitness and participator in the action 1t
would be presumpous and unbecoming in me trespass
on ground so peculiarly his own Pass we then on in
this rapid review exuling go tha tour democrat
c members in Congress have procured the passage ola
law rembursng to Genera Jackson the fine so uniustly
imposed Upon him by Judge Hall The act has been
carried into effect and thus the connty has restored to
the slaureed brow the only leaf that was ever
plucked from it loud applause.] There are many
here who well remember how Andrew Jackson has
been assailed. Caumny and vituperation exhausted
their malice on Observation-Disclosures of toed political
disappointed in their ambitious
projects the factions prejudiced and desgningwere
banded together against leader and threatened him
with annihilalion. They filled the air with clamor, but
they hoWled and howled in vain around that brave old
hickory tree that struck its bots so firmly and SO well in
to the genial soil of democracy. Then was the name
of Andrew Jackson cloud by day. and our pillar Of
fire by night. He was our shield and sword, our Fa.
bius and Marcellus both. Mutually sustaining and
sustained grappled with the head and front of our
mushroom moneyed aristooacy, the United States
Bank and stranged the HYDRA not in its YOUTH nor in
its old age but in the lusty prime OF its golden man.
hood (Cheers Its defunct earcash has never recei-
we'd decent burial from the hands Of its friends and mour
ners the Whgsb ut has been left to rot to purify and
10 coutaminate the moral atmosphere OF the land
[Groans and hisses.] Aye Andrew Jackson was true
to our principles true to us, and we were true 10 him.
We gave him hearty and triumphant support the
same support that will always give to the man who
elevated by our sufages conscientously and detern
edly carries out our views No man ever knewand no
man ever will know the Democracy faler, or shrink in
sustaining our faithful public servants To our public
men we say adhere in our principles and we will ad-
here e pou Desert our principles and we will spun
you from us. No man. however exalted by genius and
elevated by statoh can do without the people half so
well as the people can do without him. Demagogues
are apto forget this truth They contrive themselves
with their attendant train ofsaelites and wirepullers
to be the people AS long they merely think sd with
out acting on the shpposition it is all welenough The
moment they act uEder this false belief they are unde-
ceved only to awake in utter and deserved ruin When
men prove recreat ID the trust feposed id het as a.
mong others, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, presen; U. S.
Saho0t nas dooa hey ,o,,et anoct 10 howe thn;r aorc
saued with such music is made up of the curses o
hate and the Kisses Of scorn Moreover they are sure
to receive the wages opoitical SIM which is political
death. [Hisses "for all renegades."l When our pub
lie men are true to ustrue to those broad principles
equal rights and equal laws which constitute our demo
cratic creedas Thomas Jefferson, James Madison ant
and Andrew Jackson have been--and ass Richard M
johnson, Martin Van Buren, John c. Calhoun and 81
lns Wright are--whenever and wherever they are as
sailed will rally around them te man, and united
ly and triumphanty sustain them to the last. There
after when men speak of New Orleans and Andrew
Jackson-when they contemplate his consistent, digni
fed and patriotic course as President of the Unitet
States-when they call to mind the obloquy and con
tumety that poured upon him; as they remember The
fact in the midst Of all this conflict he was deprived o
the wife of his BOSOM she whom ne had cherished with
an succeeding tenderness on whom he had lavishet
the wealth of his affections, whom he had loved as the
strong man only can loyeand as those memories Iist
before them, they viii feel as Haleck did wien it
wrote his beautiful lines to the memory Of BurnSlinc'
that will live for ever ,gr. s.E y
What soft tears dim the eyeunshed? 5fla
I What wild vows falter on the tonguel a
When, Scots wha ha' wa Wallace bled,
e.. Or auG lang syne is sung. IA -, %.
Picture him nowin the Hermitage, The sun is setting
Its declining rays fall through the easement on the bow
ed form Of one, who had he been Ronian would have
been the noblest Roman ofthem ALL Silent and alone
he falls into reYerie. His eyes involunary close
And the days Of his youth come back upon him. His
counenahce saddens as he feels that the voice of her
who is in heaven, fallsno longer on his ear Her form
fits not BY him on its thousand customed errands do
mesfc love- He is alone-but not ,lonely-he reflects
on his latter day. Hereioices in the contemplation Of
the doctrines Of that holy christian faith which BIDS
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, ahdeFeTy beexe is voca
with his praises.
ALL things wear in him
An aspect Of eternity his thoughts,
His feelings, passions good or evil ~ .,., 80
Have nothing ofold age; and his bold brow - + T.
Bears bht the scars Of mind, the thoughts ofyears
us Not theft decrephndea 1'.'
when Andrew jackson dies, he will have leit
2ns'i- - Ia deathless lesson
oab ma name which Is virtue and SOUL