The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-03-16

Irish people lies in misgevernment and Oppressive laws
the exile seeks home and country elsewherei but
wherever he may be- wander where he will he never Tor
gets the mother who watched his infancy the compa
MEMS Of his youth the land Of toreaher Deprive
him OF every thing that renders life desrableimpsr his
health--strp him OF his propertytake friend and rela
i've from his side-steep him to the very lips in the
ali else but from hm his ovs
tryGrest cheers) That pure and unselish love will
purn but WIN brighter ray amid the atmosphere OF
penury ana prlvaon and the deah-damps OF despair.
Weaken his body by dsease-stretch him on the couch
of sickness and the bed of deathis thoughts far
awaythe home OF his childhood ats before his glazing
vsonand even as the parting spirit wings its flight,
still will his heart find echo cry of Erin Mavour
luton broke out and those poor Irish boys Joined the
American party Andrew being only IA years old The
III. battle of Stone The second was taken prisoner
treated rebel, thrown into dungeon uncared for,
and with his wounds undressed This brought in:
place. and he went home to die. This broke the mothers
heart and the closed her. il had done her
in the world In the emphatic language of the Indian
chstan not drop Of his blood ran in the veins of any
hs There is not time to follow step STEP
MS snerge.c onward career Poor, unfriended solitary,
uneducated despite all obstacles he worked his upward
way on how mysterious are the ways of Providence.
Had there been no Andrew Jackson, there would have
been no New Orleans And the crueltes and wrongs
inflicted by the British Government upon that poor
she has seen since Bannockburn, and were expiated
on the banks Of the Mississippi in the blood Of
ing. and stentoran shouts Of "old Hickory foreyerY
am not about enlarge upon the battle Of New Orleans
here who have not heard its story told , an
wellby Major Davezac -(Cheers) He an eye.wit-
and participation in the action II would be presump-
tous and unbecomng in to trespass ground Pc
culiarly his own Pass then in this rapid review
exultng 60 that democratic members In Con.
General Jackson the fine unjustly imposed upon him
by Judge Hail. The act has been carried into effect; and
the only leaf that was ever plucked from iGoud sn.
plause) There are many here who well remember how
Andrew Jackson has been assaled. Calumny and vitu
peraon exhausted their malice him-combnutions of
oiled political OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES disappointed In
their ambitious projec!sthe factions preudiced de-
signng-were banded together against our leader ana
threatened him with humiliation. They filed the air
with clanor but they howed and howed in around
that brave old hickory that struck its roots SO firmly
and well into the generous soil of democracy Cheers
Then the Of Andrew Jackson cloud by day.
and our pillar of fire by night He shield and
tanning and sustained, we grapped with the head and
front Of our mushroom moneyed arsocracy the United
States Bank and sranged the hydra not in its youth
in its old age but III the lusty prime Of its golden man
hood (Cheers Its defnnct carcase has received
decent burial from the hands Of its friends ane
andto contaminae the moral atmosphere OF the land
(Groans and hi'ses) Aye Andrew jackson true to
our principles true to us, and true to him. We
gave him hearty and triumphant support the sup
port that we will always give the who elevated
by sages conscientously and deterninedy carries
out views. No knew and no man ever viii
know the Democracy aer shrin, in sustaining our
faithful III public ssrvaIts TO our public men we saya
sert our principles and we will spurn you from No
man. however exalted by genius and elevated by station
do without him. Demagogues apt forget this truth
They conceive themselves with their attendant train OF
they merely think sowithout acting on the supposont
is all well enough. The moment they, act under this
false belief they nndeceived only to awake in utter
and deserved ruin. When men prove recreant to the
trust reposed in them among Others Nathaniel Tall.
madge United States Senator has DONE they must
expect to have their sauted with such music as is
made up Of the curses Of hate and the Kisses scorn
Moreover they sure to receive the wages of political
SIM which political DEATH isses 'for all renegades W
When public true to ustIue to those broad
principles of equal rights and equal laws which constitute
our democratic creed-as Thomas Jefferson, james Mod
ron and Andrew Jackson have been--and Richard NJ
Johnson Martin Van Buren,, John c. Calhoun and Slas
Wright are-whenever and wherever they are assaled
we will rally around them to num- and untedy and tr
umphantiy sustain them TO the last Hereafter when
men speak of New Orleans and Andrew Jackson-wheu
they eonte%pstSe his consistent dignhed and patriotic
to mind the obloquy and contumely that poured upon
him-as they remember the fact that in the midst of all
this conflict he deprived of the wife of his BOSOM she
whom he had cherished with exceeding tenderness on
whom he had avished the wealth of his affections whom
he had loved as the strong only can love-and as
those memories rise before them they win feel az iaeck
did when he wrote his beautiful lines TO the memory of
Burns-lnes that will live Tor ever
What soft tears dim the eve unshed
What wild vows falter on the tongue?
When Scots " no ha' wi Wallace bled,
Or auld lang syne /: sung
Picture him now IN the Hermitage The sun is setting
It's declining rays ia through thu the bowed
form OF one who had he been Roman would have been
the nobles Roman of them all Silent and alone he falls
days of his youth back upon him. His countenance
saddens he feels that the voceo her who lin heaven
falls no longer on his ear Her form fits not by him
its thousand customed errands of domestic love- He is
alonebut no not loney-he reflects his latter day.
He reoces in the contemplation of the doctrines OF that
holy christian faith, which bids live for He is
conscious that his sun Is going down peace The air
around him ia laden with the blessings of grateful peo
pie, and every breeze is vocal with his praises.
things n
An aspect OF eternity thoughts,
His feelings passions good OF evil
Have nothing of old age (; and his bold brow
Bears but the scars OF mind the thoughts of years.
Not their decrepitude.
When Andrew Jackson dies, he will have left
deathless lesson
name which is a virtue and soul,
Which multplies itself throughout all time.
The rich inheritance Of his virtues and his glory is
That Inheritance we will cherish and defend for
Long may he live. But hen his spirit shall ascend
the God that gave it, tho whole land will rise up and call
him blessed. The manhood and the womanhoo this
public viii unite in the heartfelt and trusting prayer
when he appears at the bar Of Omnipoence he will
ceive the sautaon Of Well done good and faithful
want" loud and continued cheerng.) One word more
and have done spoke but short time since of the Bel.
timore Convention, and spoke of its nominee and now
let me speak for the assembled democracy fair city,
and that whoever this nominee be- will give
him our united-our undivided-our allcoDquer ng sup
port loud cheers) Whether he be Lewis Cass of Mi
a-(Silence)-the old Kentucky war horse Richard NJ
Johnson-Q loud cheers) John c. Calhoun, of South
Caronha-Vouder cheers)-cr New forks favorite son,
Martin Van Buren, tremendous and deafening cheers
The principles which Andrew Jackson advocated from
his boyhood to his than three years ana ten
more at stake. Let then from this moment
henceforth
Forgetting the ieuds and the strife Of past time,
Counting, GOODNESS, injustice, silence a crime,
Vow to go into this coming Presidential canvass with the
stern resolve to do our duty-in the largest and
widest sense OF the term and let the consequences take
care of themselves If do this-if we fight this bat
tie as should be fought with honesty abiding energy,
and an enthusiasm tempered by cool, calm courage
will triumph. DO this and even if we fail we will have
no cause for sefaccusation And whatever the result
we have consolation vouchsufed and denied to
opponents and that ia, that the OF Truth
setthe mists Of prejudice may arise and obscure
its clouds of error intervene and hide its beams
the tempests Of faction and party hate shut out It's genial
clouds will pass away-ths tempest roll and be forgot
ten while the sum- the brighter and the dearer for his
temporary obscury will shine he shone Of yore--
to brighten, to gladden. to witty and to bless SO in
the physcal Wordso in the moralso in the political